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# Listen To The KXIC Podcast: Regular IowaWatch Appearance Features Investigation Into Lake Algae
- URL: https://www.investigatemidwest.org/listen-to-the-kxic-podcast-regular-iowawatch-appearance-features-investigation-into-lake-algae/
- Published: 2015-08-19T12:16:20.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-11T02:40:48.000Z
- Description: IowaWatch assistant editor and data analyst Lauren Mills and Iowa City Press-Citizen reporter Stephen Gruber-Miller were guests on the Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, "Your Town" segment of Jay Capron's morning show on KXIC radio, AM 800, in Iowa City.
- Author: IowaWatch
- Tags: Blog, Investigate Midwest News, iowawatch, Iowa City Press-Citizen, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, water quality, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-06-18 04:56

[![A yellow sign at the base warns swimmers of high levels of microcystin, a liver toxin produced by cyanobacteria in the North Twin Lake on July 30, 2015.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/cd/d3/cdd3c059-8898-40b1-bcf7-cb2d3aa89775/content/images/2026/09/TwinLakesWestBeach.jpg)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/cd/d3/cdd3c059-8898-40b1-bcf7-cb2d3aa89775/content/images/2026/09/TwinLakesWestBeach.jpg?ref=investigatemidwest.org)

A yellow sign at the base warns swimmers of high levels of microcystin, a liver toxin produced by cyanobacteria in the North Twin Lake on July 30, 2015.

IowaWatch assistant editor and data analyst Lauren Mills and *Iowa City Press-Citizen* reporter Stephen Gruber-Miller were guests on the Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, “Your Town” segment of Jay Capron’s morning show on KXIC radio, AM 800, in Iowa City.

They talked about a collaboration in which Mills wrote about the [growing intensity of algae](https://investigatemidwest.org/severity-of-algae-in-iowa-lakes-is-on-the-rise/?ref=investigatemidwest.org) in Iowa’s lakes and Gruber-Miller, an IowaWatch reporter before joining the *Press-Citizen*, wrote about the condition of [lakes in the Iowa City area](https://investigatemidwest.org/busy-coralville-lake-algae-levels-safe-battle-continues-at-eastern-iowa-recreation-areas/?ref=investigatemidwest.org).

Capron welcomes IowaWatch each month to talk about the nonprofit news organization. You may listen to the latest interview at the link below but you have to go forward 18 minutes into the hour to hear the segment with IowaWatch.

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