Jim Malewitz

How IowaWatch alums are shaping COVID-19 coverage across the U.S.

Elderly folks are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. So are jail and prison inmates living in close quarters that allow the virus to easily

By Jim Malewitz

/ 30 Nov 2020

How IowaWatch alums are shaping COVID-19 coverage across the U.S.

State Senate Election in Iowa Offers Clash of Gay Marriage Sentiments

Iowa's two-and-a-half year experiment with gay marriage could disappear depending on the outcome of the state senate election.

By Jim Malewitz

/ 31 Oct 2011

With Poplar Trees, a One-Time Polluter Makes Some Green

NORTH LIBERTY – Lou Licht was once a polluter – aiding and abetting companies that spewed toxins into the air and water. Today he could hardly be greener. With a quick-growing, toxic-zapping tree and a patented technique, Licht cleans up the types of messes he once helped create. His professional an

By Jim Malewitz

/ 21 Dec 2010

With Poplar Trees, a One-Time Polluter Makes Some Green

Gazing at Soil from Space, an ISU Professor Fulfills Environmental Calling

When Brian Hornbuckle cranes his neck to the nighttime sky, he’s probably not pondering the beauty of the constellations, but thinking about what’s in the Iowa soil right under his feet. Yet he’s neither absent-minded, nor a contradiction. He’s just a man who has found his niche – where astronomy, p

By Jim Malewitz

/ 2 Oct 2010

Gazing at Soil from Space, an ISU Professor Fulfills Environmental Calling

Back to School Special: Huge Tax Break for Private Schools Strains State Treasury

This story, written by Jim Malewitz, was a collaborative effort by Iowa Public Radio and IowaWatch.org. Listen to the IPR report [http://www.iowapublicradio.org/audio/newsroom/nr100813SchoolTaxBreak.mp3]. Iowa Watch examines the affect that a failed state tax incentive has on Iowa taxpayers.

By Jim Malewitz

/ 13 Aug 2010

Back to School Special: Huge Tax Break for Private Schools Strains State Treasury

When Students Go Missing: Responses Differed In These Iowa Cases

Around 1 p.m. on a cold, gray Oct. 10, volunteer searcher Merry Thies snapped her cell phone shut and relayed the news to Dessalines Similhomme: “They found a body

By Jim Malewitz

/ 29 May 2010

When students go missing

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.

By Jim Malewitz

/ 29 May 2010

How IowaWatch alums are shaping COVID-19 coverage across the U.S.

State Senate Election in Iowa Offers Clash of Gay Marriage Sentiments

With Poplar Trees, a One-Time Polluter Makes Some Green

Gazing at Soil from Space, an ISU Professor Fulfills Environmental Calling

Back to School Special: Huge Tax Break for Private Schools Strains State Treasury

When Students Go Missing: Responses Differed In These Iowa Cases

When students go missing

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