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Commonwealth Games Medical Scam
The story examines the massive overshoots in the budget for the Commonwealth games. The investigation focused on the purchase of highly inflated medical equipment made by the state government for players and spectators of the games.
Tags: Commonwealth Games; Delhi; sports; Commonwealth
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PRP Football Player Dies
A 15-year-old football player collapsed at practice and died three days later. Jefferson County Public Schools found nothing wrong, but reporters found witnesses of the practice while watching a soccer game next to the football field. Coaches were overheard denying the players' requests for water during practice.
Tags: heat stroke; Max Gilpin; dehydration; head coach; spectator; exhaustion;
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Political Donations
The Hamilton Spectator in this series of stories investigates how political parties received donations more than what is legally accepted. As the investigations reveal the parties used various loopholes to maximize the funds from generous supporters. The reporters found that political parties were accepting funds from commonly-owned companies, which went over the maximum - legal gifts that could be given to political parties.
Tags: Political parties; campaign finance; New Democratic Party; left front in Canada; Ontario political parties; Canadian constituencies; Tories; elections in Ontario
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"Reservations"
In an extensive investigative project, Fred Vallance-Jones discovered that the system that was meant to protect the public's heath through food inspection and restaurant safety had failed in Hamilton, Ontario. After analyzing the restaurant inspection database, reporters from the Spectator found that several restaurants had been violating health conditions for years without punishment from the environmental health department, while city inspectors repeatedly failed to inspect certain restaurants. Because of the series that ran in the Spectator the city of Hamilton hired two full-time premise inspectors, ordered a full report on city inspections, and formation of a system to make food handler training mandatory.
Tags: Health; restaurants; food; inspections
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Death at the track: Racing's Human Toll
An Observer investigation found that at least 260 people (including children and spectators) across the United States died in auto racing since 1990. The study scrutinized the main reasons: fences and barriers fail regularly, potentially dangerous drivers are allowed to race, head and neck injuries killed at least half the drivers, and inadequate rescue measures. After conducting more than 400 interviews plus newspaper and Internet searches, the Observer documented 260 deaths in all levels of U.S auto racing - from premier Winston cup and Indy car events to dirt-track races. Most deaths occurred at the small tracks. An Observer survey of track officials showed that few speedways inspect more than basic safety items of the racing cars. The fragmentation of the racing world and its players' fears of lawsuits have hindered collaboration and unity that could raise the level of safety.
Tags: death; sports; drivers; spectators; road accidents; survivors; safety standards; NASCAR; CART (Championship Auto Racing team); IRL (Indy Racing League); ARCA (Automobile Racing Club of America); life insurance; Lowe's motor speedway; CAR
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Gambling and Its Discontents
The American Spectator reports that the costs of gambling can be high, such as lost jobs, busted bank accounts - even public urination. And what's the upright Republican Party doing about it? Cozying up to Gambling Inc., that's what. Just as the milk of human kindness is withheld from gamblers, so too is any reasonable hope that politicians will ride to the rescue. Gambling's enormous successes throughout the nation, and especially in the deeply religious South, are a withering rebuke to those who make their living pandering to the fear of religious conservatives. And while the vast majority of Americans support gambling, at least as a public choice, it's a fairly good bet that most are unaware just how powerful a political force Gambling Inc., has become, and that once established, it is all but impossible to dislodge.
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What me guilty?
Labor Secretary Alexis Herman is the latest Clintonite to have an independent counsel of her very own. The White House claims she's a victim of a bad law. But American Spectator reports that the Herman investigation involves serious charges of personal corruption -- and strong links to the Clinton fundraising scandal.
Tags: Janet Reno Attorney general Justice Department Campaign finance
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Good enough for government work?
The American Spectator finds that public employees' unions look out for their members at taxpayer expense -- helping government do less at higher cost and lowering the accountability of officials who infringe on citizens' rights.
Tags: AFSCME Labor
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The American Spectator investigates drug abuse among staffers in the Clinton White House. While the White House attempts to explain the drug histories as the result of "youthful experimentation", much of the drug abuse appears to be getting in the way of White House security clearances and threatening more bad press for Clinton's administration. (Nov. 1996)
Tags: York Fast Times at White House High FBI Substance abuse Secret Service 8 pgs.
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No title (id: 13497)
The American Spectator looks at Bill Clinton's promises to give out Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) money and its effect on taxes. Clinton has given out more FEMA money than his predecessors despite reports from the inspector general that there is little incentive for local governments to pay back FEMA loans. The agency routinely lets local beneficiaries keep unspent funds. (Sept. 1996)
Tags: Bovard FEMA money come & get it Federal agencies Unpaid loans 6 pgs.