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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Some eastern Iowa school districts have already decided to delay their school start dates due to Monday's powerful derecho storm. Other districts are considering delays as they continue to assess the damage to their facilities. -
State officials are warning Iowans it may take days for power to be fully restored in the wake of Monday's rare and powerful derecho storm, which left a wide path of destruction through the state.
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Severe storm systems tore across Iowa on Monday, leveling trees, downing power lines, damaging homes and businesses and leaving hundreds of thousands without power.
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Jerry Burns has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Cedar Rapids high schooler Michelle Martinko, bringing closure to a case that remained unsolved for decades, until the advent of forensic DNA technology.
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The University of Iowa undergraduate and graduate student governments are asking the school to go primarily remote this fall, due to the risk of the coronavirus.
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The City of Dubuque has passed its own face covering mandate, under legal guidance from the city attorney that the order is enforceable, despite the governor's opinion that such local measures are moot.
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The Johnson County Board of Supervisors has unanimously approved a mandate on face coverings, which the county attorney has said will be enforceable, unlike a previous resolution.
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Mayors in Linn County are joining with the county's board of supervisors and board of health in urging Gov. Kim Reynolds to let them issue local mask mandates.
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The Johnson County Board of Health has unanimously approved an ordinance requiring the use of face coverings in public, which the county attorney says will be enforceable once it's approved by the board of supervisors.
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Black Hawk County officials are moving forward with a plan to reclaim local contact tracing, voicing concerns that the state is not adequately handling disease investigation for their local cases of the coronavirus.
