Listen to the Iowa Public Radio podcast that featured IowaWatch’s stories on college student depression. The IowaWatch portion follows a scathing critique of online journalism by media political economist
IowaWatch reporters Linh Ta and Rana Moustafa spoke with Iowa college students diagnosed with depression who said it impacted their performance in the classroom, but they often feared to reveal their struggles because of the stigma associated with the disease. Read and hear their stories in this com
California, the country’s largest agriculture producing state, needs a “miracle” to prevent a water crisis as the field crops and livestock there are in desperate need of water, a USDA official said. California is now listed in D4 (exceptional drought) category of the U.S. Drought Monitor. The state
This story is reprinted with permission from The Courier (Waterloo-Cedar Falls). Courier reporter Mike Anderson is a former IowaWatch reporter.
CEDAR FALLS — Depending on who you ask, the free
KXIC’s Jay Capron interviewed IowaWatch reporter Lauren Mills about her story on the hazardous materials we don’t know we are sharing Iowa roadways with when we are driving.
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
Farm deaths accounted for more than 30 percent of all occupational fatalities in Iowa between 2001 and 2011, an IowaWatch analysis of data from the Iowa Fatality Assessment and Control
The U.S. Department of Agriculture was forced to send home tens of thousands of employees because of Tuesday’s government shutdown.
As a result, the agriculture department and its
The fight to feel like a veteran weighs substantially on female soldiers returning from war, though their numbers have been historic, with more than 280,000 returning from deployments in
Some regional offices paid bonuses to VA workers while veterans waited for claims to be processed. At least costly efforts to go paperless have improved wait times. Your portal to these stories, plus several more in this special report from the News21 project, is here.
In 2010, more than 90 percent of the egg cartons containing the adulterated eggs again carried the U.S. Department of Agriculture grade mark for quality in one of the largest egg recalls in history.
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