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Breathless and Burdened
“This yearlong investigation examines how doctors and lawyers, working at the behest of the coal industry, have defeated the benefits claims of miners sick and dying of black lung, even as disease rates are on the rise and an increasing number of miners are turning to a system that was supposed to help alleviate their…
Read MoreSurgeon salesmen? Doctors profit from devices they put in patients
“Reynolds is now suing Sabit for wrongful death. One of his biggest questions centers on the screws and rods used to fuse the spine, which came from a company called Apex Medical Technologies LLC. Apex had no public phone number, website, or listing of its owners. “CBS This Morning” has learned one of its owners…
Read MoreDid 49ers’ Aldon Smith Receive Preferential Treatment from Santa Clara County Sheriff?
“Questions center on an expedited jail process and an invitation to the sheriff’s shooting range while the 49ers’ star linebacker was under investigation for owning illegal assault weapons”
Read MoreDennis Schrader’s “Little Cooperstown” exhibit raises questions about autograph authenticity
“As a grand exhibit opens to honor the “World’s Biggest Autographed Baseball Collection,” a WTSP investigation reveals not only do many of the autographs appear to be forged – but the museum exhibiting the collection ignored numerous warnings about the balls’ authenticity.”
Read MoreRaising a stink about spreading sewage on farms
“EPA regulations for the land application of biosolids are some of the most lenient in the world, requiring wastewater-treatment plants to check for just nine of some 80,000 pollutants that can make it through processing and into sewage sludge.”
Read MoreEDD’s new software has thousands of defects, some ‘critical’
“In the latest in an ongoing investigation by KCRA into the state’s new unemployment department computer system, insiders tell KCRA’s Sharokina Shams that the system’s computer upgrade is a “system failure.” The error reports they supplied from just one day’s work show that more than 1,700 problems exist with the system. This is a steady…
Read MoreThe Scholars Who Shill for Wall Street
“Academics get paid by financial firms to testify against Dodd-Frank regulations. What’s wrong with this picture?”
Read MoreMan Making Ireland Tax Avoidance Hub Proves Local Hero
“Google Inc., Facebook Inc. and LinkedIn Corp. wound up in Ireland because they could reduce their tax bills. Their success is leading European and U.S. politicians to label the country a tax haven that must change its ways. The grand architect of much of that success: Feargal O’Rourke, the scion of a political dynasty who…
Read MoreSecret memos reveal explicit nature of U.S., Pakistan agreement on drones
“Despite repeatedly denouncing the CIA’s drone campaign, top officials in Pakistan’s government have for years secretly endorsed the program and routinely received classified briefings on strikes and casualty counts, according to top-secret CIA documents and Pakistani diplomatic memos obtained by The Washington Post.”
Read MoreOne Law Firm On Both Sides of Controversy Over Alexandria Waterfront
Lawyers at McGuireWoods are on both sides of the controversy over the waterfront, the Alexandria Gazette Packet reports. They are defending Alexandria taxpayers in court while seeking approval from city officials on behalf of three separate developers at the same time. Legal experts say that’s not a conflict of interest, but neighborhood residents say it leaves…
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