Reports - Investigate Midwest (Page 2)

From Refugee Camp to Iowa, Plus Prepping For A Story 40 Years Later

The Pulau Bidong camp, where the Nguyen family lived for six months, was only 1 square kilometer in area and housed approximately 18,000 Vietnamese refugees by January 1979. After the Nguyens moved to Iowa that number continued to grow.

By Clare McCarthy/Special to IowaWatch

/ 2 Jun 2016

From Refugee Camp to Iowa, Plus Prepping For A Story 40 Years Later

Open Arms In Iowa: How A News Report Brought Back Memories Of Iowa's Vietnamese Refugee Relief

Saigon had fallen and Vietnamese refugees needed a new home. Iowa opened its arms in the 1970s. A former IowaWatch reporter's story rekindled memories for one Iowan whose family took in some of those refugees. This five-part series by Clare McCarthy tells that story.

By Clare McCarthy/Special to IowaWatch

/ 26 May 2016

Open Arms In Iowa: How A News Report Brought Back Memories Of Iowa's Vietnamese Refugee Relief

Iowa's Judicial Branch Flunks Transparency Survey Despite Landmark Reports Availability

Iowa’s Judicial Branch flunked a recent transparency and accountability study because of barriers to public access to information, a lack of legal requirements for judicial evaluations and issues surrounding potential conflicts of interest. They include limited access judicial officers’ asset disclo

By Lauren Mills

/ 3 Dec 2015

Iowa's Judicial Branch Flunks Transparency Survey Despite Landmark Reports Availability

Iowa Flunks Integrity Test When Keeping Tabs On Special Interests

Iowa’s practices to ensure transparency in lobbying earned an F in a recently released State Integrity Investigation by the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative journalism organization.

By Lauren Mills

/ 9 Nov 2015

Iowa Flunks Integrity Test When Keeping Tabs On Special Interests

Iowa Draws A Lowly D+ In New Government Transparency Report

The fact that state authorities sought to obstruct disclosure of a police shooting in Burlington explains, in part, why Iowa received an overall grade of D+ in a 2015 State Integrity Investigation conducted by the Center for Public Integrity and Global Integrity.

By Lauren Mills/Center for Public Integrity

/ 9 Nov 2015

Iowa Draws A Lowly D+ In New Government Transparency Report

Only three states score higher than D+ in State Integrity Investigation; 11 flunk

The 2015 State Integrity Investigation, a data-driven assessment of state government, found that in state after state, open records laws are laced with exemptions and part-time legislators and agency officials engage in glaring conflicts of interests and cozy relationships with lobbyists. Meanwhile,

By Nicholas Kusnetz/Center for Public Integrity

/ 9 Nov 2015

Only three states score higher than D+ in State Integrity Investigation; 11 flunk

About The State Integrity Investigation

The State Integrity Investigation is an in-depth collaboration designed to assess transparency, accountability, ethics and oversight in state government, spotlight the states that are doing things right and expose practices that undermine trust in state capitals.

By Nicholas Kusnetz/Center for Public Integrity

/ 9 Nov 2015

Methodology: How We Investigated State Integrity

The State Integrity Investigation assesses the existence, effectiveness, and accessibility (i.e. citizen access) of key governance and anti-corruption mechanisms through a qualitative and indicator-based research process.

By Nicholas Kusnetz/Center for Public Integrity

/ 9 Nov 2015

Inside The Reporter's Notebook: Reporters Explain The Register's Forfeiture Law Abuse Investigation

In an IowaWatch interview, Des Moines Register reporter Jason Clayworth discusses the premise behind the newspaper's investigation into abuses of property forfeitures in Iowa. Part of a series of IowaWatch examinations of investigative reporting in Iowa.

By Clare McCarthy

/ 23 Jun 2015

Inside The Reporter's Notebook: Reporters Explain The Register's Forfeiture Law Abuse Investigation

Plenty Of 2015 College Grads Will Continue Exodus Trend From Iowa

Iowa’s population has remained largely stagnant over several decades and, despite state efforts to entice young workers to stay, many Iowa college graduates leaving the state are keeping it that way.

By Lauren Mills

/ 10 May 2015

Plenty Of 2015 College Grads Will Continue Exodus Trend From Iowa

College Student Barriers, Texting While Driving, Payday Loans: IowaWatch’s Most Read Stories of 2014

The IowaWatch stories you read most in 2014 ranged from troubles Chinese students have adjusting to life at the University of Iowa to the payday loan trap many enter in Iowa.

By IowaWatch

/ 30 Dec 2014

College Student Barriers, Texting While Driving, Payday Loans: IowaWatch’s Most Read Stories of 2014

Matter of Seconds: Injury And Death On America's Farms

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.

By Lauren Mills and Sarah Hadley

/ 16 Dec 2013

Matter of Seconds: Injury And Death On America's Farms