An environmental investigation by The Times (Shreveport, La.) culled through data from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and identified “at least 83 permitted dischargers within Bossier, Bienville, Caddo, Claiborne, DeSoto, Natchitoches, Red River, Sabine and Webster parishes that put wastewater into Red River or a nearby tributary.”
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Lawyers, doctors profiting from farm subsidies in Oklahoma
11/11/08 Posted in CAR, Government (federal/state/local)
An investigation by Gavin Off of the Tulsa World revealed serious issues in farm subsidy dollars.
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11/11/08 Posted in Health, Workplace
On Sunday and Monday, The Charlotte Observer published a two-part series detailing the risks to young workers in dangerous jobs. The stories showed that federal child labor enforcement has waned despite new evidence that many employers are ignoring the rules.
Read the rest of this entry »Dietary supplements contain undisclosed amounts of prescription drugs
11/10/08 Posted in Health
Alison Young of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found that some dietary supplements, which are not subject to government regulation, contain amounts of undisclosed prescription drugs, as well as food allergens, bacteria and human placenta.
Read the rest of this entry »DeKalb county loses thousands of traffic tickets
11/10/08 Posted in Government (federal/state/local)
Cameron McWhirter of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that DeKalb County’s traffic court has lost the hundreds of thousands of citations.
Read the rest of this entry »Health care system allows immigrants to fall through the cracks
11/10/08 Posted in Government (federal/state/local), Health, Uncategorized
Deborah Sontag of The New York Times continued the paper’s “Getting Tough” series with an examination of some hospitals’ practice of repatriating immigrant patients to their native countries without consent.
Read the rest of this entry »Surge in Democrats turns Dutchess County, N.Y. blue
11/6/08 Posted in Politics
Millions in homeland security equipment missing
11/5/08 Posted in Broadcast, Homeland Security
Brian Collister of WOAI-San Antonio reports that “the Department of Homeland Security is missing more than $32 million dollars worth of equipment.”
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11/5/08 Posted in Education
An investigation by Thomas Hargrove and Gavin Off of Scripps News Service found that “taxpayers pay millions of dollars every month to educate tens of thousands of high school students who rarely or never show up for class, part of a growing trend of high absenteeism at privately operated schools.”
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