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Volunteer firefighting companies riddled with problems

The News Journal’s three-part series on Delaware’s volunteer firefighters exposed slow response times, manpower shortages, archaic rules and lopsided funding formulas, as well as potential solutions and alternatives to the […]
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Obama found support in Oklahoma's urban precincts

Oklahoma voters gave Republican Sen. John McCain one of his largest margins of victory over Democrat Barack Obama in the presidential election earlier this month. But an analysis of precinct […]
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Know Parking Here series

A project by CTV-British Columbia and ESRI Canada mapped parking ticket trends in Vancouver.   Through a freedom of information request, CTV received digital copies of all the parking tickets issued […]
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Urban sprawl remains a problem in Fresno

A series by Brad Branan of The Fresno Bee looks at problems with how the city of Fresno, Calif. regulates development. Despite a plan to curb urban sprawl, it continues […]
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Road repairs slower in minority neighborhoods

Keegan Kyle, Grant Smith and Ben Poston of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel analyzed more than 11,000 pothole fixes in the city of Milwaukee and found that the city repaired potholes […]
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Gas price secrets revealed

A series by The Cincinnati Enquirer analyzed a daily price database of gas prices at 716 stations in the Greater Cincinnati region, including northern Kentucky and southeastern Indiana, to better […]
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Billions needed to repair deficient bridges in U.S.

Marisol Bello of USA TODAY reported that billions of dollars will be needed to repair deficient bridges throughout the U.S. Twelve percent of the bridges throughout the U.S. currently rate […]
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A decade of homicide in Tulsa

An examination of records from Oklahoma's Medical Examiner’s Office and Health Department by the Tulsa World showed that over 500 people have been murdered in Tulsa over the past 10 […]
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Mapping shows lottery winnings not evenly distributed

Patrick Lakamp and Susan Schulman of The Buffalo News mapped lottery sales and total winnings for more than 1,500 lottery retailers in western New York. The data showed that $60 […]
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Toxic Neighbors

A Dallas Morning News investigation has found dozens of sites with hazardous chemicals that are in close proximity to residential neighborhoods. It is a problem throughout Dallas County. In some […]
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