Grant Leo Winterer
Weekend Edition Host and ReporterGrant Leo Winterer has been Iowa Public Radio’s Waterloo and Cedar Falls reporter and host of Weekend Edition since August of 2023.
A born-again Midwesterner, he has lived out east, trekked out west, and honed skills in his home state of Nebraska.
In his first year in radio with KCNI/KBBN in Broken Bow, Grant won two Nebraska Broadcasters Association awards: a gold for Best Continuing Coverage of a news story, when he covered the 2022 Bovee Fire and its aftermath in and around Nebraska’s Halsey National Forest, and a bronze for Best In-Depth or Investigative Story or Series.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from Creighton University and digs plants, animals, hoops, tunes, and utility-grade conversation. He can be reached at gwinterer@iowapublicradio.org
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The 1619 Freedom School is working to close the literacy gap in the city's elementary schools.
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The shelter will provide access to area housing and counseling services.
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Over the past two years, $900,000 has been transferred from the university's general fund to cover a shortfall in the athletics budget.
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A long-vacant brownfield site may soon become home to the Waterloo Court Works.
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The city's predominately Black neighborhood is seeing its first grocery store in nearly 50 years.
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Eleven lakes are under an advisory from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources ahead of the long weekend. The department has identified a spike in E. coli bacteria.
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The repeal leaves Davenport and Linn County as the only two governments in Iowa with similar bans in effect.