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L.A. Lorek of the San Antonio Express-News reports that counties in Texas may end up paying Valero – the nation’s largest independent refiner – millions of dollars due to inflated property assessments. Valero contends that “most of its Bexar properties
Read More“City managers and administrators in the Des Moines area and other large Iowa cities tend to be paid well above the national average – some by more than nearly double the national average,” reported Jason Clayworth and Melissa Walker of the Des Moines Register. By looking at the compensation packages given to city government officials,…
Read MoreA report by Nick Turse and Deborah Nelson for the Los Angeles Times shows recently declassified documents regarding war crimes committed during the Vietnam War establish that hundreds of soldiers went unpunished for crimes against Vietnamese civilians. “The records describe recurrent attacks on ordinary Vietnamese
Read MoreKevin Begos, of the Tampa Tribune, reports that Florida has a plan in place to handle the potential influx of Cuban immigrants into the state. The Tribune obtained the state’s Mass Migration Response plan through a public records request. Plans include “setting up long-term detention sites across the country” to help defray the logistical stress…
Read MoreJeremy Kohler, of the St. Lousi Post-Dispatch, uncovered the identity of the doctor responsible supervising Missouri’s lethal injection procedure. Banned from practicing in two hospitals in the state, charged with malpractice over 20 times and having received a public reprimand in 2003 by the state Board of Healing Arts, Alan R. Doerhoff has overseen lethal…
Read MoreThe 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 a police investigation in the most notorious unsolved killing in the region. The reporting for this story began in April 2004 with the bankruptcy filings…
Read MoreEric 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 King County Sheriff’s unit assigned to police the Metro regional transit system — Nalder and Kamb, with assists from P-I beat reporters, turned out a…
Read MoreAn 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 system which has operated like “an unchecked cash machine for developers and consultants and its own leaders and failed the families it was meant to serve.”…
Read MoreIn 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 who believe current policies jepordize national security. Don Strange, a former director of the Air Marshal Service’s Atlanta office, addressed his concerns in memos to…
Read MoreThe 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. An extensive review of documents and interviews with involved parties suggest that the Library Board’s decision not to employ a general contractor led to this debacle.…
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