Yitong Ling would never have imagined her “super nice” friend Xiangnan Li would be the main person of interest in a suspicious murder case. Even so, Ling said she wasn’t surprised when the Iowa City Police Department released the news Monday, Sept. 29.
Democrat Jack Hatch’s gubernatorial campaign clearly has been in the kind of steep uphill climb you would expect when running against an incumbent like Republican Terry Branstad, especially when Branstad had 22 times more campaign money than Hatch had mid-summer.
IowaWatch co-founder Stephen Berry spoke recently on KXEL-AM 1540 radio in Waterloo, with IowaWatch Connection host Jeff Stein about IowaWatch and the upcoming Celebrating a Free Press and Open Government banquet, scheduled for Oct. 2, 2014, in Des Moines.
IowaWatch digital analyst/reporter Lauren Mills spoke on Beth Malicki's "To the Point" program on KCRG-TV9 for a program about her investigation into why the payday loan industry is not regulated more than it already is in Iowa.
The Republican and Democratic candidates for governor wasted no time digging into the merits of a $100 million tax break that lured a $1.6 billion fertilizer company to Lee County. Republican Gov. Terry Branstad and Democratic challenger state Sen. Jack Hatch also lobbed accusations of improper beha
KXIC host Jay Capron talked with Katelynn McCollough about sexual assaults on college campuses, including a 2013 story still relevant today about flaws in mandatory crime reporting on college campuses. Also on the show: an Amber Rouse story dealing with frac sand mining controversies in northeast Io
Parents who take out loans to help their kids pay growing student tuitions may end up in financial straits, with debts growing quickly with each student.
IowaWatch executive director-editor Lyle Muller talked on WMT radio host Bob Bruce’s Wednesday, Sept. 17, program about reporter Amber Rouse’s story about northeast Iowa residents’ fight to
IowaWatch executive director and editor Lyle Muller spoke on WHO radio, 1040 AM-Des Moines, on Sept. 5 about IowaWatch and the upcoming Celebrating a Free Press and Open Government Banquet, to be held in Des Moines on Oct. 2. Listen to the podcast.
NEWS21 REPORT: Idaho became the seventh state to allow "campus carry" in a movement gaining traction across the country, despite the often strenuous opposition of other students, faculty and campus administrators. Political battles are being fought in other states, too.
A group of northeast Iowans effectively is keeping large frac sand mine companies from mining silica-rich sand in their county by building a consortium that set aside politics and focused on dealing with the matter locally, instead of with state intervention.
