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City denies request for records

David Madrid of The Arizona Republic reports on the results of a public records request the paper made asking council members in Surprise, Ariz., "to verify the miles and percentage […]
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Contamination levels still high years after discovery

Wade Rawlins of The (Raleigh/Durham) News & Observer reports on toxic chemicals that have been contaminating local water sources for the last 15 years. "Ward Transformer spilled thousands of gallons […]
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State's teacher salaries outpace national average

Maria Sacchetti of The Boston Globe used state education records to show that "average teacher pay in Massachusetts jumped 37 percent during the last decade, to $53,529 last year." That's […]
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Regulators drop toxic chemical warning after plant lawyer complains

Ken Ward Jr. of the Charleston Gazette used the federal Freedom of Information Act to obtain records showing that a plan by West Virginia environmental regulators to warn residents of […]
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Drug lobby spends millions to influence legislation

A team from The Center for Public Integrity reports on spending by the pharmaceutical and health products industry on lobbyists. "The drug industry's huge investments in Washington — though meager […]
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Concerns raised over Guard's possible spying

Army investigators and a state senator are examining California's National Guard after Dion Nissenbaum of the San Jose Mercury News reported the Guard established an intelligence unit that has "been […]
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Drug industry's influence drives doctors' diagnoses

Susan Kelleher and Duff Wilson interviewed more than 160 doctors, patients, medical analysts, regulatory officials and other experts for a Seattle Times series about the health care industry and the […]
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Dog owners receive majority of tickets

Chris Barge of the Boulder Daily Camera analyzed city animal enforcement records to show that "roughly seven out of every 10 tickets written by Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks […]
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Data shows heart attack death numbers declining

Stephen Smith of The Boston Globe used state data to show that "deaths from heart attacks in Massachusetts dropped by 24 percent in eight years," a decline doctors attributed to […]
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Study finds high levels of pollutants in Calif. family

Douglas Fischer of Alameda Newspaper Group spent nine months investigating chemical pollutants in a family that "lives at one end of the consumer-chemicals spectrum — they eat organic, avoid common […]
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