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Lack of tough measures result in deaths

Gregg Jones and Doug Swanson of The Dallas Morning News use a fatal 2004 truck accident near Dallas to illustrate many of the problems in the trucking industry. Miroslaw Jozwiak, […]
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Inequities found in property taxes

Andrew Nelson, Bill Dedman and Matt Hersh of The Telegraph used city records to show that thousands of homeowners in Nashua, N.H. are paying too much in property taxes because […]
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Dallas fails to collect parking fines

Dave Levinthal and Molly Motley Blythe of The Dallas Morning News analyzed city records to show that Dallas City Hall, perennially strapped for cash, is owed at least $40 million […]
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Fla. fails to inspect elevators regularly

John McCarthy of Florida Today reviewed reports by local, state and federal agencies to show the state agency that oversees elevators has failed to ensure proper inspections as state law […]
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Federal loans granted for risky businesses

Ben Welsh of the Columbia Missourian used Small Business Administration loan records to show that over the past five years, the number of government-backed loans to Columbia's bars and restaurants […]
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Taxpayer money goes to gifts, travel

Ryan J. Stanton of the Northwest Explorer, a weekly newspaper that covers the northern suburbs of the Tucson, Ariz., area, investigated how local officials are spending taxpayer money. For the […]
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Official invests despite possible conflict of interest

Joni James of the St. Petersburg Times reviewed tax returns to show that Florida's elected insurance commissioner, Tom Gallagher, invested millions of dollars in insurance-related stocks in his last year […]
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School district loans are unreasonable burden on taxpayers

Jeffrey Gaunt and Emily Krone of the Daily Herald , outside Chicago, analyzed 206 suburban school district loans to show many taxpayers repay those loans at rates higher than they […]
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Highway plan too costly to execute

Tim Darragh of The Morning Call investigated why the move to widen a local highway, Route 22, seemed highly unlikely, despite the backing of several powerful groups. "The widening plan […]
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Denver code enforcement cases on the rise

Daniel J. Chacón of the Rocky Mountain News used local data to show that code-enforcement cases in Denver increased more than 12 percent between 2004 and 2005 and by more […]
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