The EPA and Army Corps of Engineers finalized the Waters of the U.S. rule on Wednesday. The agriculture industry and farmers have opposed the rule, calling it a Washington power grab. Although finalized, the rule still faces lawsuit threats and legislative obstacles.
It started with a short news clip.
On October 12, 2009, The Daily Iowan ran a 244-word brief saying that University of Iowa business student Jacques Similhomme, missing for
Today, even in areas where farming is a major industry, many are unfamiliar with farming. In Illinois, with less than 2 percent of Champaign's population involved in production agriculture, the Champaign County Farm Bureau has made it part of its mission to educate the community about the work being
It's been five years since the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism started producing in-depth news reporting...this week, we'll give you an update on some of the stories IowaWatch has covered, and we'll take a look ahead at what we'll all be talking about in the future.
Decoration Day (Memorial Day) in Iowa in the past was celebrated much as it was in other parts of the country—parades, picnics, speeches and church services. In Denison in 1911 Decoration Day was celebrated with a couple of baseball games between city teams. The Court House Rats defeated the Has Bee
Here's a challenge: go ask a bunch of 5-year-old kids what they want to be when they grow up. Spoiler alert: most kids probably aren't going to say biomedical engineer, computer scientist, or electrical engineer.
Some combination of fine arts, drama, theater, and visual and performing arts appears on almost every “worthless college major” list on the Internet. But theater students view their major as anything but worthless.
IowaWatch co-founder Stephen Berry and digital analyst/assistant editor Lauren Mills talked on the Tuesday, May 19, 2015, “Your Town” show on KXIC radio, AM 800, in Iowa City
A little more than five years ago a small group of forward-thinking people could only imagine what the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism with its news website, IowaWatch.org, would be. That changed on May 29, 2010, when the first IowaWatch story was published.
Succeeding in college is hard enough, but the challenges are even greater for a student with a hidden illness...one the rest of us cannot see, such as juvenile arthritis, autism, learning disabilities, depression or anxiety.
“As usual, this year’s class was the best in history.” The newspaper reporter who covered the Centerville High School class of 1896 must have been a cantankerous, but seasoned writer. And he certainly had attended more graduation ceremonies than he cared to in his lifetime.
Each year, state agencies and the federal government together send tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to some of the largest corporations in America, several of which are major agribusinesses. The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting explains.
