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Toxic aftermath: Decades later, PBB contamination suspected in illnesses and deaths

The Detroit Free Press has found that four decades after an agricultural disaster allowed the chemical polybrominated biphenyl into the food and water of nine out of 10 Michigan residents […]
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Oversight board had little say in History Museum land purchase

After the Missouri History Museum spent $875,000 of its $10 million in tax dollars to purchase “a shuttered restaurant site from a former mayor,” the St. Louis Post-Dispatch found, via […]
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Wisconsin forestry tax break program gives taxpayers bill, landowners benefit

There are more than 1 million acres in Wisconsin open to the public through a forestry tax break program. Good news for hunters and hikers ... if only they could […]
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Los Angeles Times finds dispatchers waste valuable time on 911 calls

An internal study obtained by the Los Angeles Times shows that Los Angeles Fire Department dispatchers waste valuable time getting 911 callers to start CPR on cardiac arrest victims, possibly leading […]
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Dayton Daily News finds wasteful mileage reimbursements in Ohio cities, counties

Many city and county governments in Ohio pay employees more for mileage reimbursements than the state government does, and they could save hundreds of thousands of dollars annually if they […]
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Washington Post exposes secretive deals, billions in unexplained property tax reductions

In an ongoing series, The Washington Post's Debbie Cenziper and Nikita Stewart identified $2.6 billion in unexplained property tax reductions, made through secretive, back-room deals, for hundreds of influential developers […]
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Washington state's price of public office

The Skagit Valley Herald reports that even though "Skagit County has just two full-time mayors, both earn more than the mayors of Tacoma, Vancouver, Yakima and Olympia." An interactive map […]
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Mental health patients falling through the safety net

KUOW's John Ryan reports that "in the past decade, a dozen patients of Washington’s Western State Hospital have killed themselves and more than a hundred others have tried." "Suicide is […]
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DCFS failing to protect Illinois children

In a report by The Chicago Reporter it has been found that "despite the Illinios Department of Child and Family Services involvement, many children die at the hands of their […]
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Utah's Transit Authority officials travel the world

Documents obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune have revealed that Utah's Transit Authority CEO has spent more than $600,000 on international travel. Trips range from China to the United Arab […]
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