A state tax incentive that pays tuition for students in private, mostly religious, schools has failed to meet proponents’ claims that it would cut the state budget and is instead costing Iowa taxpayers millions of dollars, a joint investigation by Iowa Public Radio and IowaWatch has found.
Through the incentive the state has doled out almost [...]
Posted on 13 August 2010
A letter from the editor: Let’s get to work
22 July 2010
Dear Friends of IowaWatch, The IRS notified me Tuesday that it granted the Iowa Center tax-exempt status, a designation vitally important to you and to our mission. Granted under 501 (c)(3) of the revenue code and related laws, it means your donations are tax deductible, and it designates the Center a “public charity.” We get that status [...]
Investigative News Network accepts Iowa Center
10 June 2010
The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism has been accepted into the Investigative News Network, a national consortium of non-profit investigative news centers. The Center was among seven other non-profit journalism organizations to have its membership application approved earlier this week by the INN membership committee, bringing the total membership to 33.
Center News
When students go missing
Posted on 29 May 2010
When University of Iowa student Jacques Similhomme, the son of a refugee Haitian preacher mysteriously disappeared on Sept. 28, 2009, his father pleaded with university, police and media officialdom to help find his son.
For the most part, he met silence.
From the Classroom
Special Project
Posted on 04 April 2010
This section is the future home of “From the Classroom,” a section of IowaWatch.org that focuses on strong writing and reporting produced in college journalism classrooms across the state. Each story will go through rigorous editing before being published.
If you think you have a story fit for “From the Classroom,” contact us.
Off the Iowa Beat
Dispatches from the Gulf
Posted on 03 August 2010
By PETE WILSON
Special to IowaWatch
Pete Wilson, a New Orleans resident and 2009 graduate of the University of Iowa masters journalism program, recently visited Grand Isle, La., to take stock of the BP oil spill.
“I kept hearing … the situation was worse than what was being reported, so I went down to Grand [...]
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