WMT radio’s Bob Bruce featured the investigative story by IowaWatch and four Iowa newspapers about waiting times facing the state’s war veterans who try to get U.S.
An IowaWatch story written by Lauren Mills has been awarded 10th place in the William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s 2012-2013 Enterprise Writing Competition. Mills wrote the winning “The Story
The numbers were available: Iowa veterans were waiting at the end of 2012, on average, 313 days before the Department of Veterans Affairs processed their benefit claims. Less than a year, but more than 10 months. After returning from war, with disabilities. But what did those numbers mean?
IowaWatch, The Daily Iowan, and The Iowa State Daily called Iowa Legislators throughout the state and asked their opinions on a proposed tuition freeze for state universities.
This data was gathered by political science professors Keith Poole from the University of Georgia, Howard Rosenthal from New York University and Jeff Lewis from UCLA using DW-Nominate scores.
The University of Iowa has selected IowaWatch’s Emily Hoerner to give the student commencement address during the winter graduation ceremony Dec. 15 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
The university informed
Over 100,000 American horses – race horses, ranch horses, teaching stable horses - are eaten abroad every year. And there’s evidence that some of those horses are slipping through inspection cracks in Canada and making their way, along with their toxic drug residue, into the European market.
This week, the Kansas Cit Star released a three-part series on the beef industry after a year-long investigation. Harvest Public Media contributed to the project and produced several radio stories on the topic, including an interview with project reporter Mike McGraw.
In a year-long investigation, The Kansas City Star found a beef industry with hidden health hazards. The resulting project is a three-part series published this week.
