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What's in your burger?
This story revealed how a number of restaurants aren’t following health code guidelines. These violations include not using gloves, not cooking at correct temperatures, no mouth guards at buffets, no sanitizer in rag buckets, dirty restrooms, no dates on food in the refrigerator, and storing food where it is subject to contamination.
Tags: health inspection; records; Cedar City; food; sickness; food protection code; Public Health Department; home-owned; chains; privately owned
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Corruption in Community College System
This story reveals “patronage, corruption and waste in Alabama's two-year college system. Major findings include: everyone in Chancellor Roy Johnson's immediate family was on the system payroll; campuses gave jobs to relatives of systems officials, often bypassing hiring practices; nearly a third of Alabama's legislators or their relatives received pay from the system; system contractors paid for or performed work on homes owned by Johnson and others; software company received millions of dollars in system officials and lobbying firms, despite a ban on such payments; state attorney general asked Johnson for favors while his prosecutors investigated the system.â€
Tags: nepotism; college; community college
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Home Is Where The Card Is
Pitch Weekly investigates HomeBuyers Assistance Foundation, a nonprofit organization that helps people with credit troubles find homes. Owned by David W. Zabawa, this company "provides customers individualized plans of 'attack' that are supposed to help them reach settlements with creditors and rectify disputed accounts on their credit reports. . . Zabawa buys the houses . . . he negotiates deals with homeowners who are eager to make a quick sale. Often, Zabawa pays anywhere from $2,000 to $10,000 less than the appraised value of the homes- and sells them to his clients at the appraised value. The difference keeps his organization afloat." The article profiles people who believe this company is 'amazing' and 'helped them out when no one else would'. While others say Zabawa, an ex-convict, robbed them of money and did not guarantee his results.
Tags: homeowners; bankruptcy; credit cards; renting; mortgage companies; Credit Repair Organizations Act
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LaCrosse (Wis.) Tribune reports on the struggle between that town's student renters and their home-owning neighbors, June 18 - 20, 1989.