Opioid abuse, in the form of prescription painkillers and heroin, has contributed to a growing number of Iowa emergency room visits and overdose deaths in the past decade. Although some efforts are underway to counteract the trend, IowaWatch recently examined one life-saving measure — bills providin
Keith Rohl remembers the day he was asked to lease the coal rights to his farmland in Homer, Ill. It was 2009, a wet year for the crops, when he was lined up at the grain elevator with his neighbors hearing about the proposed Bulldog Mine for the first time. “The neighbors were all talking about, ‘Y
Despite links to health problems, including a World Health Organization report confirming that processed meats cause colorectal cancer, bacon has been popular enough in the last few years for pork industry workers to start referring to a “bacon tsunami.” The trend is good economic news for Iowa, the
New Hampshire and Iowa set the stage for passionate voter participation during the nation’s first presidential primary and first presidential precinct caucuses. Chalk it up to hotly contested nomination campaigns in both the Republican and Democratic parties.
For as long as Iowa has existed newspapers have recorded the events and people shaping communities, informing current residents but also leaving a history for future generations. But you might not be aware of a few things found in the history of Iowa newspapers.
IowaWatch reporters Hannah Soyer and Danielle Wilde, spoke with assistant editor/data analyst/reporter Lauren Mills about the experience of covering their first Iowa caucuses in this podcast.
Although agriculture is a $31 billion industry in Iowa, it’s a topic absent from this election season’s share of presidential stump speeches. That’s not all too surprising, though. Instead of getting involved in presidential elections, major agribusinesses have historically chosen to pump their mone
Maps provide a glance at the 2016 Caucus returns. A comparison of the Democratic votes in 2008 and 2016 show little consistency with counties won or lost by Clinton in the two caucuses.
Hillary Clinton came to Iowa in 2016 to exorcise what plagued her surprise 2008 failure to win the Democratic presidential precinct caucuses but end up with a fight on her hands. Bernie Sanders is making a strong push to be the Democratic presidential nominee.
Excitement and tension built as 284 people waited to see if the Democratic candidate they came out to support would take the majority number of delegates at precinct 36 in Cedar Rapids.
I went to the Republican caucus at the DoubleTree Convention Complex in Cedar Rapids preferring Rand Paul, but on a mission to prevent Donald Trump from winning the Republican nomination for president.
