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Tucson Tragedy
Within a few hours of the horrific shooting of 19 people, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, at a Tucson-area grocery, The Republic focused on two paramount questions in the investigative part of its coverage: What motive and circumstance drove the alleged shooter to act, and what enabled him to succeed? In the short amount of time they had, The Republic staff reached the community college where the alleged shooter had studied, contacted friends and found video and Internet postings of his.
Tags: Gabrielle Giffords; Tucson shooting; breaking news; mentally ill
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Billions to Spend
"This story follows the leaders of the $5.7 billion campus rebuilding program of the LA community college system that wasted tens of millions of dollars through poor planning, shoddy workmanship and frivolous spending."
Tags: community college; campus funding; college construction
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Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime and Complicity
"Scoreboard, Baby" chronicles the 2000 University of Washington football team, the last squad from the school to go the Rose Bowl. Based on exhaustive reporting, the book shows how a community's blind embrace of a football team compromised judges, prosecutors, police agencies, a proud university and the media.
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Iron Men of Overtime
“Two sheriff’s deputies nearly tripled their pay through tremendous amounts of overtime, mostly teaching at a community college”. These deputies would work a great deal of overtime hours, over consecutive days and receive a large amount of overtime pay. After all this became visible, the sheriff put an end to overtime pay through the college, but at this point the deputies had already enhanced their annual pay for three years. Further, it increases their pension benefits for decades to come.
Tags: law enforcement; police department; police academy; Michael Asmolik; Richard Flanagan Jr.; Kevin Walsh; income; time sheet
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Taj Mahal on the Trinity
"This story dealt with the out-of-control construction costs of public county community college urban campus." Also, the errors made by the district, the demands for more money, and failure to oversee the project until the costs estimates were up to "half-billion dollars with less than one-third of the project complete." Further, a great deal of citizens turned against the project, due to the large amount of taxpayer dollars being used.
Tags: education; facility; FOIA; Tarrant County; college district; construction; costs; colleges
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"Sheriff David Harvey"
David Harvey has been Wakulla County's sheriff for 32 years. In addition to being a well-known local figure, he's powerful, and with power comes responsibility. Jennifer Portman looks into the life of Sheriff Harvey and his recent legal troubles, including a hit-and-run car accident and potential financial woes.
Tags: Wakulla; Wildwood Country Club; Chipola Community College; Willie Meggs; Wakulla Bank, Destin
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The American Dream: Hanging by a Thread
"This project is an attempt to measure the health of the middle class by doing original research, then going out into our community to find how the results of the data analysis matched real life in postindustrial Ohio. We found the middle class is shrinking - squeezed on two fronts by steadily decreasing earnings and dramatically increasing costs of the hallmarks of the middle class: home ownership, higher education, affordable health care and a secure retirement."
Tags: Philip Meyer Contest; Ohio; middle class; health care; college; job; home; computer assisted research
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Behind the Politics of Alabama's Community Colleges
"Alabama legislators received jobs and contracts from the state's two-year colleges, often for work that included their legislative duties. it's not clear from system records what lawmakers did for the money the received from the colleges, and in some cases system officials could not determine if any work was performed."
Tags: colleges; higher education; legislatures; state government; public records
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District Lets Years of Misconduct Slide
When Scottsdale Community College fired its music department chair "for purchasing expensive microphones for the college from his son, attempting to cover up the transaction and failing to show up for an electronic music class he was paid to teach," the East Valley Tribune received a tip that the teacher was only part of a bigger story. The investigation uncovered "fraud within the Maricopa County Community College District," including "a performing arts institute that enrolled its professors and clerical employees and their relatives in classes to keep itself operating." There were also major issues in the athletic department, with thousands of dollars missing. Situations such as these had been discovered previously, but the district had taken no action.
Tags: Fraud; academic budget; athletic budget; false enrollment; college budgets