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Brown's e-mails reveal FEMA reaction to Katrina

Daniel Lathrop and John Perry of The Center for Public Integrity used FOIA to obtain e-mail records of former FEMA head Michael Brown, showing that "while many residents were awaiting […]
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L.A. county soft on employee discipline

Troy Anderson of the Los Angeles Daily News reviewed records to show that in recent years county employees' firings or suspensions were softened by the Civil Service Commission. The commission […]
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Patients denied kidneys because of paperwork

Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein of the Los Angeles Times used interviews, internal memos and transplant records to show that 25 Kaiser Permanente patients in Northern California were denied the […]
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Homes remain out of reach for many

Gina Edwards, Deirdre Conner and Kori Rumore of the Naples Daily News analyzed real estate transactions culled from property appraiser records to show how the real estate market has shifted. […]
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Analysis paints picture of killers, victims

Jo Craven McGinty of The New York Times analyzed homicide records over the past three years to provide a detailed description of New York killers and their victims. From 2003 […]
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Taxpayers subsidize college athletics

Mark Alesia of The Indianapolis Star finds that "athletic departments at taxpayer-funded universities nationwide receive more than $1 billion in student fees and general school funds and services." The investigation […]
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Overtime a burden in N.H. town

Andrew Nelson of The (Nashua, N.H.) Telegraph used city payroll records to look at overtime costs. While the city is laying off schoolteachers, it continues to pay $9 million a […]
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Politicians use leadership PACs for campaign contributions

Deirdre Shesgreenand and Jaimi Dowdell of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch used campaign records to show that leadership PACs, set up separately from regular re-election accounts, are an increasingly popular tool […]
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Police use homeland security grants to keep tabs

David E. Kaplan of U.S. News & World Report identified nearly a dozen cases in which city and county police, in the name of homeland security, have surveilled or harassed […]
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Students often call police about peers' parties

Brian Charlton and Don Jordan of The State News at Michigan State University analyzed noise and party violations from 2004 and 2005, including 1,025 noise, 41 unlawful party and two […]
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