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Long Island Divided

At a time when federal, state and local governments have sharply reduced fair housing enforcement, Newsday posed the question: What role, if any, do real estate agents play in supporting the division of races and ethnicities on Long Island, a suburb that has long remained one of America’s most segregated places to live?

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Serial rapists targeted women in Aurora. This woman got justice.

In 2018, a KUOW reporter covering Aurora Avenue in Seattle when she learned that a rapist was targeting women working in prostitution there. She started looking into this case and then learned that four more men were being investigated for serially raping women on the track. A culture of terror pervaded the track – that’s what this stretch of highway is called – as the reporter developed relationships with working women who shared their experiences. Meanwhile, the police were also getting involved, searching for these men and bringing them to justice.

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Vanishing Violence

Youth crime had plummeted to historic lows over two decades. The specter of violent young “super predators” who inspired fear in the mid-1990s had faded. Yet this shift remained largely unrecognized and unexplored, its implications misunderstood by policymakers. The Chronicle set out to measure the crime drop and determine what it meant. The result was “Vanishing Violence,” a series that not only documented plunging crime but revealed harmful and costly failures by leaders to respond to the historic trend.

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Unprotected: Broken promises in Georgia's senior care industry

The assisted living industry exploded in Georgia over the past decade as investors rushed to cash in on the graying of America. They built facilities with resort-like amenities and promised great care, for a price of thousands of dollars a month. But as this senior housing boom took hold, Georgia failed to provide adequate oversight, according to reporting by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the fancy chandeliers and expensive amenities hid the realities of an industry where for-profit owners are more focused on real estate deals than properly caring for vulnerable seniors.

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Harvard University's fencing scandal

The Boston Globe broke the story of an extraordinary land deal involving Harvard’s fencing coach and the father of a recruit. It was the first in a series of reports uncovering a multifaceted, multimillion dollar scheme to help get the wealthy businessman’s sons into Harvard and thrusting the university into the roiling national conversation about the role of money and corruption in college acceptances.

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#MeToo was supposed to fix things. But women in N.J. politics say they've been groped, harassed - and worse.

We had heard the rumors for years. Women working in New Jersey politics regularly faced discrimination, sexual harassment and even assault. But the stories were never publicly discussed and no one had taken a look at what it means to be a woman trying to survive a hostile environment seemingly unchanged by the #MeToo movement.

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College admissions scandal

After the US attorney in Boston announced the prosecution of the so-called Varsity Blues case, The Boston Globe looked to illuminate how the bribery scheme was carried out and what other similar abuses we might find, beyond the case described by the government.

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The Hidden Titans of Pot

This Boston Globe investigation focused on the fledgling marijuana industry in Massachusetts, which had hoped to represent a new kind of capitalism with social justice priorities. Lawmakers made history when the state legalized marijuana, not because it was the first to do so, but because it was the first to codify equity goals and try to limit the expansion of big business. But early on, there were signs that state regulators were outmatched by the hidden maneuvers of large multistate operators with deep pockets.

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Make Your Date

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan used his influence to get Wayne State University officials to create a nonprofit to address infant mortality in Detroit, then he ordered high-ranking city officials to conduct fundraising efforts for the program, whose director, Sonia Hassan, was the noted Wayne State physician personally linked to Duggan through the video-recorded suburban rendezvous, a Detroit Free Press investigation found.

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Small town politics, Chicago style government

For years, residents’ complaints about Mayor Christopher Getty of Lyons, a suburb on the outskirts of Chicago, and his administration fell on deaf ears even though many of their objections rang true. They certainly did for a Better Government Association reporter, who decided it was about time someone tried to get to the truth of what was going on in Lyons.

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