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Bill could make wetlands easier to destroy

Craig Pittman and Matthew Waite of the St. Petersburg Times used a social network analysis program analysis and documents to show that "a developers' lobbyist helped write a state bill […]
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Adoption deal raises concerns over surrogate program

Kevin Corcoran of The Indianapolis Star investigates a child welfare case involving a surrogate mothers program. The program granted an adoption to a 58-year-old, single, schoolteacher who was approved, despite […]
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Problems plague food safety system

Tim Darragh and Christopher Schnaars of The (Allentown) Morning Call uses restaurant inspection data to investigate food safety in Lehigh Valley and Pennsylvania. They found that Pennsylvania's "patchwork of food […]
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Most traffic chases caused by minor infractions

Eunice Trotter, Tom Spalding and Mark Nichols of The Indianapolis Star analyzed police pursuit data to investigate the 86 deaths Indiana saw in the last decade following police chases. They […]
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Medicare often pays hospitals to practice bad medicine

Gilbert M. Gaul of The Washington Post reports in a three-part series that Medicare policies often pay hospitals to practice medicine poorly. "In a four-year period, 106 heart patients at […]
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Allegations pile up in Denver church scandal

Eric Gorski of The Denver Post uses church documents and interviews to investigate claims that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Denver was told "at least three times of child sex-abuse […]
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Housing bond falls short on promises

John Hill of The Sacramento Bee found that a $2.1 billion bond California voters approved to provide affordable housing hasn't delivered. "With the pot more than half gone, a Bee […]
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Hate crimes down in New York

Jo Craven McGinty at The New York Times reported this weekend that hate crimes in the city are down 44 percent between 2000 and 2004. The crimes are broken down […]
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Thousands of city employees tied to mayor's re-election

Nearly four out of every 10 city employees in Chicago registered voters for groups that advocated for Mayor Richard Daley's re-election, a Chicago Tribune investigation found. The Tribune compared city […]
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Homicides on the rise in Milwaukee

John Diedrich and Bob Purvis at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel detail a sharp rise in the number of murders in Milwaukee this year, finding that "through Friday, 72 people have […]
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