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Nonprofit a source of ready money for city officials

A Baltimore Sun investigation reveals that a little-known private nonprofit group formed to primarily benefit city programs for the underprivileged is a source of money-on-demand for city government officials with […]
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Activist tackles Miami's housing woes

Paul Reyes, with support from the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute, reports on housing issues in Miami, Fla. where over 70,000 are on a waiting list for public housing.  […]
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Rulings by California's worker safety appeals board questioned

A Los Angeles Times investigation found that the Cal-OSHA Appeals Board "has repeatedly reduced or dismissed penalties levied by Cal-OSHA over the last few years, even in situations in which […]
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Drastic swings in test scores lead to questions of cheating

An Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation found 19 public elementary schools statewide with extraordinary gains or drops in standardized test scores between spring last year and this year &#8212 raising questions of […]
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Historical records used to identify forgotten lead smelter

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is opening an investigation of possible lead contamination in an Atlanta neighborhood after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution unearthed old documents showing that a lead smelter spewed […]
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Questionable individuals retain U.S. pilots licenses

Analysis of a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) database made available to ABCNews.com showed that "a notorious drug kingpin, a convicted arms trafficker and several other individuals linked to aviation-connected crimes […]
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Wasting Away series

In a city ravaged by the highest rate of AIDS case in the nation, the D.C. Health Department paid millions to nonprofit groups that delivered substandard services or failed to […]
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Environmental violations continue due to uneven enforcement

A review of Pennsylvania environmental records by Christopher Baxter of The Morning Call (Allentown, Penn.) found eight years of stop-and-go enforcement by the Department of Environmental Protection that allowed a […]
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International adoptions fraught with problems

David Shaffer of the Star Tribune (Minneapolis, Minn.) presented a detailed look at how foreign adoptions often lead to nothing but heartbreak for everyone involved, from the birth mother to […]
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Children failed by Los Angeles County child welfare system

A report by Kim Christensen and Garrett Therolf of The Los Angeles Times reveals that the Los Angeles County child welfare system is riddled with problems. In many cases, children […]
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