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Podcast: Iowa Democrats Take Hard Look At Presidential Precinct Caucuses

One of the more dramatic suggestions for the Iowa Democratic Party's next presidential precinct caucuses is letting people who cannot attend still register their preference for president. Whether that becomes the game plan for the 2020 caucuses is to be determined.

By Jeff Stein

/ 19 Jun 2017

Podcast: Iowa Democrats Take Hard Look At Presidential Precinct Caucuses

Trump Presidency Revives Iowa College Campus Political Interest But Discourse Can Be Harsh

If the law of supply and demand applied to the marketplace of ideas like it does to economics, political opinions wouldn’t be worth a plug nickel.They are everywhere, more so than ever since the election of Donald J. Trump to the U.S. presidency and especially on Iowa’s college campuses.

By Julia Davis, Leziga Barikor, Susan Haack and Stephen J. Berry

/ 7 May 2017

Trump Presidency Revives Iowa College Campus Political Interest But Discourse Can Be Harsh

Watch Iowans Tell You About Post-Election Rhetoric On Their College Campuses

In their own words, students and faculty at Iowa colleges and universities reveal whether or not rhetoric on their campuses has calmed since the November presidential election.

By IowaWatch/College Media Journalism Project

/ 7 May 2017

Iowans With Critical Mental Health Illness Struggle In System Called A 'Crisis' And 'Failing Iowans'

At first, Leslie Carpenter thought her son Patrick was on drugs. She was at home in Iowa City with her husband and about to go to bed when the phone rang. It was Patrick. “Mom, I died. I’ve been reborn,” the 19-year-old told her. “I’m God. We need to go, and I need you to take me to see Obama and Op

By Julia Davis

/ 5 Apr 2017

Iowans With Critical Mental Health Illness Struggle In System Called A 'Crisis' And 'Failing Iowans'

U.S. Labor Department Silent About Enforcement

OSHA has stopped issuing announcements of enforcement actions. One involving John Deere was made public, though, before a news blackout coinciding with the new Trump Administration began, Fairwarning.org reports.

By Paul Feldman/FairWarning.org

/ 2 Mar 2017

U.S. Labor Department Silent About Enforcement

Branstad's Proposals To Get Scrutiny, Even With His Own Party In Control Of The Legislature

Enacting everything Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad wants will not be easy, even though his fellow Republicans listening to his Condition of the State address in Des Moines are predisposed to agree with it. And then there are the Democrats.

By Lyle Muller and Krista Johnson

/ 10 Jan 2017

Branstad's Proposals To Get Scrutiny, Even With His Own Party In Control Of The Legislature

Governor's Plan In Iowa For Trimming $110 Million From Current Budget

Iowa's largest stateagencies would bear most of the proposed $110 million in budget cuts for the current fiscal year that Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds sent to the Legislature for the 2017 legislative session.

By Lyle Muller

/ 10 Jan 2017

Governor's Plan In Iowa For Trimming $110 Million From Current Budget

OSHA’s Wall of Shame: With Limited Staff, Agency Targets 'Severe Violators'

Six years into a national severe violator program – arguably the broadest workplace safety initiative launched during the Obama administration – more than 500 businesses are on a list of bad actors, this Fairwarning.org report reveals.

By Paul Feldman and Stuart Silverstein/ FairWarning

/ 23 Dec 2016

IowaWatch Connection Podcast: Successes And Controversies Of Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad

Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad will step down in 2017 to become the U.S. Ambassador to China after President-elect Donald Trump's nomination of him to the post is confirmed. This IowaWatch Connection podcast report looks at that career that made Branstad the longest-serving governor in American history.

By Jeff Stein

/ 12 Dec 2016

IowaWatch Connection Podcast: Successes And Controversies Of Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad

Three Questions That Explain Iowa's, and Terry Branstad's, Tie To China

Iowa, and in particular, Gov. Terry Branstad, have built significant economic and diplomatic relationships with China since the 1980s. Learn more in this news quiz about Iowa-Chinese relations.

By IowaWatch

/ 7 Dec 2016

Three Questions That Explain Iowa's, and Terry Branstad's, Tie To China

Podcast: Looking Forward After The 2016 Elections In Iowa

owa voters have spoken, and loudly. Beyond the high-profile presidential election, though, they shifted the balance of power inside the state, too. What will the change in control of the Iowa Senate mean for public policy in Iowa?

By Jeff Stein and Lyle Muller

/ 14 Nov 2016

Podcast: Looking Forward After The 2016 Elections In Iowa

Clinton Drops 32 Iowa Counties Obama Won In 2012

The loss of 32 Iowa counties that voted Democratic in 2012 gave the Republican nominee Donald Trump the state’s six electoral votes. While Barack Obama was able to win the state with 37 counties in 2012, Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton claimed just six, an IowaWatch review of the Tuesday’s prelim

By Krista Johnson

/ 9 Nov 2016

Clinton Drops 32 Iowa Counties Obama Won In 2012