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Driving after losing your license not uncommon

Andy Nelesen of the Green Bay Press-Gazette used county data to show that driving after losing your license (known as OAR) isn't uncommon: "In 2003 and 2004, more than 250 […]
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Lack of oversight fuels fraud suspicions

Miles Moffeit of The Denver Post used purchasing and accounting records to find that "since 2001, Jefferson County employees have handled millions of dollars in transactions without competitive bidding, close […]
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Officials free gas card raises questions

Hal Marcovitz of The (Allentown) Morning Call used county records to show that Bucks County "Chief Operating Officer David M. Sanko obtains free gas at the county pumps for a […]
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Art collectors go untaxed in Washington

An investigation by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer found that "millions of dollars in purchases by Washington art collectors have gone untaxed, and that an agent's effort to collect that revenue was […]
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D.C. subway system suffers from mismanagement

Lyndsey Layton and Jo Becker of The Washington Post obtained and reviewed documents and data on the performance of the DC-area subway system, finding that "trains break down 64 percent […]
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Stipend boosts school official's pay

Rosalind Rossi of the Chicago Sun-Times, with assistance from Art Golub and Dave McKinney, used Illinois state records to find that "the highest-paid public school employee in the state last […]
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Schools fail to report all crime

An investigation by the Charlotte Observer has found that a lot more violent and threatening behavior takes place in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools than officials disclose in the state's public report on […]
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State homeland security problems uncovered

Bert Dalmer of The Des Moines Register reports on an analysis done by the Register using Iowa's critical-asset list. The list "has played a key part in determining how the […]
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Jail information system glitches kept incarcerated inmates longer

James M. O'Neill of The Dallas Morning News used documents and court records to show that Dallas County Jail's new Adult Information System has resulted in "at least 40 cases […]
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Flaws found in sex offender registry

Kirk Mitchell and Sean Kelly of The Denver Post investigated Colorado's system for notifying communities about sexually violent offenders, finding that "since a state law went into effect in 1999, […]
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