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Building project for neighborhood school initiative fails

Dave Umhoefer and Alan J. Borsuk of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel found in a three-part series “Subtraction by Addition” that Milwaukee Public Schools spent $102 million on a building spree […]
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Medical records breached despite privacy law

Clark Kauffman of The Des Moines Register reports that in the past five years, 38,000 Americans, including 267 Iowans, have complained of medical-privacy violations under the Health Insurance Portability and […]
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Water "dead zones" doubling each decade

A recent study shows that the number of "dead zones" in bodies of water across the globe has doubled every decade since the 1960s, reports Joel Achenbach of The Washington […]
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Man exonerated by DNA evidence after serving 18 years

Robert McClendon of Columbus, Ohio was freed from prison by a Franklin County judge after serving 18 years for a child rape that new DNA tests showed he did not […]
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No-bid contract for concert producer costs taxpayers

Reporter Mike McAndrew of The Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) used interviews, emails, contracts and other documents to show that the operators of New York's State Fair contrived the justification to award […]
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Gun lobby mole revealed

A Mother Jones investigation by James Ridgeway, Daniel Schulman and David Corn reveals that an NRA spy had infiltrated anti-gun groups for the past several years. The investigation shows that […]
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Labor exploitation rampant in Chinese-owned mining companies

In China in Africa and China in Peru, parallel investigations for Bloomberg Markets, Simon Clark, Michael Smith and Franz Wild report on the exploitation of indigenous peoples by Chinese-owned mining […]
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Renters caught in middle of foreclosure crisis

A report by Dina ElBoghdady of The Washington Post reveals that renters are becoming unwitting victims of the mortgage crisis as property owners lose houses to foreclosure. "Several localities around […]
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Population growth impacting dam safety issues

A report by Jim Getz of The Dallas Morning News looks at the impact of population growth on dam safety. The investigation "found that suburban sprawl has encroached on hundreds […]
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Homeless used for fraud at three California hospitals

An FBI raid at three Southern California hospitals uncovered "a massive scheme to defraud taxpayer-funded healthcare programs of millions of dollars by recruiting homeless patients for unnecessary medical services," according […]
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