by O. Kay Henderson | Oct 24, 2022 | News, Politics & Government
Republican candidate Todd Halbur says his record as a state government whistleblower shows he has the courage to be state auditor. Halbur says as chief financial officer of the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division, he discovered the agency was overcharging Iowa...
by O. Kay Henderson | Oct 9, 2022 | News, Politics & Government
A jury has awarded the Republican candidate for state auditor $1 million in his wrongful termination lawsuit against the State of Iowa. Todd Halbur was hired to be the comptroller of the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division in 2015 and fired in mid-2018. Under...
by Matt Kelley | Oct 7, 2022 | Human Interest, News
A private story about a University of Iowa journalism professor’s journey to sobriety goes public in a book that will hit store shelves tomorrow. Don McLeese is being featured in this weekend’s Iowa City Book Festival and says his story is not about the...
by Radio Iowa Contributor | Sep 19, 2022 | Business, News
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig recently toured the Franklin Street Brewing Company in Manchester as part of a new state program. “We are in the process of launching a new Iowa branded program for Iowa made Iowa grown Iowa raised products and...
by Dar Danielson | Sep 6, 2022 | Human Interest, News
An Iowa State University Sociology professor finds a pandemic-related link between the increase in drinking among women. Susan Stewart starting looking at the increase in alcohol use among women before the COVID outbreak, and then refocused to look at the pandemic...