Story includes a time lapse of an Iowa City graffiti artist at work and a photo gallery. Graffiti art is many things to many people, ranging from art to vandalism, but sometimes both. “People have always written on walls,” says Kembrew McLeod, an associate professor of communication studies at the U
IowaWatch Executive Director-Editor Lyle Muller was a guest on the Thursday, June 13, Bob Bruce radio show on WMT radio (AM 600) in Cedar Rapids. The topics covered were:
Spending in Iowa’s recent state Supreme Court retention election was the fifth highest of 10 high-profile state supreme court races in 2012 and 2013, a new investigation shows. A Center for Public Integrity investigation shows out-of-state influence likely helped decide races in Iowa, North Carolina
The punishment was doled out with little warning in a 12-4 party line vote of the Wisconsin Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee, with Republicans holding the majority. At about
The Wisconsin State Legislature Joint Finance Committee’s precipitant vote taken shortly after dawn on June 5 to expel the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism from the University of Wisconsin and bar university employees from working with the organization is an attack on freedom of the pre
IowaWatch Executive Director-Editor Lyle Muller will be a guest questioner in a legislative forum at 2 p.m. Monday, June 10, at the Coralville Public Library.
The forum, organized
A major environmental threat has emerged as factory farms take over more and more of the nation’s livestock production: Pollution from the waste produced by the immense crush of animals. Iowa has more of the massive livestock feeding lots, known as concentrated animal feeding operations, or CAFOs, t
Livestock industry groups applauded the Environmental Protection Agency’s retreat last year from establishing an information-gathering rule.
Michael Formica, of the National Pork Producers’ Council, said the rule simply
A poll from the nonprofit media watchdog iMediaEthics shows a majority of Americans support allowing immigrants who entered the United States illegally to stay in the country if otherwise following the law, but opinions on granting citizenship or permanent residency are tightly split. View the entir
When it comes to telling voters who is spending money on political ads, Iowa fails.
It got an “F” in a recent study on state disclosure policies for political spending
IowaWatch staff reporter Lauren Mills spoke on Jay Capron’s KXIC, AM-800, radio show on Tuesday, May 7, about IowaWatch and its story about the college-related debt facing
IowaWatch project with college student journalists in Iowa shows that, despite growing numbers of state and federal programs aimed at improving students' financial literacy and years of talk about Iowa's high student debt, students continue to graduate with debt that will follow them long after they
