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Warning lights, gates could curb Oklahoma train accidents
According to a report by Gavin Off of the Tulsa World, Federal Railroad Administration data shows Oklahoma has recorded 1,042 train accidents from 2000 to 2007. About half involved collisions with vehicles, and most of those took place at crossings without gates or flashing lights.
Read MoreBush secretly approved orders allowing raids in Pakistan
A report by Eric Schmitt and Mark Mazzetti of The New York Times reveals that President Bush “secretly approved orders in July that for the first time allow American Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government, according to senior American officials.”
Read MoreAmerican Divide: The Immigration Crackdown
The Columbus Dispatch, in a four-part investigative series, explores the consequences in communities across the nation as states pass anti-immigration laws. The newspaper teamed with its Spanish-language weekly newspaper to produce the series, American Divide/The Immigration Crackdown. The report is available in both English and Spanish.
Read MoreThe War Within
Bob Woodward of The Washington Post details how the Bush Administration dealt with the failing Iraq strategy beginning in 2006. Woodward’s book “The War Within” is based on interviews with over 150 participants, classified documents, and taped conversations with President Bush, and “reveals that the administration’s efforts to develop a new Iraq strategy were crippled…
Read MoreSheriff’s office failed to investigate deputy’s role in fatal accident
An investigation by the St. Petersburg Times links Polk County sheriff, Sgt. Scott Larson, to a 2002 car accident that killed the car’s 16-year-old passenger, Miles White. The Polk County Sheriff’s office ruled the crash was a single-car accident caused by drunk driving. “But a Polk sheriff’s deputy — who, it turns out, was a…
Read MoreHouston cantinas hid Houston’s lucrative sex-trade
“Despite enforcement efforts, human traffickers and prostitution operators have constructed resilient and lucrative networks of organized crime that have a franchise-like ability to persist and prosper,” reports Lise Olsen of the Houston Chronicle. Cantinas, with secret doors and hidden brothels, helped conceal the active prostitution and sex slave trade in Houston. The ringleader of the…
Read MoreEmails reveal Palin’s interest in trooper’s penalty
Former public safety commissioner, Walter Monegan, shared emails with The Washington Post that reveal that Gov. Sarah Palin “harshly criticized Alaska state troopers for failing to fire her former brother-in-law and ridiculed an internal affairs investigation into his conduct,” report The Post‘s James V. Grimaldi and Karl Vick. Palin has requested the investigation into possible…
Read MoreThe battle within
A report by Erin Emery and David Olinger of The Denver Post shows that soldiers are being sent back to Afghanistan and Iraq despite the fact that they are battling both physical and mental ailments. “Facing demands unprecedented in the history of the all-volunteer force, the Army has deployed soldiers with slings and crutches and…
Read MoreFinancial crisis impacting students, schools
A New York Times report shows that the financial crisis in the United States is having an impact on schools and students across the nation. With home foreclosures mounting, a record number of students returning for school are homeless or qualify for subsidized or free lunches. “As 50 million children return to classes across the…
Read MoreRoad repairs slower in minority neighborhoods
Keegan Kyle, Grant Smith and Ben Poston of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel analyzed more than 11,000 pothole fixes in the city of Milwaukee and found that the city repaired potholes at a slower rate in minority neighborhoods in the first half of the year. Using SPSS, the analysis found that minority areas on the north…
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