PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics.
Edited by Lyle Muller and Sarah Watson
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Unlike the 2015 University of Iowa presidential search, which featured four men, three of the four finalists are women. Some University of Iowa community members lamented the lack of people of color...
President Joe Biden pitched a potential $4 trillion in social programs and infrastructure to Congress on Wednesday, arguing for ambitious spending to kick-start the U.S. economy as it recovers from the...
This past year has brought up a lot of trauma among communities of color. With the numerous hate crimes within the Asian American Pacific Islander community and the police brutality Black and Brown...
While the result of the Derek Chauvin trial was an example of accountability in our policing system, America still has a long way to go when it comes to racial justice. For Iowa, we still have to make...
Higher education changed the trajectory of Daniel Clay’s life. Now one of four finalists for the University of Iowa presidency, Clay recently attributed his success in higher education to the mentors...
Sally Wallace, a dean at Georgia State, describes her boss Provost Wendy Hensel as authentic.
“She’s the real deal,” said Wallace, who leads the university’s School of Policy Studies.
In...
Barbara Wilson’s colleagues and students know her as a servant leader and a good listener. The University of Illinois System, a three-university, roughly 90,000-student, 6,000-faculty system, has...
Hari Osofsky was one of the first people that greeted Davis Blount when he stepped onto the Penn State Law campus as a prospective law student.
Blount, now a third-year law student and the vice...
Micah Broekemeier, a 29-year-old history major at the University of Iowa, has announced his intention to run as a Republican in the upcoming special election for a Johnson County Board of Supervisors...
After over a year of closure, Sycamore Cinema in Iowa City reopened on April 23.
The theater is a franchise location of Marcus Theatres, as is Coral Ridge Cinema, located in the Coral Ridge Mall....
