Archive for July, 2007

Foreclosure hot spots in Phoenix area

Friday, 07/27/07 Posted in Broadcast, Housing

The I-Team of KNXV-Phoenix investigated the growing trend of foreclosures in Phoenix area and found "hot zones" where foreclosure rates are highest. Joe Ducey and investigative producer Dan Siegel ... Read more..

Chicago’s drug war toughest on minorities

Thursday, 07/26/07 Posted in CAR, Justice (courts/crime/law), Social issues

A Chicago Tribune analysis of federal data shows that enforcement efforts in the the war on drugs hits minorities far harder than whites. Darnell Little reports that inner-city dealers ... Read more..

Attendance discrepancies skew economic impact figures

Thursday, 07/26/07 Posted in Sports

Josh Robbins of the Orlando Sentinel reports that inaccurate attendance reports could be skewing the economic impact that sports venues have in the community seeing as though turnstile counts are ... Read more..

Fresno suffers more power outages than neighboring communities

Thursday, 07/26/07 Posted in Business, Government (federal/state/local)

California and other states require investor-owned utilities to publish reliability statistics, including the number of minutes the average customer goes without power each year. Brad Branan of the Fresno ... Read more..

Abuses at Texas state schools go unpunished

Thursday, 07/26/07 Posted in Education, Justice (courts/crime/law), Social issues

A Dallas Morning News investigation into disciplinary records of employees at state schools for the mentally retarded " found hundreds of cases of abuse at the hands of those charged ... Read more..

Overtime tops $500 million in California state prisons

Thursday, 07/26/07 Posted in CAR, Government (federal/state/local), Justice (courts/crime/law)

Inmate overcrowding and the increasing number of staff vacancies in California's prisons are spiking overtime costs for the state's corrections department, which spent more than half a billion dollars last ... Read more..

Shriners investigation

Thursday, 07/26/07 Posted in Nonprofit

Over a year ago, online investigative reporter Sandy Frost began digging into whistleblower Read more..

Without limitations, campaing cash spent freely in Oregon

Tuesday, 07/24/07 Posted in Campaign Finance

The Oregonian's Ryan Kost reports that Oregon lawmakers chose not to place limitations on how campaign money could be spent despite promised campaign finance ethics reforms. Two proposed laws limiting ... Read more..

Cities liability records expose wide disparities

Tuesday, 07/24/07 Posted in Government (federal/state/local)

A quick-hit investigation by Marc Davis of The Virginian-Pilot looked at city liablitiy records and found "Virginia Beach paid 84 homeowners and businesses a total of $457,000 to fix damages ... Read more..

Pentagon dismissed requests for mine-resistant vehicles

Monday, 07/23/07 Posted in Government (federal/state/local), Military

The Pentagon failed in its efforts to protect troops in Iraq, according to an investigation by Peter Eisler, Blake Morrison and Tom Vanden Brook of USA TODAY. The Pentagon ... Read more..