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Jobopoly
Despite investments of $1.2 billion over five years, corresponding to 55 percent of the total Tax Increment Funding program in Chicago, the downtown area has lost over 12,000 jobs during the past five years, predominantly hitting African-American communitites.
Tags: chicago; public spending; the loop; tax dollars;
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Protecting the Doctors
KMGH-TV found that when Colorado doctors are accused of sexual assault and/or improper conduct investigations are handled by the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies. The administrative investigation reports all criminal acts and findings to the state's attorney general who represents the agency. Because the A.G. represents the agency, it has no obligation under the law to notify or counsel the victim. The result is many doctors simply surrender their license and then are free because no charges are pressed before statute of limitations runs out. Doctors are then able to file for a reinstatement of medical license anywhere, because files are sealed. After this report legislation was passed to close this loop hole.
Tags: medicine; doctors; sexual assault; investigation; medical license; Colorado; victim rights; statute of limitation; Kim Nagel; Attorney General
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Marching On; Carbon Copies; Resisting the Dream; Block Buster; Passing the Torch; Tracing History
Since Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and others of the Chicago Freedom Movement tried to help segregate th city back in 1966, little has changed since. The whites of Chicago are primarily living on the Northwest Side and African Americans are living on the city's South and West Sides.
Tags: segregation; Martin Luther King; Loop neighborhood; Harold Washington; civil rights
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Misuse of Tax Caps
The reporters' investigation focused on the community approval of local tax-rates without realizing that under a loop-hole in a tax cap law passed previously by the Illinois State legislature, public departments who knew about the loop-hole were able to collect a much higher sum of taxes than the constituents thought they were approving.
Tags: tax rates; loop-hole; tax law; financial consultants; school districts; property tax; district budgets; FOIA
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Tarnished Badges
A loop hole in South Carolina law allows for law enforcement officers to continue working in the police force despite having a history of misconduct and criminal behaviors. Also the agency in charge of monitoring and disciplining the officers was discovered to be understaffed and underfunded.
Tags: police officers; law; law enforcement; discipline
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The Shame Of Boxing
The Nation details corruption in the boxing industry that leads to bribery, rigged fights, empty commissions, meaningless rankings and physical danger for the boxers. Boxing is the only sport where the same interest can promote both sides, creating an upper echelon of power and money, television and casino interests, while the boxers themselves are left out of the loop. Newfield suggests a Boxer's Bill of Rights that would protect boxers and redeem this corrupt sport.
Tags: boxing; corruption; bribery
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City Hired Lobbyist Despite Fraud Probe, Extent of Lobbying Work for LA Questioned, Former Clinton Appointee Helped Hubbell Get LA Contract, String of Deals Enriched Hubbell Amid Fraud Probe, Two Top Clinton Aides Tried to Get Hubbell Jobs, Efforts on Hubbell's Behalf May be a Key to Whitewater, Hubbell Cheated LA, a City Audit Claims, Investigators Shift Focus on Efforts to Aid Hubbell, Kantor Admits Helping Hubbell Gain LA Fee, Though in Jail, Hubbell Never Out of the Loop,
In these related stories, The Los Angeles Times investigates former Associate Atty. Gen. Webster Hubbell's hiring as a Los Angeles lobbyist and his involvement with Clinton Administration scandals.
Tags: Webster Hubbell; Clinton Administration; lobbying; Whitewater; Los Angeles
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Down and Dirty
WSMV-TV (Nashville) "found children wading through sewage-filled creeks and a river bank covered with sewage sludge. The people who ran Nashville's sewer department ignored the problem because they were able to avoid environmental fines and penalties by using a special loop-hole." The investigation discovers "billions of gallons of Nashville's sewage was being bypassed into creeks and ditches and rivers in the city. Sewer operators were kicking out sewage anywhere, to keep incoming sewage away from the overloaded and outmoded treatment plant."
Tags: VIDEOCLIP TAPE TRANSCRIPT Environment Protection Agency EPA Department of Health
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Houston Post discloses that a highway loop around the outskirts of Houston is being planned by a group of public officials and private citizens whose financial interests are deeply entwined in the project, Feb. 26 - April 2, 1986.
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