Daphne Patton of Iowa City speaks during a live storytelling event at Iowa Writers' House in Iowa City that served as a fundraiser for Iowa Writers' House and IowaWatch on Nov. 30, 2017.
Iowans like to tell others how great their state is. How do you measure that? IowaWatch collaborated with Iowa Writers’ House of Iowa City to find out, by asking five people who moved to the state and adopted it as home about what made them do that.
We edited for length and presentation some of these for an IowaWatch Connection radio program that coincides with Iowa’s anniversary for achieving statehood. Iowa became a state on Dec. 28, 1846.
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We recently brought back our Live Storytelling series in Iowa City — and the photos are in.
Co-produced with the University of Iowa Events Management Certification program, the night featured
You're invited to an evening of live storytelling featuring powerful, personal stories from five Iowa men with backgrounds in journalism, education, comedy, and the arts.
Iowa’s farmlands are hotbeds for greenhouse gases, with nitrous oxide accounting for 59% of agricultural emissions in 2022.
These emissions are primarily driven by nitrogen fertilizer applications and animal
This chart shows the population of every city, town and unincorporated village with fewer than 5,000 people reported in the 2020 Census. The chart is in alphabetical order.
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This chart shows the population of every city, town and unincorporated village reported in the 2020 Census. The chart is in alphabetical order.
A four-month IowaWatch investigation that included
You may read here the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism's 990 tax return for 2019. It covers our work at the IowaWatch.org news website and our educational programming for student journalists who produce in-depth reporting with IowaWatch staff journalists.
Fifty years ago Wadena, Iowa, hosted a rock festival that now is part of Iowa history. Iowa has other ties to rock music, as you can learn in this news quiz.
