Grant Leo Winterer
Weekend Edition Host and ReporterExpertise: Hosting and reporting
Education: Bachelors degree from Creighton University
Favorite Iowa Destination: Any town with decent hockey
Experience:
- Covers news and issues surrounding community building, plants, crops & greenery and nature conservation in the Waterloo/Cedar Falls and northeastern Iowa region for IPR
- Has previously reported on news and public affairs issues for radio stations including KCNI/KBBN in Broken Bow, Neb.
- Is a multi-award-winning reporter, including a Nebraska Broadcasters Association Gold Award for Best Continuing Coverage of a News Story and a Bronze Award for Best In-Depth or Investigative Story or Series
Grant Leo Winterer has been Iowa Public Radio’s Waterloo and Cedar Falls reporter and host of Weekend Edition since August of 2023.
My Favorite Stories
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Planting is well underway across the Midwest, but farmers are still grappling with dry conditions that led to lower than normal corn yields last fall. It’s the third year of a near historic drought for parts of the Corn Belt. -
The 1619 Freedom School is working to close the literacy gap in the city's elementary schools. -
The repeal leaves Davenport and Linn County as the only two governments in Iowa with similar bans in effect.
My Latest Stories
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For the first time in its nearly 30-year history, the African American Cultural and Historical Museum is opening to the public. It was previously open by appointment only, but that is changing this month thanks to a nationwide fundraising effort. -
The Waterloo after-school literacy program co-founded by Nikole Hannah-Jones will host the city’s 19th African American Read-In after the city’s school district withdrew from the statewide program last month. -
Iowa’s longtime U.S. Rep. Jim Leach has died at 82 years old. Leach was born and raised in Davenport and served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 until 2007. He was a Republican, but broke from his party in 2008, when he endorsed Barack Obama for president over John McCain. -
Over Veterans Day weekend in Waterloo, several residents received fliers for the Aryan Freedom Network, a white supremacist group that claims official chapters in over half of the United States. The incident is the latest in a string of hate-speech disturbances in the area since July. -
Two Cedar Falls residents are running for a chance to represent parts of three northeast Iowa counties in the Statehouse.
