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Chris Christie’s Tunnel Tango
by Cezary Podkul When we wrote in April about New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s budget “sins,” one of the biggest was the money shuffle he engineered after his 2010 decision to kill an $8.7 billion...
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Company That Sued Soldiers Closes Its Stores
by Paul Kiel For the first time in its history, USA Discounters is living up to its name. For years, the company has specialized in selling marked-up appliances, electronics and furniture to service...
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When Only 15% of Defendants Can Afford $500 Bail and More in Muckreads Weekly
by Terry Parris Jr. h3 { font-size:1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:1.4em; } blockquote { line-height: 1.5em; } Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email?...
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NSA Spying Relies on AT&T’s ‘Extreme Willingness to Help’
by Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson, ProPublica; Charlie Savage and James Risen, The New York Times; and Henrik Moltke and Laura Poitras, special to ProPublica, ProPublica How We Reported It Share on...
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A Trail of Evidence Leading to AT&T’s Partnership with the NSA
by Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson, ProPublica; and Henrik Moltke and Laura Poitras, special to ProPublica, ProPublica Read Main Story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Pep Montserrat,...
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‘Half Bemused, Half Really Afraid’: What It’s Like Reporting on the High Seas
by Minhee Cho .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} There's an old saying in journalism that there are no new stories, everything's been done before,...
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Nonprofit Explorer
by Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei We’ve updated our Nonprofit Explorer app with over 600,000 new tax filings from FY2013. Use the database to search over 1.8 million tax returns from tax-exempt organizations.
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Red Cross CEO Tried to Kill Government Investigation
by Justin Elliott This story was co-produced with NPR. American Red Cross CEO Gail McGovern has long portrayed her organization as a beacon of openness, once declaring “we made a commitment that we...
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A Trail of Evidence Leading to AT&T’s Partnership with the NSA
by Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson, ProPublica; and Henrik Moltke and Laura Poitras, special to ProPublica, ProPublica Read Main Story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate Pep Montserrat,...
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Speed Bumps: Why It’s So Hard to Catch Cheaters in Track and Field
by David Epstein, ProPublica, and Michael J. Joyner, special to ProPublica, Earlier this month, London’s Sunday Times and German broadcaster ARD published a joint investigation on doping in track and...
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ProPublica’s ‘Get Involved’ Aims to Spur More Crowd-Powered News
by Amanda Zamora Over the next year, with the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, ProPublica will be working to improve how we engage communities to help us create journalism that...
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Show Me a Hero: a Q&A With David Simon
by Marcelo Rochabrun David Simon’s new HBO miniseries “Show Me a Hero,” which premiered last Sunday, is the harrowing tale of a hopeless battle. Based on a nonfiction book of the same title – written...
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Treatment Tracker
by Lena Groeger , Ryann Grochowski Jones and Charles Ornstein We’ve updated our database of Medicare’s payments to individual doctors and other health professionals serving the 49 million seniors and...
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Why 5 Elementary Schools Had More Violence Than 17 High Schools In Same...
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How to Investigate Workers’ Comp In Your State
by Michael Grabell With income inequality and economic fairness at the center of national discussion, workers' compensation provides the perfect lens for examining how the social compact has changed....
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ProPublica Partners With Beacon to Promote Workers’ Comp Reporting
by Amanda Zamora Today, ProPublica is teaming up with the journalism crowdfunding site Beacon to encourage more coverage of workers' comp across the country. Nearly a century after most states...
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How Yelp is Evolving in the Era of Big Data
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} Yelp may be best known for its restaurant and nightclub reviews, but the site’s seeds were...
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‘No Place for a Kid to Go’
by Joaquin Sapien ProPublica Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment Donate ‘No Place for a Kid to Go’ In Long Beach, California, a group home for troubled children sinks into crisis. by Joaquin...
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The Best Defense Is Good Offense: DOJ Challenges Local Public Defense Programs
by Lauren Kirchner Shortly before Attorney General Eric Holder announced his resignation last September, he told an interviewer: “Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her...
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Activists Pursue Private Abortion Details Using Public Records Laws
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with the Washington Post. A few years back, Jonathan Bloedow filed a series of requests under Washington state’s Public Records Act asking for details...
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