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Pentagon mentor system to be overhauled

Tom Vanden Brook and Ken Dilanian of USA Today? report that Defense Secretary Robert Gates "ordered an overhaul of the Pentagon's use of retired senior officers to advise the military, […]
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Hawaii's long-term-care system for elderly fraught with problems

In a four-part series, Rob Perez of the Honolulu Advertiser found Hawaii's long-term-care system for the elderly is fraught with problems, including a placement system tainted by kickbacks and fraud. […]
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Over 51,000 hired after state imposed hiring freeze

Using electronic payroll records, Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y) reporter Delen Goldberg found that New York state officials hired 51,000 people at a cost to taxpayers of more than $1 billion in […]
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Identity revealed in fatality at CIA secret prison

The name of the only known fatality from a secret prison network that the CIA operated overseas after the 9/11 attacks is finally known, due to an Associated Press investigation […]
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Personnel law in North Carolina shrouds records in secrecy

Keeping Secrets, a three-part series by The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)  for Sunshine Week, found North Carolina's 35-year-old personnel law is among the most secretive in the nation, barring […]
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Special probabtion protects dangerous drivers

Joe Mahr and Gerry Smith of the Chicago Tribune did a computer analysis of state police speeding tickets and driving records. They found that nearly two-thirds of the time, people […]
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Nanomaterials may pose serious health risk

Once confined to cutting-edge labs, nanotechnology has an increasingly pervasive place in everyday life. Its ultra-tiny engineered particles are  now in as many as 10,000 products. A series by Andrew […]
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Seismic safety repairs slow at public universities

Nearly 180 public university buildings in California used by tens of thousands of people have been judged dangerous to occupy during a major earthquake — including libraries, classroom buildings, student […]
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Some Massachusetts companies abused job creation tax breaks

Todd Wallack of The Boston Globe reports on the misuse of the Massachusetts' Economic Development Incentive Program which provides tax incentives to companies that invest and create jobs in the […]
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Nominee's links to TSA contractors raise ethics concerns

Last week, President Obama nominated Army Maj. Gen. Robert Harding to head the Transportation Security Administration, but Harding's ties to several TSA contractors via Harding Security, a firm he founded […]
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