Forty-five words that were first written with a quill pen 230 years ago form what may be the most consequential sentence in United States history.
But that sentence also
Iowa clean energy advocates suspect the state’s largest utility is secretly behind a new organization claiming to represent farmers, consumers and businesses that oppose the state’s solar policies.
NewsMatch raised $7.6 million nationally from individual donors and a coalition of major funders for nonprofit news organizations, including IowaWatch, in two months at the end of 2018.
IowaWatch, run by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism, is one of more than 150 nonprofit newsrooms across the country selected to participate in this year’s NewsMatch for a third straight year. The national call-to-action will launch on Nov. 1, 2018.
In 2009, two Iowa college students went missing and the responses highlighted differences in the way universities handle missing persons cases and the challenges in dealing with adults who go missing. Polices haven’t changed much since then, officials said this week, although social media growth all
Emily Zimmerman knew things weren't right in her hometown of Marinette, Wis., on Monday afternoon as soon as she checked Facebook. Zimmerman, senior in biology, checked the social media site on her cell phone while waiting for the CyRide to take her home in Ames. But not everything she read was reli