Promised help for residents at a deteriorating mobile home park tabbed for redevelopment hasn't happened, so something new is needed.
Source: The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA)
Posted on: March 27, 2022
Register watchdog report leads to state investigation
Two state agencies and a non-profit legal aid organization for low-income residents are investigating property managers named in a Des Moines Register watchdog story for allegedly ignoring rental property defects.
Source: Des Moines Register
Posted on: March 21, 2022
Problems getting satisfaction in sexual harassment, assault instances at the University of Iowa
Many women reporting sexual assault or harassment at the University of Iowa say they’ve felt helpless going through the university’s system for resolving the complaints. Their stories, in The Daily Iowan.
Source: The Daily Iowan (Iowa City)
Posted on: November 29, 2021
How Title IX sexual harassment remedies pin no-contact enforcement on women who filed complaint
Women winning negotiated no-contact orders in college sexual harassment complaints still end up forfeiting opportunities when the alleged perpetrator shows up in the same room, the Grinnell College student newspaper reports.
Source: The Scarlet & Black (Grinnell)
Posted on: November 29, 2021
Interstate bridge busts budget
A new interstate highway bridge connecting Iowa and Illinois opens way over budget.
Source: Quad City Times
Posted on: November 18, 2021
Questions raised about successful bidder in Iowa prison study
The company hired to review security failures in Iowa's prison system did not disclose a lawsuit accusing it of bribery, plus other matters in its past, The Register reported.
Source: Des Moines Register
Posted on: November 15, 2021
A look at the criminal mind that robbed two Des Moines metro cops’ lives
The man who killed police officers from Urbandale and Des Moines five years ago was no criminal mastermind, just someone who wanted to kill recklessly, this Des Moines Register investigation shows.
Source: Des Moines Register
Posted on: November 1, 2021
Search warrant documents show police went to U of I fraternity in sex assault allegation probe
Documents The Daily Iowan obtained show police searched a University of Iowa fraternity last year in a case involving sexual assault allegations that have provoked demonstrations at the fraternity and elsewhere on campus.
Source: The Daily Iowan (Iowa City)
Posted on: September 3, 2021
Records show concern among Iowa public safety leaders about border trip
Iowa's public safety leaders had concerns about staffing levels at home and the costs of sending state troopers to the U.S.-Mexican border in Texas at a time when the state was not releasing details about the July trip. The story and copies of records.
Source: The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA)
Posted on: August 23, 2021
Iowa kept secret what it cost to send troopers to border when they had an early estimate
The Kim Reynolds administration kept secret estimates it had for sending state troopers to the U.S.-Mexican border, adding to open records disputes facing the state.
Source: Des Moines Register
Posted on: August 23, 2021