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Omaha Mayoral Recall
Opponents of Omaha's mayor collected more than 37,000 signatures on their petitions to force a recall election. The World-Herald examined whether the signatures were valid.
Tags: recall; elections; signatures; petition
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Hope or Hype in Harlem?
This publication examines the Harlem Children's Zone, which is the "model for President Obama's signature anti-poverty program, Promise Neighborhoods." While there has been an abundance of press on the project, little has been done to examine if the HCZ is working, and what, if any, impact it has on the area. The City Limits team seeks to answer those questions.
Tags: Harlem; poverty; Obama; Harlem Children's Zone; low-income; Great Society; government programs
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"Brain Wars: How the Military Is Failing Its Wounded"
NPR and ProPublica teamed up to investigate the "medical system for America's troops and veterans." Brain damage caused by "shock waves" from roadside bombs have become the "signature wounds" of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The military promised to improve the health care for this type of injury, but reporters found a lack of diagnosis and treatment for the brain damage, as well as "bureaucratic indifference."
Tags: Iraq; Afghanistan; roadside bombs; military; Walter Reed Army Medical Center; TBI; brain injury; Fort Bliss; Pentagon; Building 805
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Deed scam targets inheritances
"A Florida business used forged signatures, some of people who had died decades ago, to collect more than $300,000 from Brevard County. The money was from an escrow fund of money left over from sales of land sold for back taxes."
Tags: General Development Corp; Palm Bay; heir; fraud;
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Silent Injustice
Through analyzing "thousands of pages of documents" and interviewing "dozens of people," 60 Minutes and the Washington Post found that "there were hundreds of defendants imprisoned, who were convicted with the help of now-discredited forensic tool... The FBI never notified them, their lawyers or the courts that their cases may have been affected by faulty testimony."
Tags: bullet lead analysis; forensic science; evidence; FBI; courts; chemical signatures; bullets; ammunition;
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Paper Pushers
During the 2003 election Mayor Richard M. Daley won by reaching out to all corners of Chicago: white to black, Latin to Asian citizens. Before the election took place, he had people mostly of white and Latin descent along with many city workers petition his signatures, which led to his victory.
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No Child Left Behind: A closer look
"'No Child Left Behind: A Closer Look' examines three little-known aspects of the No Child Left Behind Act, President Bush's signature education law." The three part series looks at race, failing schools, and the impact it has had on the "nation's best teachers."
Tags: No Child Left Behind Act; race; San Diego; teachers; schools; education; test scores; loopholes; school boards;
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Evidence of Injustice
Through analyzing "thousands of pages of documents" and interviewing "dozens of people," 60 Minutes and the Washington Post found that "there were hundreds of defendants imprisoned, who were convicted with the help of now-discredited forensic tool... The FBI never notified them, their lawyers or the courts that their cases may have been affected by faulty testimony."
Tags: bullet lead analysis; forensic science; evidence; FBI; courts; chemical signatures; bullets; ammunition; FOIA
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Takings Initiatives Accountability Project: The Center for Public Integrity investigates ballot initiatives that would radically change land-use and environmental regulation in five Western states
The [non-partisan]Center for Public Integrity investigated 2006 "ballot initiatives that were designed to radically change land-use and environmental regulation in five Western states. They discovered that a trio of "secret donors" accounted for 99% of the propostions' bankrolls, and some of the initiatives did not comply with campaign-finance and other regulations. Then the Center revealed that 85 percent of the funding was coming from a single wealthy real estate investor and Libertarian activist, Howard RIch All but the Arizona inititative failed at the ballot. The Center for Public Integrity set up a stand-alone website-- www.takings initiatives.org-- and filed more than 50 articles on it. "Our general practice-- and a novel one as far as we can tell-- was to mount verbatim transcripts of the interviews on our website, including audio recordings where available. We sought to allow proponents, opponents funders and experts to have a chance to present their side of the story in their own words." The Center also checked with state and federal regulators for compliance of relevant laws and regulations.
Tags: Takings Initiatives; takings clause; ballot initiatives; land-use regulation; environmental regulation; tax-exempt organizations; Howard Rich; Andrea Millen Rich; Council for Responsible Government; William A. Wilson; state campaign-finance filings; public records requests; state freedom of information requests; America At Its Best; Americans for Limited Government; John Tillman; Howard Ahmanson; Fieldstead & Company; property rights; prefessional signature-gatherers; Colorado At Its Best; term limits; nonprofit advocacy organizations; Sam Adams Alliance; Sam Adams Foundation; Legislative Education Action Drive; Parents in Charge Foundation; Social Security Choice.org; Illinois Charitable Trust Bureau; educational vouchers; tuition tax credits; National Taxpayers Union; First Class Education; Susquehanna International Group; Jeffrey YAss; Cato Institute; Alliance for School Choice; Decision Education Foundation; Eric Brooks; Susan Mitchell; Pete Sepp; Kern Family Foundation; Generac Power Systems, Inc.; Milton Friedman; Taxpayer Bill of Rights; TABOR; Laird Maxwell; This House is MY Home; John Whitehead; Lower Manhattan Development Corporation; Exoxemis, Inc.; Family Farm Preservation Pact; Citizens for Community Protection; Kelo v. City of New London; eminent domain; New York Millionaires Assistance Act; Wallace Global Fund; Nicholas C. Dranias; PRNewswire; Eric O'Keefe; getliberty.com; George Soros
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Criminal Lawyer
The Post Register investigates a tip that the city prosecutor "had improperly sold an inmate's gun." As a result, the newspaper found that the "prosecutor had falsified documents for years, stealing a car, dozens of guns and forging judges' signatures on filings of all kinds, including mental health commitment orders."
Tags: Theft; prosecutor; illegal documents; falsified documents