By Julia Davis, Leziga Barikor, Susan Haack and Stephen J. Berry May 7, 2017 If the law of supply and demand applied to the marketplace of ideas like it does to economics, political opinions wouldn’t be worth a plug nickel. They are everywhere, more so than ever since the election of Donald J. Trump to […]
By Stephanie Woodruff, Madison Wilson and Alex Kirkpatrick April 26, 2017 Instances in which Iowans’ identity was stolen jumped a whopping 30 percent, from a rate of 56 people for every 100,000 Iowans in 2014 to 73 just a year later, in 2015. Most of the thefts happened via the internet. The growth in […]
By Fenna Semken Attempts to educate students about sexual assault in a high school setting sometimes lack effectiveness, IowaWatch interviews with teachers, administrators and high school students from 18 Iowa school districts revealed. The result is students who said they didn’t know what sexual assault consisted of, how to prevent it and how to get […]
By Julia Davis At first, Leslie Carpenter thought her son Patrick was on drugs. She was at home in Iowa City with her husband and about to go to bed when the phone rang. It was Patrick. “Mom, I died. I’ve been reborn,” the 19-year-old told her. “I’m God. We need to go, and I […]
Simpson College’s The Simpsonian is experiencing decreased readership of its printed newspaper. And it is not alone. Student-run college newspapers across Iowa are feeling familiar newspaper industry trend repercussions, reporting fewer print readers but increased online readership as young readers increasingly get their news from digital sources. Ashley Smith, Simpson College “I honestly don’t think […]
By Krista Johnson, IowaWatch.org You’re becoming too Americanized, Nickie Nguyen’s parents told her when she didn’t speak Vietnamese as well as the other Vietnamese children around her in Des Moines. You’re not Dominican enough, University of Iowa student Geordano Liriano was told by older people when he couldn’t say a certain Spanish phrase correctly when […]
