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Obama Administration silently diverting funds to IRS to enact Health Care Reform

The Hill has uncovered that the Obama administration has been quietly diverting funds to the IRS in order to implement their new health care reform law- to the tune of […]
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Yearlong investigation leads to the appointment of a special prosecutor

A yearlong Chicago Sun-Times investigation by reporters Tim Novak and Chris Fusco, with Carol Marin, led a judge to agree Friday, April 8 to appoint a special prosecutor to re-examine […]
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Hundreds of traffic tickets dismissed by municipal judge

Through a public information request The Monitor has found that a municipal judge, in Hidalgo, Texas, doesn't mind handing out favors. From January 2010 to April 2011 839 citations were […]
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Amazon's role in Seattle charities

The Seattle Times takes a look, in a four-part series, at how Amazon.com, "one of the Internet's most-recognized name brands" compares to other big companies in the Seattle area when […]
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Ohio businesses abusing disabled vet funds

"A Dayton Daily News examination has found that federal agencies have awarded tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded contracts to businesses operating in Ohio that claimed to be owned […]
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School test scores raise questions across the nation

"Suspicious test scores in roughly 200 school districts resemble those that entangled Atlanta in the biggest cheating scandal in American history, an investigation by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution shows." To learn […]
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NYPD using counterterrorism tactics on lawful citizens

Adam Goldman and Matt Apuzzo, for the Associated Press, report that undercover NYPD officers attended meetings of liberal political organizations and kept intelligence files on activists who planned protests around […]
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New York's Freedom of Information Law fails concerned parents

Elmira Star-Gazette reporter Jason Whong showed that despite having the benefit of the newspaper's archives and knowing where to look and which dates to research, New York's Freedom of Information […]
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Million-dollar hospital bills on the rise

Phillip Reese and Darrell Smith, of The Sacramento Bee, analyzed hospital discharge data from the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to determine that, "The number of Northern California […]
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Justice program fails to commit nation's most dangerous sex offenders

Six years ago, the federal government set out to indefinitely detain some of the nation's most dangerous sex offenders, keeping them locked up even after their prison sentences had ended. […]
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