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DWP says it can't track millions in ratepayer money

“DWP ratepayer funds flow to two groups run by agency managers and union leaders, with little accountability.”
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Metro Phoenix housing market's turnaround creates new issues

Now, buyers and renters live in those places — in properties re-floored, repainted and relandscaped. The number of empty houses in the Phoenix area today stands at about 10,000, according […]
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Alternative vaccine schedules mean fewer students fully immunized

inewsource in San Diego today reports that "a trend toward giving children fewer shots at one time, combined with continued skepticism about vaccines’ safety, means more kindergarteners than ever in […]
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How Detroit went broke: The answers may surprise you

Detroit is broke, but it didn’t have to be. An in-depth Detriot Free Press analysis of the city’s financial history back to the 1950s shows that its elected officials and […]
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Philadelphia Schools face downsizing, closures

Philadelphia’s School Reform Commission (SRC), voted on a controversial budget last May that eliminated counselors, sports, secretaries, librarians, music and art teachers and support safety staff at public schools in the […]
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Pretrial detainees on the rise in New York

WNYC News reports that "over the past decade, as New York City’s backlog of felony cases has grown, so too has the time defendants are spending behind bars before trial. […]
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Errors plague school testing

AJC reporter Heather Vogell exposed cracks in a cornerstone of No Child Left Behind: flawed exams. Questions with no right answers; scoring errors; test booklets with missing pages can cost […]
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Adviser didn’t disclose tax liens

An Atlanta investment adviser public pensions across the nation to sink millions into his firm’s funds. But as he criss-crossed the country touting the investment, he had not disclosed his […]
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Boomers' embrace of devices gives rise to new med-tech age

"Hundreds of thousands of Americans are receiving medical devices that were once considered nearly exclusive to the elderly. The shift is profoundly changing patient care and expanding the fortunes of […]
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Many US bridges old, risky and rundown

An Associated Press analysis of 607,380 bridges in the most recent federal National Bridge Inventory showed that 65,605 were classified as "structurally deficient" and 20,808 as "fracture critical." Of those, […]
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