Lyle Muller

Farmland Ownership In the U.S., And How It Relates To Food Security

One important way to ensure food security in the United States is to keep farmland ownership from going into foreign hands. That doesn't always happen.

By Jeff Stein, Lyle Muller, Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest and Brant Houston

/ 24 Jul 2017

Farmland Ownership In the U.S., And How It Relates To Food Security

Podcast: Hot Political Rhetoric Remains After 2016 Election

The 2016 political campaign may be behind voters but the high awareness of its results and the rhetoric it spawned has, in many ways, not disappeared. This IowaWatch Connection radio report brings the voices of voters, post-election, to you.

By Lyle Muller, Chase Harrison, Jeff Stein and Leziga Barikor

/ 22 May 2017

Podcast: Hot Political Rhetoric Remains After 2016 Election

A Must-Hear Podcast If You Value Your Identity On The Internet

Think your identity is safe on the internet? Think again. This report reveals the work of reporters Madison Wilson, Erich Bogner, Clayton Bowers, Alex Kirkpatrick, Stephanie Woodruff, Ashley Smith and Hunter Hillygus.

By the IowaWatch Simpson College Journalism Project, Lyle Muller and Jeff Stein

/ 1 May 2017

A Must-Hear Podcast If You Value Your Identity On The Internet

Podcast: Why Investigative Journalism Matters

Seldom has so much attention focused on how journalists gather and report news. But news consumers in the 2010s want to know whether or not what they read or hear in the news is true and, in doing so, want to know why investigative reporters pursue stories.

By Jeff Stein, Stephen Berry and Lyle Muller

/ 3 Apr 2017

Podcast: Why Investigative Journalism Matters

Podcast: Coping With Contaminated Well Water Means Changing Habits

An IowaWatch report told how the Iowans drinking water from private wells may not know what is in their water because their wells’ water quality is unregulated. Yet, some well owners were not concerned about it. Iowans tell how they cope in this IowaWatch Connection podcast.

By Lauren Shotwell, Lyle Muller and Jeff Stein

/ 20 Mar 2017

Podcast: Coping With Contaminated Well Water Means Changing Habits

Podcast: Jobs On The Minds Of Upcoming College Graduates

Iowa's pending college graduates are looking for jobs but the Class of 2017 will enter a relatively flat job market for the fourth straight year, the National Association of College and Employers reports.

By Lyle Muller and Jeff Stein

/ 20 Feb 2017

Podcast: Jobs On The Minds Of Upcoming College Graduates

Podcast: Republicans Forge Ahead With Agenda In Iowa Legislature

Republicans, armed with firm control of the House, Senate and governor's office, came to the Statehouse in January with several bills that Democrats could block when they controlled the Senate in the last legislative session.

By Jeff Stein and Lyle Muller

/ 13 Feb 2017

Podcast: Republicans Forge Ahead With Agenda In Iowa Legislature

Thank You

It won’t count for the Knight News Match but your donation to IowaWatch always helps us produce strong investigative and collaborate journalism while training student journalists to do this

By Lyle Muller

/ 19 Jan 2017

Last Chance To Support IowaWatch With Knight News Match Donation Tonight

Today is the last day you can take advantage of the Knight News Match. Every $10 you donate becomes $20 for IowaWatch because of the Knight Foundation’s designation of IowaWatch as a worthy non-profit news organization.

By Lyle Muller

/ 18 Jan 2017

Last Chance To Support IowaWatch With Knight News Match Donation Tonight

Podcast: The Crusading Editor Verne Marshall And His War On Corruption in 1930s Iowa

He exposed corruption and helped his newspaper win a Pulitzer Prize in the 1930s. But how one-time Cedar Rapids Gazette Editor Verne Marshall did it was anything but ordinary. Listen to the IowaWatch Connection podcast.

By Lyle Muller and Jeff Stein

/ 16 Jan 2017

Podcast: The Crusading Editor Verne Marshall And His War On Corruption in 1930s Iowa

Branstad's Proposals To Get Scrutiny, Even With His Own Party In Control Of The Legislature

Enacting everything Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad wants will not be easy, even though his fellow Republicans listening to his Condition of the State address in Des Moines are predisposed to agree with it. And then there are the Democrats.

By Lyle Muller and Krista Johnson

/ 10 Jan 2017

Branstad's Proposals To Get Scrutiny, Even With His Own Party In Control Of The Legislature

Governor's Plan In Iowa For Trimming $110 Million From Current Budget

Iowa's largest stateagencies would bear most of the proposed $110 million in budget cuts for the current fiscal year that Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds sent to the Legislature for the 2017 legislative session.

By Lyle Muller

/ 10 Jan 2017