Search results for:
Behind the Story: The reality of Oklahoma’s Quality Jobs Program
Last month, the Oklahoma Impact Team for KWTV News 9 in Oklahoma City and KOTV News on 6 in Tulsa, Okla., examined the much-touted Oklahoma Quality Jobs Program to see if it works as intended or amounts to a corporate giveaway. They found that three-quarters of a billion dollars in tax rebates have been awarded…
Read MoreMA state departments spending hundreds of thousands on bottled water
The MetroWest Daily News reports that “according to Open Checkbook, a Massachusetts state website touted by officials as a means to improve governmental transparency, state departments, little by little, have racked up almost $300,000 since July on bottles of Poland Spring and other water brands, and water coolers.” “With seven months to go in fiscal…
Read MoreLawmakers in North Carolina collecting money despite absences
A WXII12 investigation found that lawmakers in the North Carolina General Assembly can collect money, including subsistence money for meals and lodging while in session, whether they show up for work or not. WXII12 reports that “The legislative manual says lawmakers can waive the money by filing a waiver. Otherwise, O’Neil reported, the money comes…
Read MoreBeef’s Raw Edges
“The Kansas City Star, in a yearlong investigation, found that the beef industry is increasingly relying on a mechanical process to tenderize meat, exposing Americans to higher risk of E. coli poisoning. The industry then resists labeling such products, leaving consumers in the dark. The result: Beef in America is plentiful and affordable, spun out in…
Read MoreDying For Relief: Reckless prescribing, patients endangered
According to an investigation by the Los Angeles Times, “By the time the medical board stopped Estiandan from prescribing, more than four years after it began investigating, eight of his patients had died of overdoses or related causes, according to coroners’ records. It was not an isolated case of futility by California’s medical regulators. The board…
Read MoreNY mostly ignored reports warning of superstorm
According to an investigation by the Associated Press, “More than three decades before Superstorm Sandy, a state law and a series of legislative reports began warning New York politicians to prepare for a storm of historic proportions, spelling out scenarios eerily similar to what actually happened: a towering storm surge; overwhelming flooding; swamped subway lines;…
Read MorePublic pension ‘spiking’: Overtime hours soar for St. Paul fire supervisors
“The Pioneer Press is publishing an on-going series of articles that examine issues surrounding the financial health of Minnesota s public employee pensions, which cover more than 450,000 current and retired workers and pays out more than $3 billion in benefits each year.”
Read MoreBorder Patrol faces little accountability
“Even as the number of shootings by agents increases, the system for holding them accountable remains complicated and opaque, leaving the public in the dark about the status of the cases, an Arizona Daily Star investigation has found. One Arizona case has remained secret and “ongoing” for almost three years.”
Read MoreAlarms at Wheaton Complex were disabled
According to an investigation by the Springfield News-Leader, the fire alarms in apartments in Wheaton, Mo., for low-income residents where four adults and a child died in a Thanksgiving Day fire were disabled a decade ago by the company that manages the apartments. The company, Bell Management, Inc., of Joplin manages about 3,700 apartments in…
Read MoreBest of Broadcast DVD for sale in resource center
If you’re looking for award winning tips and tricks on how to make your broadcast video stand out from the rest you won’t want to pass up this collection of interviews. Included are interviews with Earl Nurse Jr of CNN for his work on the 2011 Tom Renner award winning piece: Death in the Desert,…
Read More