IowaWatchers Lyle Muller, Lauren Mills, Sarah Hadley, Katie Kuntz, Stephen Gruber-Miller and Linh Ta were in Des Moines on Monday, Jan. 13, for the opening of the 2014 legislative
A lack of enforcement or inspections and legal loopholes are leaving migrant workers in Iowa vulnerable, cheated of wages and living in substandard housing. The problems include wage theft, broken contracts, substandard housing, working arrangement violations and Agricultural Workers Protection Act
The Fund for Investigative Journalism has awarded IowaWatch’s Lauren Mills a $2,500 grant to support an investigative project in the remainder of 2013 and early 2014.
“This kind
A California state court ruling against the lead paint industry broke the industry’s perfect record of defending suits by public agencies seeking to extract money for removal of flaking lead paint from older homes and apartments. Omaha-based ConAgra Grocery Products Co. is one of three defendants in
Each day hundreds of thousands on the first line of making sure we have food put their own lives at risk for our sustenance. One slip and their lives can be changed forever in a matter of seconds.
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Richard Tapscott, a respected Iowa journalist and original member of the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism board of directors, died of cancer Sunday. He was 65.
Tapscott was the
KCRG-TV9 news anchor Beth Malicki interviewed IowaWatch Executive Director-Editor Lyle Muller about the IowaWatch collaboration with four newspapers, “Iowa’s Opportunity Gap,” for her Nov. 17, 2013, public
Spouses of visiting students and scholars at Iowa's public universities often put their lives on hold, living in boredom unable to work or continue their own advanced studies in the United States.
WMT Radio’s Bob Bruce interviewed IowaWatch Executive Director-Editor Lyle Muller on Nov. 21 about IowaWatch’s series on farm safety, “In A Matter Of Seconds”. You can listen
New technology from drones to tractor rollover detection are aimed at keeping farmers out of dangerous situations. Drones, modified from their current military use, could be flying soon over Iowa corn fields, allowing farmers to check on growth from comfort and safety.
