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News Quiz: Understanding Iowa's Presidential Caucuses

The presidential race is heating up in Iowa but also other states. Each state has its own way of determining which candidate from the Republican and Democratic parties will get support. These three questions should help you understand Iowa’s method – the precinct caucuses.

By IowaWatch

/ 28 Aug 2015

News Quiz: Understanding Iowa's Presidential Caucuses

1st Amendment Expert Ken Paulson To Headline Annual IowaWatch Banquet Oct. 8

Register now for the IowaWatch annual banquet. First Amendment expert and educator Ken Paulson will be the guest speaker at the third annual Celebrating a Free Press and Open Government Banquet, titled this year “Journalism's Core...The Contemporary First Amendment.

By IowaWatch

/ 21 Aug 2015

1st Amendment Expert Ken Paulson To Headline Annual IowaWatch Banquet Oct. 8

News Quiz: Algae in Iowa Lakes

This year, Iowa’s state-owned beaches set records for the number of health advisories issued for high microcystin levels. Microcystin is a liver toxin that can form from cyanobacteria, commonly called blue-green algae. Test your knowledge of algae and microcystin in Iowa lakes.

By IowaWatch

/ 21 Aug 2015

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

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

News Quiz: Grant Wood

Iowa painter Grant Wood, recognized mainly for his regionalist style and portrayal of the American Midwest, was born in Anamosa, Iowa, in 1891, and lived there for ten years until the death of his father. For the remainder of his life, Wood lived mostly in Cedar Rapids or Iowa City, and is still cel

By IowaWatch

/ 7 Aug 2015

'Iowa Stories' Author Wins Literary Award For Children's Book

The International Literacy Association has given Cheryl Mullenbach's children’s book "The Industrial Revolution for Kids: The People and Technology That Changed the World, with 21 Activities," its 2015 award for intermediate nonfiction writing.

By IowaWatch

/ 3 Aug 2015

'Iowa Stories' Author Wins Literary Award For Children's Book

Podcast: IowaWatch Connection Updates Evansdale Double Murder Case

This podcast of an IowaWatch Connection radio report lets you hear more about the abduction and murder of two Evansdale, Iowa, cousins, and efforts to find their killer or killers.

By IowaWatch

/ 3 Aug 2015

Podcast: IowaWatch Connection Updates Evansdale Double Murder Case

News Quiz: Refugees In Iowa

Since 1975, the United States has resettled more than 3 million refugees. Between 1975 and 2005, over 25,000 refugees were resettled directly into Iowa alone. Do you know some of the history behind refugee resettlement in Iowa?

By IowaWatch

/ 31 Jul 2015

News Quiz: U.S. President Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover, the 31st U.S. president, grew up in West Branch, Iowa until age 9, when he was orphaned and sent to live with relatives in Oregon. He served as president from 1929 to 1933. Test your knowledge on his Iowa roots and influence worldwide.

By IowaWatch

/ 24 Jul 2015