Clare McCarthy

Free Speech Battles Come To Boil at Cornell College This Spring

Recent incidents at a small private Iowa college have evolved into an example of how animosities occur, spread across campus and sometimes shut down communication when different interpretations of free speech exist.

By Christina Rueth and Clare McCarthy

/ 3 May 2016

Free Speech Battles Come To Boil at Cornell College This Spring

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

Response To Refugees In Iowa Has Changed In 40 Years

Iowa was the first state to offer resettlement assistance to refugees in 1975 and continued to do so in 1979. But refugee assistance in Iowa, which is dealing with an influx of Burmese refugees, is not the same as it was 40 years ago.

By Clare McCarthy

/ 5 Aug 2015

Response To Refugees In Iowa Has Changed In 40 Years

Inside The Reporter's Notebook: Reporters Explain The Register's Forfeiture Law Abuse Investigation

In an IowaWatch interview, Des Moines Register reporter Jason Clayworth discusses the premise behind the newspaper's investigation into abuses of property forfeitures in Iowa. Part of a series of IowaWatch examinations of investigative reporting in Iowa.

By Clare McCarthy

/ 23 Jun 2015

Free Speech Battles Come To Boil at Cornell College This Spring

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

Response To Refugees In Iowa Has Changed In 40 Years

Inside The Reporter's Notebook: Reporters Explain The Register's Forfeiture Law Abuse Investigation

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