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Volatile market leads to lower crop insurance premiums for farmers

Thanks to a drop in market volatility and grain prices, farmers may pay up to 10 percent less this year for crop insurance.

By Emily Scott/for The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 11 May 2016

Volatile market leads to lower crop insurance premiums for farmers

Search For Civil Speech On College Campuses Collides With First Amendment

An IowaWatch college media journalism project in late winter and early spring found a general aversion to limiting speech and expression on several Iowa campuses but willingness among some to regulate speech – hate speech for instance – that threatens someone. One of several stories in this report.

By Nicholas Fisher, Clinton Olsasky, Krista Johnson and Lyle Muller

/ 2 May 2016

Search For Civil Speech On College Campuses Collides With First Amendment

Medical Cannabis Expansion Bid Needs Rally To Pass In Iowa This Year

The future of another legislative attempt to allow medicinal marijuana manufacturers and dispensaries in the state is uncertain, with some legislators skeptical about whether or not the next steps to pass a bill will happen.

By Krista Johnson

/ 14 Apr 2016

Medical Cannabis Expansion Bid Needs Rally To Pass In Iowa This Year

IowaWatch Connection Podcast: Voter Dissatisfaction Disrupting Presidential Nominations

Iowans had some clear ideas about what they wanted the current slate of candidates to do once in office. Now, as the prospect of one or even two open conventions is upon us, was anyone listening?

By Jeff Stein

/ 11 Apr 2016

IowaWatch Connection Podcast: Voter Dissatisfaction Disrupting Presidential Nominations

IowaWatch Sunshine Week Report: The Cost Of Uncertainty In Iowa’s Public Record Laws

Costs and time spent defining what qualifies as an open record in Iowa are the biggest impediments to gaining access to information about how government functions and the way public money is spent. The cluster of rules defining public records in Iowa can be confusing or leave room for uncertainty. W

By Lauren Mills

/ 13 Mar 2016

IowaWatch Sunshine Week Report: The Cost Of Uncertainty In Iowa’s Public Record Laws

IowaWatch Connection Podcast: Reflecting On The Iowa Caucuses Post-Super Tuesday

It's been a month since Iowans caucused. How do Iowa's results look now that more than a quarter of the country has indicated its presidential preference?

By Jeff Stein and Lyle Muller

/ 7 Mar 2016

IowaWatch Connection Podcast: Reflecting On The Iowa Caucuses Post-Super Tuesday

USDA rules would increase food stamp access to healthy foods – Fit for Life

The Agriculture Department unveiled new rules on Tuesday that would force retailers who accept food stamps to stock a wider variety of healthy foods or face the loss of business

By Investigate Midwest staff

/ 17 Feb 2016

Candidate Takeaways After Iowa And New Hampshire: Heed the Voters, Feed The Passion

New Hampshire and Iowa set the stage for passionate voter participation during the nation’s first presidential primary and first presidential precinct caucuses. Chalk it up to hotly contested nomination campaigns in both the Republican and Democratic parties.

By Lyle Muller, IowaWatch and Nancy West/InDepthNH.org

/ 10 Feb 2016

Candidate Takeaways After Iowa And New Hampshire: Heed the Voters, Feed The Passion

ADM, Monsanto campaign dollars fuel congress, not presidents

Although agriculture is a $31 billion industry in Iowa, it’s a topic absent from this election season’s share of presidential stump speeches. That’s not all too surprising, though. Instead of getting involved in presidential elections, major agribusinesses have historically chosen to pump their mone

By Robert Holly/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 3 Feb 2016

ADM, Monsanto campaign dollars fuel congress, not presidents

Clinton Finds Herself Answering To Other Democrats As Well As Republicans After Iowa

Hillary Clinton came to Iowa in 2016 to exorcise what plagued her surprise 2008 failure to win the Democratic presidential precinct caucuses but end up with a fight on her hands. Bernie Sanders is making a strong push to be the Democratic presidential nominee.

By Lyle Muller, Clinton Olsasky, Brittany Robb and Krista Johnson

/ 2 Feb 2016

Clinton Finds Herself Answering To Other Democrats As Well As Republicans After Iowa

Democratic Caucus-Goer Takes You Inside His Precinct

Excitement and tension built as 284 people waited to see if the Democratic candidate they came out to support would take the majority number of delegates at precinct 36 in Cedar Rapids.

By Todd Cross

/ 2 Feb 2016

Democratic Caucus-Goer Takes You Inside His Precinct

Republican Paul Supporter Considers Cruz To Beat Trump, Stays With Paul

I went to the Republican caucus at the DoubleTree Convention Complex in Cedar Rapids preferring Rand Paul, but on a mission to prevent Donald Trump from winning the Republican nomination for president.

By Billie Barker

/ 2 Feb 2016

Republican Paul Supporter Considers Cruz To Beat Trump, Stays With Paul

Volatile market leads to lower crop insurance premiums for farmers

Search For Civil Speech On College Campuses Collides With First Amendment

Medical Cannabis Expansion Bid Needs Rally To Pass In Iowa This Year

IowaWatch Connection Podcast: Voter Dissatisfaction Disrupting Presidential Nominations

IowaWatch Sunshine Week Report: The Cost Of Uncertainty In Iowa’s Public Record Laws

IowaWatch Connection Podcast: Reflecting On The Iowa Caucuses Post-Super Tuesday

USDA rules would increase food stamp access to healthy foods – Fit for Life

Candidate Takeaways After Iowa And New Hampshire: Heed the Voters, Feed The Passion

ADM, Monsanto campaign dollars fuel congress, not presidents

Clinton Finds Herself Answering To Other Democrats As Well As Republicans After Iowa

Democratic Caucus-Goer Takes You Inside His Precinct

Republican Paul Supporter Considers Cruz To Beat Trump, Stays With Paul

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