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Unaccountable: The high cost of the Pentagon's bad bookkeeping

For two decades, the U.S. military has been unable to submit to an audit, flouting federal law and concealing waste and fraud totaling billions of dollars, a Reuters investigation found. […]
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In NC medical examiner system, heavy autopsy caseloads raise risk of mistakes

Accurate autopsies help ensure that murderers don’t go free, that suspects aren’t wrongfully prosecuted and that spouses receive the life insurance payments they deserve. But in North Carolina, heavy caseloads […]
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Broken Bonds

When municipal officials want to build for the future, they have a powerful financial tool at their disposal: general obligation bonds that yield millions of borrowed dollars. The money is […]
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Utility district manager's retirement party cost customers thousands of dollars

Water customers at two Greene County utility districts helped throw a more than $6,400 retirement bash for the woman who helped lead the districts for many years, WJHL reports. Who […]
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Too Much of Too Little

Millions have crossed through the fence from Mexico to America, both legally and illegally, making Hidalgo County, Texas, one of the fastest-growing places in America. “El Futuro” is what some residents […]
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To expand Khamenei’s grip on the economy, Iran stretched its laws

A Reuters investigation into the Iranian supreme leader’s $95 billion economic empire—which was partly built on confiscating family property from ordinary citizens: Several other Iranians whose family properties were taken […]
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The Most Senseless Environmental Crime of the 20th Century

"Fifty years ago 180,000 whales disappeared from the oceans without a trace, and researchers are still trying to make sense of why." The Pacific Standard investigates one of the most […]
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Minnesota campaign finance regulators' database isn't adding up

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that the online files from the Minnesota agency charged with tracking candidate and campaign fundraising are riddled with inaccuracies, leading to errors that total as […]
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Seattle school managers get questionable OT payments

A KIRO 7 investigation finds that some at Seattle's schools may be violating the HR policy by paying overtime to select district managers who aren’t entitled to make extra money. […]
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The secret, dirty cost of Obama's green power push

The ethanol era has proven far more damaging to the environment than politicians promised and much worse than the government admits today. Farmers have wiped out millions of acres of […]
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