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Inside The Reporter's Notebook: How The Gazette Dug Into High State Tax Credit For Private Schools

The Gazette's investigative reporter Erin Jordan explains the reporting she did to reveal why some Iowans are concerned about a generous tax credit Student Tuition Organizations get to assist students at private schools.

By Clare McCarthy

/ 20 Aug 2015

Inside The Reporter's Notebook: How The Gazette Dug Into High State Tax Credit For Private Schools

Wide Variety On How States Handle Medicinal Marijuana: News21 Report

A News21 investigation found there are as many ways to deal with medical marijuana as there are states that have legalized it.

By Katie Campbell, Anne M. Shearer, Lauren Del Valle and Rilwan Balogun/News21

/ 19 Aug 2015

Wide Variety On How States Handle Medicinal Marijuana: News21 Report

Your Chance To Talk With Local Editors About Your Community Newspapers

IowaWatch will host forums on Sept. 14 and 15 in North Liberty and Iowa City, respectively, that give the public a chance to talk with local newspaper editors about decisions editors make about news, and how to get news into the papers.

By IowaWatch

/ 19 Aug 2015

Your Chance To Talk With Local Editors About Your Community Newspapers

Listen To The KXIC Podcast: Regular IowaWatch Appearance Features Investigation Into Lake Algae

IowaWatch assistant editor and data analyst Lauren Mills and Iowa City Press-Citizen reporter Stephen Gruber-Miller were guests on the Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015, "Your Town" segment of Jay Capron's morning show on KXIC radio, AM 800, in Iowa City.

By IowaWatch

/ 19 Aug 2015

Listen To The KXIC Podcast: Regular IowaWatch Appearance Features Investigation Into Lake Algae

Medicinal Marijuana Movement Pumping Money Into Bids For Legal Pot: News21 Report

While Iowa wrestles with how to handle medicinal marijuana other states are moving ahead on legalizing the drug -- for medicinal use but also for recreational use. This is a report made available to IowaWatch and other news organizations by the News21 team.

By Brianna Gurciullo, Karen Mawdsley and Katie Campbell/News21

/ 16 Aug 2015

Medicinal Marijuana Movement Pumping Money Into Bids For Legal Pot: News21 Report

Strangers In Buggy Rob Bank

It was an early spring morning in 1895 when two strangers in a buggy made their way into town at Adel just west of Des Moines. By the time they left, two town folk lay close to death and the bank was short an undetermined amount of cash.

By Cheryl Mullenbach/Iowa Stories

/ 15 Aug 2015

Severity Of Algae In Iowa Lakes Is On The Rise

That paint-like scum that covers some Iowa lakes every summer isn’t just gross and smelly. People, pets, and livestock coming into contact with or ingesting toxins produced by the algae are at risk to symptoms including skin rashes, gastrointestinal issues and, in high doses, liver failure.

By Lauren Mills

/ 15 Aug 2015

Severity Of Algae In Iowa Lakes Is On The Rise

Busy Coralville Lake Algae Levels Safe; Battle Continues At Eastern Iowa Recreation Areas

Beach-goers in eastern Iowa's Johnson County looking for a final summer swim before school starts should be aware of two unpleasant dangers — toxic algae and E. coli. [One of two stories in a special IowaWatch-Iowa City Press-Citizen collaboration.]

By Stephen Gruber-Miller/Iowa City Press-Citizen

/ 15 Aug 2015

Busy Coralville Lake Algae Levels Safe; Battle Continues At Eastern Iowa Recreation Areas

The Science Of Iowa Lake Scum

Only certain strains of cyanobacteria can produce toxins, although they don’t always do so. “Scientists generally agree that the cyanobacteria evolved this ability to produce toxin either as a competitive advantage or as some sort of protection,” Mary Skopec, who heads the Iowa Department of Natural

By Lauren Mills

/ 14 Aug 2015

News Quiz: Iowa's Unsolved Murders

The term “cold case” doesn’t always sit well with law enforcement officials who are seeking and following leads in a criminal investigation. The reason: they still are investigating, for example a murder, but while they have not solved the case they also are not letting on a pile of work gather dust

By IowaWatch

/ 14 Aug 2015

IowaWatch Connection Podcast: Iowa's Role Helping Refugees Limited By Resources

This podcast of an IowaWatch Connection report about Iowa's role helping refugees lets you hear from Iowans helping refugees who come into the state and from Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad.

By IowaWatch

/ 10 Aug 2015

IowaWatch Connection Podcast: Iowa's Role Helping Refugees Limited By Resources

Carrie Nation In Iowa

Newspapers called her “a dauntless woman in a ferment” and a “militant temperance advocate.” Carrie Nation described herself as “a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what he doesn’t like.”

By Cheryl Mullenbach/Iowa Stories

/ 8 Aug 2015