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“Thousands of vacant homes across South Florida have deteriorated into eyesores that violate local health and safety laws, depress property values and spread blight. The owners of these homes: some of the world’s biggest banks.” “In an extensive investigation of foreclosed homes plaguing neighborhoods, the Sun Sentinel found more than 10,300 property code violations lodged…
Read More“South Carolina’s House speaker is affiliated with a political action committee that has doled out hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations and private contracts to sitting state lawmakers.” “According to publicly filed data analyzed by The Post and Courier, the Speaker’s PAC has channeled about a half-million dollars in the last four years to…
Read MoreWe are pleased to announce that Elizabeth Lucas is joining IRE today as the new director of our National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR) Database Library. Liz comes to IRE from the Center for Public Integrity, where she analyzed data for investigative projects on political, environmental and health topics. Among the projects she worked on…
Read More“Reese Dunklin and Sue Goetinck Ambrose of The Dallas Morning News document how former UT Southwestern Medical Center president Kern Wildenthal used public money to build wine cellars, pay for his opera interests and travel to paradises around the world.” “The investigation details a collapse in controls over taxpayer dollars and triggered a University of Texas system…
Read More“To keep tabs on super PACs, and as of today, super donors, The Center for Public Integrity has a project to “out” the shadowy political organizations that have flourished in the wake of the Citizens United ruling.” Consider the Source “provides narrative to behind the flow of money and how the election is influencing a…
Read MoreMac Cerullo, of The Daily Campus, reports that the “University of Connecticut sold fewer tickets to the 2011 Fiesta Bowl than any other public school that has appeared in the Bowl Championship Series over the past three years, according to bowl documents obtained.” Cerullo found that the school ended up absorbing nearly $3 million in…
Read Moreis Friday 4/27 to be listed on the absentee ballots. * Seven seats up for election on IRE board The filing period has begun for those planning to run for the IRE board of directors. Seven seats on the 13-member board are up for election. The election will be held June 16 at the IRE…
Read MoreMonday April 30, is the deadline to join IRE or renew your membership and you’ll be entered in a drawing for one of three prizes: * Three hotel nights and free registration for the IRE Conference in Boston, June 14-17 * Two additional years of IRE membership at no cost * $50 in merchandise from…
Read More“Two New Jersey state troopers have been suspended without pay and a station commander reassigned after an investigation by Christopher Baxter of The Star-Ledger uncovered that State Police led two escorts of luxury sports cars at speeds reportedly in excess of 100 mph on some of the state’s busiest highways.” “One of the caravans, headed…
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