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Search results for "Watts" ...
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Water War! A Thirsty Metroplex eyes East Texas for new reservoirs, seeking to ensure Dallas-Fort Worth has enough water through 2060
This story was about the brewing conflict between North Texas and East Texas over water. The official water plan for North Texas specifically cites the taking of land in East Texas to build numerous new reservoirs, while at the same time keeping conservation efforts in North Texas minimal.
Tags: water; land; real estate; development; conservation; natural resources; environment
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The Troubles at King/ Drew
The reporters began with a basic analysis of all the hospitals in the Los Angeles County public hospital system. They found that the most severe problems and violations were happening at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, formed after the 1965 Watts riots to serve the poor of southern Los Angeles. The problems ranged from underfunding to staff misdiagnoses, accidental patient deaths, and racist politics on the hospital's Board of Supervisors. The reporters also interviewed healthcare experts and published six detailed possible solutions to the problems facing the hospital.
Tags: healthcare; doctors; pathologist; Medical Board of California; American Medical Association; medical malpractice; civil rights
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Know Justice, Know Peace
Crogan tells the ins and outs of the "... chilly reaction by officials to the announcement of a citywide gang truce in April 1992 by Bloods and Crips peacemakers. Since that time, local government has failed to provide either political of financial support to bolster the momentous agreement, perhaps squandering a rare window of opportunity to stop what amounts to urban street warfare among the city's minority youth....There was also the published Bloods-Crips proposal to the city which circulated in South-Central, including $2 billion for infrastructure, $700 million for educations, $6 million for Neighborhood Watch patrols $20 million for economic redevelopment, and $1 billion for social-service and recreation programs. In exchange, the so-called 'Bloods-Crips Organization' promised to 'ask drug lords to invest their monies in L.A. area businesses and properties and to stop their drug trade'".
Tags: gangs; Watts; youth violence; blacks; LAPD; Los Angeles Police Department; projects; hood war; grassroots; South-Central; crime; CYA; California Youth Authority
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Giving the West away
The Progressive looks at land exchange programs that the Clinton administration has administered in favor of private parties. The report reveals that "in the past five years, more than 1.5 million acres have been traded away in hundreds of swaps ... and some of the deals have been particularly lopsided." The investigation reports on a GAO investigation which has found that "the accounting system [of the Bureau of Land Management] didn't keep track of the value of the land exchanges, making it impossible to determine whether the deal were legal." The story exposes how several firms close to "one of the land exchange program's biggest boosters ... Clinton's Interior Secretary, Bruce Babbitt, ... have been on the receiving end of federal land swaps."
Tags: Forest Service; James Watt; environment; conflicts of interest; land; Interior Department
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The Real Threat to America's Power
A Fortune investigation reveals that not only is California suffering from a generator shortage, "but overloaded power lines pose a much greater risk of blowing the fuses of the national economy." The story reveals the results of a study finding that "since 1975, annual utility investments in the U.S. power transmission system have fallen by more than half, to about $2 billion, ... [and] meanwhile, sales of power loaded onto the lines have risen more than 100-fold since mid-decade." The report details how "operators of the grid are forced to run it ever closer to its limits" and points to a number of examples of "gridwide voltage drop" or mysterious slowing. The investigation explains how "peak-time line congestion pushes wholesale power prices sky-high." The author warns that this trend "is the main threat to the system nationwide."
Tags: utilities; electricity; power companies; watt vendors; dams; generators; dynamo; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Western Interconnection
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Working to Make the Grade
This four-part series examines North Carolina's three "low performing" schools. Using state records, Peterson found that these three schools lacked supplies, the buildings and ground were poorly maintained and high standards for students' learning and behavior were not set. Peterson examines each of these three schools' efforts to "make the grade."
Tags: schools; education; North Carolina; Eastway Elementary; W.G. Pearson Elementary; George Watts Elementary
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No title (id: 9822)
WMYU-FM (Knoxville, Tenn.) investigates the Watts Bar, the only nuclear power project currently under construction in the U.S.; finds shortcomings in construction, harrassment of employees and inadequate emergency planning, Dec. 13 - 17, 1993.
Tags: TN Hawkins 15 pages
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No title (id: 8849)
Dallas Morning News reports on the dramatic increase in the number of not-for-profit, tax-exempt groups in the United States, the fastest growing sector of the U.S. economy; the growth of the groups has spawned a potent network of lobbying organizations that protect the interests of non-profits and thwart congressional attempts at reform, March 29 - April 1, 1992.
Tags: TX Whittle Watts CAJ
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No title (id: 6974)
Washington Monthly finds that when the HUD inspector general speaks, nobody listens; thus the graft, corruption and politics in the agency went unreported even though information was available, January 1990.
Tags: Watt Schuger OMB
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No title (id: 5760)
San Jose Mercury News chronicles Reagan administration policies since the resignation of James Watt; finds the Reagan administration continued attempts to open up federal lands to commercial development while not setting aside land for new parks and wilderness areas, Sept. 18 - 20, 1988.
Tags: Zielenziger