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Cities and county failed to inspect fire hydrants

An investigation by Matt Dixon of The Villages Daily Sun (The Villages, Fla.) revealed that fire hydrants in Sumter County have not been regularly inspected.   A request for maintenance records […]
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Tracking pharmaceuticals in waterways inadequate

Jeff Donn, Martha Mendoza and Justin Pritchard of The Associated Press report that, "U.S. manufacturers, including major drugmakers, have legally released at least 271 million pounds of pharmaceuticals into waterways […]
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FDA wants states to monitor their own inspectors

"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants states to assess their own inspection programs, even after Georgia’s failed to prevent a salmonella outbreak traced to a Blakely peanut plant, exposing […]
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Streetlight outages plague Detroit

The Detroit Free Press looked into the on-going problem of streetlight outages in the city.  "The Free Press spent three nights in March driving more than 200 miles of city […]
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Officials withhold ticket contract information

Elise Young of northjersey.com reports that state officials refuse to provide complete public contracts with Ticketmaster. According to the article, the “arrangements give the state millions of dollars from seat […]
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Housing program fails to aid low-income families

A story by William Heisel of the Los Angeles Times focuses on the failures of the federal government’s efforts to revitalize the housing market and to increase affordable housing. For […]
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Buffett benefits from bailout

Charles Piller of The Sacramento Bee reports that billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway "owns more than $13 billion of stock in the top recipients of TARP funds – including Goldman […]
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Little-used Wisconsin bridges get federal stimulus dollars

Ben Poston and Tom Held of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel found that a vast majority of the Wisconsin bridges awarded $15.8 million of construction money in the first wave of […]
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Immigration courts have huge backlog of cases

A report by Brad Heath of USA Today reveals that the nation's immigration courts "are now so clogged that nearly 90,000 people accused of being in the United States illegally […]
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BankTracker crunches numbers from FDIC reports

An analysis of bank financial statements by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University and msnbc.com, sheds new light on just how dangerous conditions have become in many banks across […]
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