A report on Bank Tracker, a project of the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University, shows that OneUnited Bank, the bank at the center of the allegations against Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., was the weakest TARP bank at the time of its rescue. “When then Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced creation of the so-called “Capital [...]
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Poor areas of Milwaukee have highest water usage
July 23rd, 2010 
Beth When it comes to using water, in Milwaukee the largest users do not have the largest homes or properties, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel analysis by Ben Poston revealed. It’s the opposite: The biggest users are in the poorest census tracts in the city and are disproportionately minorities. Why? Those homes are more likely to have [...]
Analysis finds mine safety violations focus on ventilation, fire, electricity
July 22nd, 2010 Beth Citations for safety and health violations by operators of underground coal mines have increased by nearly a third since 2006, with federal mine inspectors focusing about equally on three main types of mining hazards. An NPR analysis of nearly 80,000 citations written last year found that an accumulation of combustible coal dust was the most [...]
Board members profit from part-time work
June 29th, 2010 Beth An accountant, a lawyer and two retired executives each collected more than $475,000 last year – and one topped $600,000 – doing part-time work for multiple Wisconsin companies, according to review of Securities and Exchange Commission data by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Cary Spivak. The men are members of corporate America’s most elite club: the [...]
Convictions result from investigation into workforce grant scheme
June 25th, 2010 Beth The Charleston Gazette’s investigation of federal grant misuse at West Virginia’s state employment agency culminated with four criminal convictions in federal court and a prison sentence for one of the people involved. Gazette business reporter Eric Eyre used a hex editor to analyze the contents of a computer file, showing that the state official in [...]
Site tracks candidates statements, claims in race for California governor
June 21st, 2010 Beth California Watch launched Politics Verbatim, a site that “collects and categorizes the promises, proposals, arguments and attacks” made by Democrat Jerry Brown and Republican Meg Whitman in their race for governor of California. The site was launched with 300 documents and 1,000 excerpts that will be added to daily as the race progresses allowing voters [...]
Nearly half of Phoenix’s murders go unsolved
May 14th, 2010 Beth KNXV-Phoenix teamed up with colleagues at Scripps Howard News Service to review the FBI’s uniform crime report data for unsolved murder rates nationwide. Phoenix did not fare well in the analysis. A lack of time, resources and money resulted in a homicide clearance rate of just 54.6% over a 28 year period. As a result, [...]
Car registrations net millions for Washington state parks
May 4th, 2010 Beth A KIRO-Seattle investigation found that six months ago the Washington State Park Department started billing all vehicle owners in the state an automatic $5 donation for state parks. The donation is included in the total cost of registration although you can opt out of the payment. Since rolling the donation into the registration total, funds [...]
Little done to deter violations of Clean Air Act
April 14th, 2010 Beth Through analysis of Clean Air Act data kept by the Environmental Protection agency, The Journal Gazette (Fort Wayne, Ind.) found government regulators have a list of more than 200 facilities in Indiana they say have broken air pollution laws in the past three years, and little or nothing has been done to stop them.
Pension obligations strain budgets throughout California
April 12th, 2010 Beth A collaboration by the five McClatchy newspapers in California examined how pension obligations are hurting local governments at a time of diminished resources throughout the state.
