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The Pangolin Reports

Criminal syndicates in Africa and Asia are working together and competing to meet the seemingly insatiable demand for pangolins in China and other markets. Journalists from countries across the trafficking route documented how this underground trade risks wiping out the species.
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Dental Board's Lax Oversight Fails Patients

Over five months, Art Kane was able to document repeated instances of the board failing to discipline dentists who injured patients through faulty dental work. Art also uncovered and documented unethical conflicts by board members - and the boards failure to abide by state open meetings laws.
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Riot at Red Rock Canyon School

A riot broke out at a Utah residential treatment center for troubled youths last April that left several students injured and spurred state authorities to threaten to pull Red Rock Canyon Schools license to operate. As a Salt Lake Tribune reporter began looking into the licensing action, it became clear that the riot wasnt an isolated incident.
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Unregulated, untested, unknown

A four-month Policy Watch investigation found very high concentrations of a toxic substance, 1,4-Dioxane, in a shipment of wastewater sludge to a major composting facility in North Carolina. The composting facility then sent material made with this contaminated sludge for use in city parks, sports fields, gardens and agricultural land.
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OHare's billions in broken promises

In 2018, when Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the city intended to spend more than $8 billion to rehab OHare International Airport, a Better Government Association investigative reporter asked a simple question: Havent we done this before?
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How the University of Utahs police department treated female victims and officers for years before Lauren McCluskeys killing

This story by the Salt Lake Tribune details how staff and victims were mistreated by the campus police department at the University of Utah, leading up to the murder of student-athlete Lauren McCluskey.
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Public Failure, Internal Strife, Lawsuits: Blue Ducks Short Ride Through San Antonio

Blue Duck sold a public image of being effective, fun and professional operation that like many electric scooter companies was trying to shake up urban transportation. What KSTX found was a toxic workplace culture, wasted investor funds, and mismanagement.
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Critics worry about food safety as federal meat inspectors face work overload, burnout

Short staffing and mismanagement in the USDA's meat inspection arm the Food Safety and Inspection Service is leading to situations in which slaughterhouses and meat processing plants are not receiving the proper oversight to protect consumers from foodborne illness. Over the last decade or so, as the staffing problems at FSIS have grown, the United States has seen an over 80 percent increase in meat-related recalls.
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Controversial pesticide use sees dramatic increase across the Midwest

Farmers have been using the weed killer glyphosate a key ingredient of the product Roundup at soaring levels even as glyphosate has become increasingly less effective and as health concerns and lawsuits mount. A review of the agencys data by the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting shows that farmers across the Midwest used an estimated 188.7 million pounds of glyphosate in 2016, nearly 40 times more than in 1992 when they used a total of 4.6 million pounds.
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Lobbyists and the Power of Access

A Newsday story shows how long-time friends and relatives help top lobbyists to cash in on the lucrative power of access to top New York officials who decide on policy and spending.
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