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Archive for July, 2006

“Conduct Unbecoming” Continues

Thursday, 07/27/06 Posted in Justice (courts/crime/law)

Eric Nalder and Lewis Kamb of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer uncover more police abuses in a continuation of the "Conduct Unbecoming" series. In their latest installment -- focusing on a specialized ... Read more..

“Teflon Don”

Thursday, 07/27/06 Posted in Justice (courts/crime/law)

The Times Herald-Record's Michael Levensohn conducted an exhaustive investigation painstakingly detailing how a local businessman, Donald Boehm, looted an estate of millions of dollars and has become the focus of ... Read more..

House of Lies

Wednesday, 07/26/06 Posted in Housing

An extensive four-part series by Debbie Cenziper, Susannah Nesmith and Tim Henderson of The Miami Herald has uncovered extensive corruption in the Miami-Dade Housing Agency. Their investigation uncovered a ... Read more..

Indianapolis library expansion mired in mess of mismanagement

Tuesday, 07/25/06 Posted in Government (federal/state/local)

The Indianapolis Star's Kevin Corcoran looks into the construction project to expand Indianapolis's Central Library which is now two years behind schedule and more than $50 million over budget. ... Read more..

Air Marshals Warn System Failures Threaten Security

Tuesday, 07/25/06 Posted in Homeland Security

In a coordinated series that broadcast in Denver, Atlanta, Las Vegas and Dallas, investigative reporter Tony Kovaleski of 7NEWS in Denver spoke to 17 Air Marshals from those four cities ... Read more..

Death at Memorial Hospital

Friday, 07/21/06 Posted in Disasters, Justice (courts/crime/law)

Following the announcement of murder charges against a New Orleans doctor and two nurses on duty in the wake Hurricane Katrina, CNN continues its Emmy-nominated investigative series, "Death at Memorial Hospital" ... Read more..

Witnesses, Army records describe confusion and cover-ups in Tillman case

Friday, 07/21/06 Posted in Military

ESPN.com offers a series delving deeper into the 2004 death of Pfc. Pat Tillman, who left the NFL to serve with the Army Rangers in Afghanistan, and the questions still ... Read more..

Organic food standards backed by weak oversight

Monday, 07/17/06 Posted in Government (federal/state/local)

Paula Lavigne of The Dallas Morning News found that "the United States Department of Agriculture does not know how often organic rules are broken and has not consistently taken action ... Read more..

America’s Racial Expulsions

Friday, 07/14/06 Posted in Social issues

In the story "Leave or Die: America's Hidden History of Racial Explusion," Elliot Jaspin of Cox News Service used Census Data and other documents to expose the systematic expulsion of ... Read more..

Indiana boaters lack safety skills

Tuesday, 07/11/06 Posted in Transportation

With Fourth of July revelers bound for the lakes, Marc Chase of The Times of Northwest Indiana wrote, A Times' computerized analysis of U.S. Coast Guard recreational boating accident ... Read more..

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