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Some pharmacists get their licenses back despite history of drug abuse
“A Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting examination of state pharmacy board records showed that during the last ten years, 16 Maine pharmacists had their licenses revoked by the state for stealing drugs. Thirteen pharmacists during the same period were allowed by the board to practice pharmacy despite their history of drug abuse and theft.…
Read MoreThe Horror Every Day: Police Brutality In Houston Goes Unpunished
“What’s rare is for the Houston Police Department to punish its officers for excessive force. An eight-month Texas Observer investigation found that during the past six years, Houston civilians reported officers for “use of force”—the department’s term for police brutality—588 times. The Internal Affairs division investigated each complaint and dismissed all but four.”
Read MorePrivacy Scandal: NSA Can Spy on Smart Phone Data
“The United States’ National Security Agency intelligence-gathering operation is capable of accessing user data from smart phones from all leading manufacturers. Top secret NSA documents that SPIEGEL has seen explicitly note that the NSA can tap into such information on Apple iPhones, BlackBerry devices and Google’s Android mobile operating system.”
Read MoreDrivers’ $1 donation yields little for organ donors and their families
“The fund has raised about $10 million since 2000, including about $1 million or 10 percent that a state law designated to help organ donors’ families pay funeral and medical expenses. But none of the money has been spent to defray those bills, a Tribune-Review investigation found. Even after the state started a smaller program…
Read MorePayoffs alleged at assisted living centers
“The 2011 documents allege several instances of state inspectors taking bribes, one of many problems found in a six-month investigation of assisted living facilities by U-T San Diego and the CHFC Center for Health Reporting at the University of Southern California.”
Read MoreLeft With Nothing
“This man owed $134 in property taxes. The District sold the lien to an investor who foreclosed on his $197,000house and sold it. He and many other homeowners like him were left with nothing.”
Read MoreLeft in limbo, hundreds of Minnesotans with mental illness languish in jail
“Hundreds of inmates with dangerous psychiatric problems languish in county jails across the state.”
Read MoreR.I. DMV computer project is years behind schedule / Poll
“The state government started trying to replace the Division of Motor Vehicles’ antiquated computer system in 2006, with the new system ostensibly to be working in mid-2010.”
Read MoreDangerous pursuit: Austin police foot chases can lead to injuries, shootings
“Nearly a third of Austin police shootings — some fatal — came after chases on foot”
Read MoreLearn to build a web scraper at IRE’s new workshop
A special workshop in programming for journalism, Oct. 10-13, 2013 at the University of Missouri-Columbia. IRE and the University of Missouri Journalism School are offering a special workshop Oct. 10-13 that will introduce the basics of newsroom programming by teaching how to build one of the simplest but most useful tools in a data journalist’s toolbox: a web scraper…
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