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IowaWatch Connection Podcast: Legislature Reaches Key Tax Deal, Education Funding Still Uncertain

The tenth week of the 2016 legislative session is over, with surprising breakthroughs on budget issues just before the second funnel deadline.

By Jeff Stein

/ 14 Mar 2016

IowaWatch Connection Podcast: Legislature Reaches Key Tax Deal, Education Funding Still Uncertain

IowaWatch Sunshine Week Report: The Cost Of Uncertainty In Iowa’s Public Record Laws

Costs and time spent defining what qualifies as an open record in Iowa are the biggest impediments to gaining access to information about how government functions and the way public money is spent. The cluster of rules defining public records in Iowa can be confusing or leave room for uncertainty. W

By Lauren Mills

/ 13 Mar 2016

IowaWatch Sunshine Week Report: The Cost Of Uncertainty In Iowa’s Public Record Laws

IowaWatch Connection Podcast: Reflecting On The Iowa Caucuses Post-Super Tuesday

It's been a month since Iowans caucused. How do Iowa's results look now that more than a quarter of the country has indicated its presidential preference?

By Jeff Stein and Lyle Muller

/ 7 Mar 2016

IowaWatch Connection Podcast: Reflecting On The Iowa Caucuses Post-Super Tuesday

Critics: State’s plan to save bees provides little protection from pesticides

Wisconsin has become a hard place to be a bee.

By Marion Ceraso/WisconsinWatch.org

/ 25 Feb 2016

Critics: State’s plan to save bees provides little protection from pesticides

Book By Iowa Stories Author Cheryl Mullenbach Selected For Notable Social Studies List

The Great Depression for Kids: Hardship and Hope in 1930s America, by Cheryl Mullenbach, has made the list of Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2016.

By IowaWatch

/ 25 Feb 2016

Book By Iowa Stories Author Cheryl Mullenbach Selected For Notable Social Studies List

$72 Million Courtroom Loss For Johnson & Johnson in Talc-Ovarian Cancer Case

Johnson & Johnson has suffered a major courtroom defeat in the first in a wave of lawsuits claiming that talc products marketed by the company for feminine hygiene use caused ovarian cancer, this Fairwarning.org report says.

By Myron Levine/Fairwarning.org

/ 24 Feb 2016

$72 Million Courtroom Loss For Johnson & Johnson in Talc-Ovarian Cancer Case

Podcast Link: The Importance Of Investigative Reporting

Iowa Public Radio examined the importance of investigative journalism, nationally and in Iowa, during its Tuesday, Feb. 23, "River to River" program and included IowaWatch Executive Director-Editor Lyle Muller, IowaWatch board member Andy Hall and Jason Clayworth, investigative reporter at The Des M

By IowaWatch

/ 23 Feb 2016

Podcast Link: The Importance Of Investigative Reporting

Water Issues Inspired University of Iowa Dance Program

Water — how it moves, its environmental and health impacts and its cultural significance —inspired upcoming performances by the University of Iowa Dancers in Company. The performance, called "Water Works," is based on water quality research and dips a toe into an emotionally fraught conversation tha

By Lauren Mills

/ 18 Feb 2016

Water Issues Inspired University of Iowa Dance Program

USDA rules would increase food stamp access to healthy foods – Fit for Life

The Agriculture Department unveiled new rules on Tuesday that would force retailers who accept food stamps to stock a wider variety of healthy foods or face the loss of business

By Investigate Midwest staff

/ 17 Feb 2016

Credit demand rises in U.S. farm economy as incomes fall | Reuters

Demand for bank loans, loan extensions and renewals is surging among U.S. farmers, and farm incomes are forecast to fall for a third year, as grain and livestock prices remain stubbornly low, according to reports from Federal Reserve Banks on Thursday.

By Investigate Midwest staff

/ 16 Feb 2016

IowaWatch Gains Two Major Grants, Matching Funds Needed With One

The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism—IowaWatch has received two major grants for operating expenses in 2016: $75,000 from the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation and $10,000 from The Gazette Co.

By IowaWatch

/ 16 Feb 2016

IowaWatch Gains Two Major Grants, Matching Funds Needed With One

IowaWatch Joins Iowa Freedom Of Information Council

The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch has joined the Iowa Freedom of Information Council as a First Amendment member because it matches the center’s goal of shining a spotlight on institutions and people who have authority over public policies, trends and events.

By IowaWatch

/ 15 Feb 2016

IowaWatch Joins Iowa Freedom Of Information Council