Lyle Muller Doesn't Have a Fancy Column Title Podcast

Several of the Midwest’s Major League sports teams have community-building philanthropies and donate raffle items, like tickets and team memorabilia, to the Iowa Children’s Museum. The museum uses the items as giveaways in major fundraising events, like the winter Celebrate Play Gala and spring Iowa Children’s Open golf tournament. This podcast brings to life the people interviewed for the written...

This podcast also appeared at the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative Emerging Journalist Corps website . Go here to learn more about this effort to showcase reporting by young Iowans. Avery Dykstra, a University of Northern Iowa student in her first year of college but with sophomore standing, felt a strong motivation for writing an Iowa Writers’ Collaborative Emerging Journalist Corps story about energy...

The following is a transcript of this podcast, if you want to read along. Minor edits — such as removing repeated words, ums and the like — were made but the words printed are verbatim. Muller: First of all, thank you for doing this. I want to get an idea of how the idea for the suspension came about and the reasons behind it, and then what you hope to accomplish, or what the Heartlanders hope to...

The truth took a big hit in the year we just passed into the rearview mirror, so much so that PolitiFact , which had awarded — if you want to call it that — a Lie of the Year award since 2009, named 2025 The Year of Lies . Many of the falsehoods in 2025 reached the fact-checking news organization’s threshold for being significant: they were repeated often and demonstrably false and consequential....

A short snippet from an interview with the Rev. Guillermo Treviño Jr., who died Oct. 31, 2025, at the age of 39 while being a champion for social justice. Escucha Mi Voz Iowa City Catholic Workers I am proud to be a member of the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative . Meet our writers here , Get full access to Lyle Muller Doesn't Have a Fancy Column Title at lylemuller.substack.com/subscribe

Back in the day when newspapers I worked at published a daily police log we often we got calls from people who ended up there. Their pathway to the log included shoplifting, drunken driving, simple assault, things like that. The call went something like: Please don’t put my name in the paper. If you do, I will be fired. Or, my wife will find out. Or, in the case of college students, I won’t get in...

Leslie Lopez, of Mount Pleasant, speaks Tuesday, July 29, before a U.S. Federal Building call to free her brother Noel Lopez, from the Washington County Jail. Noel, 24, awaits an Aug. 6 arraignment on two misdemeanor drug charges but the Lopez family’s fears are in high mode because Noel, who has been in the United States since the age of 2 1/2, is not documented. Read the full story here. Get ful...