Archive for November, 2004

Civil rights cases in decline

Monday, 11/29/04 Posted in CAR, First Amendment & FOIA, Justice (courts/crime/law)

A report from the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse finds "Key data from the Justice Department and the federal courts show that the government's enforcement of civil rights cases — an extremely rare ... Read more..

Storm claims come into question

Monday, 11/29/04 Posted in CAR, Disasters, Government (federal/state/local)

Sally Kestin and Megan O'Matz of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel find the federal government "approved $28,000,000 in storm claims" in Miami-Dade County, 100 miles south of where Hurricance Frances landed. The claims were "for ... Read more..

Peacetime more dangerous for Army

Monday, 11/29/04 Posted in CAR, Military

Michael Fabey of the Savannah Morning News finds "there is no proof that being in a war zone has anything to do with the number of mishaps." While accidents in Iraq and ... Read more..

Deadly road in central Florida

Monday, 11/29/04 Posted in CAR, Transportation

Scott Powers, Liz Gibson and Katy Miller of the Orlando Sentinel used federal and state transportation data to show that Colonial Drive, "which weaves together more of the fabric of Central Florida ... Read more..

Nichols details role in OKC bombing

Monday, 11/29/04 Posted in Disasters, Justice (courts/crime/law)

Nolan Clay of The Oklahoman uses a detailed statement given by Terry Nichols during secret plea negotiations last year to show Nichols confessed his major role in the deadly 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. ... Read more..

Crack takes high toll in N.C.

Wednesday, 11/24/04 Posted in Health, Justice (courts/crime/law)

Stan Swofford of the Greensboro News & Record has a three-part series looking at the costs of crack cocaine in Greensboro nearly 20 years after it first surfaced. The drug is ... Read more..

Bad landlords, flawed system plague tenants

Wednesday, 11/24/04 Posted in Government (federal/state/local), Housing

Kurt Rogahn and Janet Rorholm of The (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) Gazette looked at rental housing in the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City area of Eastern Iowa and revealed landlords who abuse holes in the ... Read more..

High school violence going unreported

Tuesday, 11/23/04 Posted in Broadcast, CAR, Education, Justice (courts/crime/law)

Chris Halsne of KIRO-Seattle used records kept by schools to find that violent incidents in high schools are not being reported to the police. In five Tacoma high schools that KIRO looked ... Read more..

Politician’s family was on payroll

Tuesday, 11/23/04 Posted in CAR, Campaign Finance

Dunstan McNichol of The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger studied state records relating to Assemblyman Anthony Impreveduto, finding that the Hudson Democrat "paid his daughter, sister and other family members $238,000 of the $304,000 in taxpayer ... Read more..

Legislator had links to businesses

Tuesday, 11/23/04 Posted in Business, Politics

Mike Stanton of The Providence Journal unearthed evidence showing that state House Majority Leader Gerard M. Martineau, "while he was in a position to influence legislation affecting CVS and Blue Cross, was ... Read more..