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Search results for "Big Joe" ...
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Fallen Angel: Joe Gustafson lives above the law in North Minneapolis
Using public documents, confidential sources and internal information from law enforcement, the reporter told the secret history of one of North Minneapolis' organized crime rings.
Tags: Hell's Angel; bondsman; Big Joe; Little Joe; Beat-Down Posse; kidnapping; drug ring
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Concerns in Happy Valley
Penn State's football coach Joe Paterno is the winningest coach in Division I history despite the many criminal charges against his program's players over the years. A database was created using computer assisted reporting to analyze players' Pennsylvania court records over the last seven years.
Tags: Nittany Lions; off-campus; scholarship; NCAA; CAR; Football Bowl Subdivision; Big Ten; linebacker;
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Big Green
This investigation details a string of startling practices at The Nature Conservancy, the world's largest environmental group. The Conservancy's advisory board included senior officials from corporations that were heavy polluters and which had paid millions in environmental fines. Even worse, the Conservancy repeatedly bought scenic properties and resold them to its trustees at greatly reduced prices.
Tags: environment; nonprofits; corporate scandal
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MIA: Big Airport, Big Bucks Profiteering and politics at Miami International Airport
The Miami Herald reveals in this ongoing series how Miami International Airport serves "high-powered lobbyists and political insiders," not the traveling public. The series was built, in part, from "once secret documents obtained in a public record lawsuit."
Tags: Miami International Airport; politics; lobbyists; FOIA; public records; airport expansion; contracts; political pork; corruption
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Wing Commander: At Boeing, an Old Hand Provides New Tricks In Battle With Airbus
The Wall Street Journal looks at the battle between the two major rivals in the airplane business - Boeing and Airbus. The story focuses on a "critical sales pitch at prestigious Singapore airlines" in May 2000, which ended with Singapore selecting the planes of Boeing's main rival, Airbus. The article examines the role of Joe Sutter, "the living legend in the world of big jets," in today's management of Boeing Co, and finds that he has helped Boeing to beat back the challenge posed by the new Airbus A380.
Tags: Boeing; Airbus; Singapore Air; jets; engineering; aerodynamic design; carriers; airplanes; technology
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Arrested Development
Outside Magazine reports on the Molokai Ranch near Maui, "where rooms run $355 a night and guests spend their days mountain biking, kayaking, snorkeling, fishing . . . the resort is the centerpiece of the Ranch's 54,000 acres." The Ranch once "had been considered as fundamental to the island's way of life, and as inextricable from its future, as the sun. But that was before Big Pineapple pulled out and poverty settled in; before Big Money came ashore with bold plans for converting the Ranch into a resort and real estate empire." Now native Molokai's are upset that the Ranch is using their natural resources, decreasing their fresh water supply and threatening their simplistic ways of life. Reporter Joe Kane provides insight on the issues.
Tags: Molokai; islands; tourism; natural resources; fishing; water; islands; industry; development
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The Most Expensive Race
"Something crazy is happening in American politics. It is compounded of competitiveness, consultant specialization, a corrupted campaign-finance system, the maturation of polling and advertising technology and a surfeit of careless contributions in a booming economy." The most expensive congressional race of 2000 is between GOP incumbent James Rogan and Democratic State Senator Adam Stiff. The big story here may not be the contributions to the campaigns, but all the money spent on professional political fundraisers. L.A. politico Big Joe Cerrell calls this particular race "the consultant full employment act."
Tags: PAC; fundraising; U.S. House of Representatives; direct mail; issue advocacy; National Republican Congressional Committee; Armenians; campaign finance; political consultants
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Rabbi's Big Day Care Coup
The Daily News finds that the Giuliani administration gave day care vouchers primarily to families in a select few New York neighborhoods. Milton Balkany, a rabbi with political connections to the mayor helped many families get the vouchers.
Tags: school vouchers; Giuliani; Balkany
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Future Fallout?
A number of big nuclear power reactors have shut down in the past few years. What possible human health changes have been found in the affected areas? Infant mortality rates are considered a significant standard by which to measure the health of a society. Researcher Joe Mangano found that infant mortality rates had declined in areas around closed reactors.
Tags: TAPE
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Making crime pay
First, the big drug bust gets a baddie off the street. Then Joe Citizen can bid on his trove of gold and cars, tasteless though they may be. Inquirer Magazine looks at auctions of government-seized material.