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Internet Insults Follow Transgender UNI Homecoming Queen Crowning

Steven Sanchez's life has been a whirlwind since becoming the first transgender student to win the University of Northern Iowa’s Homecoming queen competition on Oct. 11. Now, he is receiving negative feedback via Internet coverage of his unusual win, reading insults while being called a freak, perve

By Linh Ta

/ 18 Oct 2013

Internet Insults Follow Transgender UNI Homecoming Queen Crowning

Pulitzer Prize-winning ISU Faculty Member and Founding Staff Member Join IowaWatch Board

A Pulitzer Prize winning member of the Iowa State University’s Greenlee School of Journalism and a student who was at the founding of the Iowa Center for Public Affairs

By IowaWatch

/ 15 Oct 2013

Pulitzer Prize-winning ISU Faculty Member and Founding Staff Member Join IowaWatch Board

Blacks, Latinos Struggle To Raise Homeownership Rates in Iowa

Home ownership is taken for granted as the default standard of living for many Iowans. But black and Latino homeownership rates have dropped since 1960, an analysis of census data shows. The reasons are explored in the conclusion of the series, "Iowa's Opportunity Gap," an IowaWatch collaboration wi

By By Stephen Gruber-Miller/IowaWatch, Gregg Hennigan/The Gazette, and Joe Sutter/Fort Dodge Messenger

/ 13 Oct 2013

Blacks, Latinos Struggle To Raise Homeownership Rates in Iowa

Podcast: Iowa's Opportunity Gap Project Featured In WMT Radio Interview

WMT radio’s Bob Bruce hosted IowaWatch Executive Director-Editor Lyle Muller on Bruce’s show on Thursday, Oct. 10, to talk about two topics: the federal government shut-down

By IowaWatch

/ 11 Oct 2013

Moves In Iowa Are Aimed At Reducing The State's Black Imprisonment Rate

Dave Selmon says there is no right way to do wrong. “It will catch up with you sooner or later,” the 56-year-old Burlington man said, tapping a lifetime

By By Stephen Gruber-Miller/IowaWatch and Jermaine Pigee/The Hawk Eye (Burlington)

/ 6 Oct 2013

Moves In Iowa Are Aimed At Reducing The State's Black Imprisonment Rate

Freedom Of Information Council Exec and State Senate President Named Free Press Champions

Kathleen Richardson and state Sen. Pam Jochum were selected as the first recipients of awards given by the Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism – IowaWatch to Iowans who have promoted the importance of a free press and open government.

By Joy Chang

/ 4 Oct 2013

Freedom Of Information Council Exec and State Senate President Named Free Press Champions

Government Shutdown Sends Ag Department Workers Home

The U.S. Department of Agriculture was forced to send home tens of thousands of employees because of Tuesday’s government shutdown. As a result, the agriculture department and its

By Robert Holly/Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting

/ 1 Oct 2013

Government Shutdown Sends Ag Department Workers Home

West Liberty School Superintendent Explains Dual Language Program in Interview

In August 2013 IowaWatch and West Liberty Index reporter Stephen Gruber-Miller interviewed West Liberty schools Superintendent Steve Hanson about the district’s dual language program. District officials say the program has helped improve the educational experience and outcomes in their schools.

By Investigate Midwest

/ 29 Sep 2013

West Liberty School Superintendent Explains Dual Language Program in Interview

Graduation Rates For Iowa Blacks, Latinos Not Keeping Up During The Past Half-Century

Only 10 percent of Latino Iowans graduated college in 2010 compared to 16 percent of black and 25 percent of white Iowans, all below the national averages. Perhaps more alarming because how important a high school diploma is, a gap in high school graduation rates for white, black and Latino Iowans c

By By Stephen Gruber-Miller/IowaWatch and West Liberty Index, Gregg Hennigan/The Gazette, Jermaine Pigee/The Hawk Eye and Joe Sutter/Fort Dodge Messenger

/ 29 Sep 2013

Graduation Rates For Iowa Blacks, Latinos Not Keeping Up During The Past Half-Century

Black and Latino Rising Poverty Rates, Dropping Median Pay Are Strongly Linked

Two of every five black Iowans didn’t always live in poverty. In the 1970 and 1980 censuses, for example, their poverty rate was 28 percent. It jumped to 37

By Stephen Gruber-Miller/IowaWatch and West Liberty Index and Joe Sutter/Fort Dodge Messenger

/ 22 Sep 2013

Black and Latino Rising Poverty Rates, Dropping Median Pay Are Strongly Linked

Celebrating a Free Press and Open Government Banquet Oct. 3

On October 3, The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch.org and Iowa Newspaper Association will host the first of what organizers hope will be an annual banquet that

By Joy Chang

/ 18 Sep 2013

Celebrating a Free Press and Open Government Banquet Oct. 3

Commentary: Iowa Needs Problem Solvers To Narrow Opportunity Gaps

In 1974 a handful of leaders in Fort Dodge’s strongly black Pleasant Valley neighborhood wanted the city to do something to help strengthen that neighborhood, especially for young black

By Lyle Muller

/ 16 Sep 2013

Commentary: Iowa Needs Problem Solvers To Narrow Opportunity Gaps