Kate Payne
ReporterKate Payne is an Iowa City-based reporter and served as a co-host of Iowa Public Radio's podcast Caucus Land. Kate has won Regional Edward R. Murrow awards for her feature reporting and her sound editing. Her political reporting has been featured on Morning Edition, All Things Considered and The NPR Politics Podcast. She's been a guest on MSNBC, CBSN, KQED, WGBH, CapRadio, WYPR and New Hampshire Public Radio.
Before coming to IPR, Kate was a reporter and fill-in host at WFSU in Tallahasse, FL. She is a proud North Florida native and a dyed-in-the-wool hand talker.
You can contact Kate at KPayne@iowapublicradio.org.
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A local community organization is ramping up a fundraising campaign to open a non-profit grocery store in a Cedar Rapids neighborhood that was hard-hit by the flood in 2008. The development is part of the group's larger efforts to bring more life, activity and investment in the neighborhood. -
Iowa Democrats are asking the Biden administration to conduct an investigation into the killings of two Iowa Department of Corrections staffers, who were allegedly bludgeoned to death by two inmates. The attack has underscored understaffing, overcrowding and safety concerns at the facilities.
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The third candidate vying to be the next president of the University of Iowa has spent much of her career teaching and writing about disability and employment rights law. Wendy Hensel currently serves as the chief academic officer at Georgia State University in Atlanta, and presents herself as an innovator who’s spent her career focused on equity and problem solving.
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Johnson County Supervisor Janelle Rettig is resigning her position. Rettig made the announcement over the weekend, citing personal health concerns that stem from Lyme Disease. Rettig also stated she wanted to step down as the coronavirus crisis was “concluding."
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Prison reform advocates say incarcerated individuals have been devastated by last month’s killings of two staffers at the Anamosa State Penitentiary. The tragedy has shaken both Department of Corrections and employees and inmates, many of whom knew the victims personally and continue to mourn them.
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Iowa City’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission resumed its operations Thursday night, after a temporary suspension put in place by city officials was lifted. At the same time, local Black Lives Matter activists held an organizing meeting for their own Peoples Truth & Reckoning Commission.
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The second candidate interviewing to be the next president of the University of Iowa comes from the state university system in neighboring Illinois. Barbara Wilson, a top administrator at the University of Illinois system visited campus Thursday, taking questions and meeting with school leaders.
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Students and employees at Iowa’s three public universities will not be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The president of the Board of Regents made the announcement at a meeting Wednesday.
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The Lower Missouri and Raccoon Rivers are among the top 10 most endangered in the country this year, according to a national advocacy group. The organization American Rivers is calling for concerted action at all levels of government in order to what it describes as threats to public health and safety and biological diversity.
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The University of Iowa held its first public forum with one of the candidates to be the school’s next president on Monday. Hari Osofsky is currently the dean of the schools of Law and International Affairs at Penn State, and was the first finalist to field questions from community members on how she'd approach the job.
