Story includes a time lapse of an Iowa City graffiti artist at work and a photo gallery. Graffiti art is many things to many people, ranging from art to vandalism, but sometimes both. “People have always written on walls,” says Kembrew McLeod, an associate professor of communication studies at the U
IowaWatch Executive Director-Editor Lyle Muller was a guest on the Thursday, June 13, Bob Bruce radio show on WMT radio (AM 600) in Cedar Rapids. The topics covered were:
Beef Products, Inc. gained national media attention last fall when it filed the lawsuit against ABC News. BPI claims that ABC’s coverage of lean finely textured beef was unfair and led to the closure of three plants and loss of work for more than 700 BPI employees. Now the case is back in a South Da
In a review of some 600 swine slaughtering plants, the Office of the Inspector General focused on 30 plants that raised red flags. Onsite visits by the OIG revealed inspectors were not following proper steps to ensure diseased meat does not enter the food supply.
Spending in Iowa’s recent state Supreme Court retention election was the fifth highest of 10 high-profile state supreme court races in 2012 and 2013, a new investigation shows. A Center for Public Integrity investigation shows out-of-state influence likely helped decide races in Iowa, North Carolina
The punishment was doled out with little warning in a 12-4 party line vote of the Wisconsin Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee, with Republicans holding the majority. At about
Last year, Monsanto quietly halted production on genetically modified corn in most of Europe. The decision followed a move by Monsanto to withdraw testing of five new varieties of genetically modified corn that was resistant to the herbicide Round-Up by 2012. The company asked to keep trial results
The Wisconsin State Legislature Joint Finance Committee’s precipitant vote taken shortly after dawn on June 5 to expel the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from the University of Wisconsin and bar university employees from working with the organization is an attack on freedom of the pre
An investigation by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting and Connectas into the ethanol industry's lobbying has found that over the last five years the industry -its companies and associations- has spent around $150 million between 2008 and 2012 - up $10 million a year than in previous
As factory farms in Minnesota and elsewhere take over more and more of the nation’s livestock production, a major environmental threat has emerged: pollution from the waste produced by the immense crush of animals.
IowaWatch Executive Director-Editor Lyle Muller will be a guest questioner in a legislative forum at 2 p.m. Monday, June 10, at the Coralville Public Library.
The forum, organized
More than two dozens journalists from throughout the U.S. gathered in Champaign, IL for an intense three-day workshop on covering big agribusiness companies. Review sessions, resources and tip sheets here.
