Taxpayers are contributing billions more than necessary for farmers’ crop insurance, according to a new report from the Environmental Working Group (EWG). The study, which examined the 2012 crop year, argues that big subsidies channel farmers into lavish policies that in some cases paid drought-affl
IowaWatch Executive Director-Editor Lyle Muller spoke on Jay Capron’s KXIC, AM-800, radio show on Tuesday, April 30, about IowaWatch and its story about the job prospects facing
Iowa's public universities are getting emergency safety alerts out to students, but how they do it is different on each campus. And the effectiveness of some kinds of communication comes into question, especially when it comes to reaching students by their prime mean of communication: mobile.
IowaWatch project by Iowa college journalism students explores a variety of options facing spring 2013 college graduates in Iowa, shows that multiple internships and work experience while in college give you a leg up on the others. Additional story: Personal Experiences Drive Career Choice for Mount
Imagine Upton Sinclair with an iPhone. Sinclair went undercover in 1904 to document squalid conditions in Chicago's meatpacking plants, leading to his muckraking novel The Jungle. His reporting led to new public health laws two years later. In today's social media world, Upton's expose would have go
WITH IOWA DATA. The primary way children still are exposed to lead paint is from paint in the walls at home, public health historians Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner say in this FairWarning interview.
The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism has launched a yearlong campaign to attract 1,000 individual and corporate donors.
The Center, founded in 2010 and distributing news through its
The Post 9/11 G.I. Bill promises a college education, paid in full, for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Getting that promise fulfilled however, is difficult for some Iowa veterans whose payments arrive as many as two months later than expected, leaving them struggling to pay for housin
IowaWatch summer intern Katelynn McCollough has been selected to be the next editor in chief of the Iowa State Daily, and IowaWatch staffer Linh Ta has been selected to be
A look into the practices of the Agricultural Marketing Service found a lack of overview of the "Beef Board" management unless a complaint or issue "arose". The lack of a management review revealed that funds collected, distributed and expended were not transparent, according to federal audit releas
