IowaWatch Offering Donated Copies of “Juxtapositions” Book for Donations
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The Iowa Center for Public Affairs Journalism-IowaWatch is offering copies of the photojournalism book “Juxtapositions” to those who donate $75 or more to IowaWatch.
Free Speech On Campus, Overdose Drug Legislation Top 2016 IowaWatch Stories List
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Controversy about speech limits on college campuses in Iowa drew the most attention of all the IowaWatch stories written in 2016. Here is a look at our most-read stories of the year.
Trump transition
IowaWatch Connection Podcast: Successes And Controversies Of Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad
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Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad will step down in 2017 to become the U.S. Ambassador to China after President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of him to the post is confirmed. This IowaWatch Connection podcast report looks at that career that made Branstad the longest-serving governor in American history.
agriculture
News Quiz: Relationship between Iowa and China
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Gov. Terry Branstad said in a summer IowaWatch interview that Iowa needs to maintain trade relationships with China and get good business deals with partners in that country. Iowa has built significant economic and diplomatic relationships with China since the 1980s. Find out in this news quiz how much you know about Iowa-Chinese relations.
China
Chinese Students Still Struggle With University System in Iowa
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Chinese students at the University of Iowa continue to try making do in a system that isn’t tailored to them, from the admissions process to academics and life on campus, despite moves by the university and others over the past several years to make life more pleasant for them in the United States.
Government & Politics
China Vice President Xi Jinping’s Muscatine Reunion
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MUSCATINE – Police warned Kristy Reiser about traffic in front of her house on 2nd Street in Muscatine: “They told me that it would be closed from 2 p.m. until 6 p.m. That’s it.” That was Tuesday, and Reiser probably didn’t mind. After all, it’s not everyday that the vice president of the People’s Republic of China comes to your neighbohood. The next day, Reiser seemed clearly amused, because the view from her porch looked like a bad day outside the United Nations, only with heckling from Tea Party members added to the mix. China’s vice president and the likely next president Xi Jinping (pronounced: she-jin-ping) was in town after spending Valentine’s Day in Washington, D.C.. in lengthy discussions with President Barack Obama about economic and military relationships with China.