WMT radio’s Bob Bruce featured the investigative story by IowaWatch and four Iowa newspapers about waiting times facing the state’s war veterans who try to get U.S.
An IowaWatch story written by Lauren Mills has been awarded 10th place in the William Randolph Hearst Foundation’s 2012-2013 Enterprise Writing Competition. Mills wrote the winning “The Story
The numbers were available: Iowa veterans were waiting at the end of 2012, on average, 313 days before the Department of Veterans Affairs processed their benefit claims. Less than a year, but more than 10 months. After returning from war, with disabilities. But what did those numbers mean?
IowaWatch, The Daily Iowan, and The Iowa State Daily called Iowa Legislators throughout the state and asked their opinions on a proposed tuition freeze for state universities.
This data was gathered by political science professors Keith Poole from the University of Georgia, Howard Rosenthal from New York University and Jeff Lewis from UCLA using DW-Nominate scores.
The University of Iowa has selected IowaWatch’s Emily Hoerner to give the student commencement address during the winter graduation ceremony Dec. 15 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
The university informed
American democracy is in trouble, and things aren’t likely to get better anytime soon, a range of academic and professional experts lament. All the while the 24-hour cable news media enables fringe elements that drive gridlock, they add.
By Center for Investigative Reporting and The Bay Citizen [http://www.iowawatch.org/?s=CIP&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&submit=Go] Iowa response times included in interactive map, shared with public affairs journalism newsrooms
