The most recent Federal Bureau of Investigation data for 2016, issued in late 2017, showed 12 Iowa law enforcement agencies reporting 17 hate crimes in Iowa.
Eastern Iowans interested in politics are trying to have civil conversations about this issues dividing them. They've joined an nationwide movement called Better Angels, a bipartisan citizen’s effort to bring Republicans and Democrats together to talk to one another in a civil manner.
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The Trump Administration’s ability to enact the voters’ will is impeded by a continual stream of nationwide court
The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism, which runs IowaWatch.org, has filed its 990 tax return for 2017. The return shows what the nonprofit center reported as earning and
The University of Iowa has services and programming to help African American and Latino students feel welcome but a lot of those students don’t know about them, students at
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lessened protections for crops and wildlife habitats after Monsanto supplied research that presented lower estimates of how far the weed killer dicamba can drift,
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Iowa's largest stateagencies would bear most of the proposed $110 million in budget cuts for the current fiscal year that Gov. Terry Branstad and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds sent to the Legislature for the 2017 legislative session.