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Fatal Care
“At least 22 children died from 2004 to 2008 despite clear warning signs from the Bureau of Child Welfare they were at risk”. A number of reasons were to blame for the deaths of these innocent children. The reasons include: workers making these “fatal mistakes” were reassigned instead of being fired, the parents mistreating their children were never punished, and secrecy in the Bureau persisted.
Tags: Milwaukee; county; kids; preventable; social service; social workers; turmoil; caseworkers; guardians
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The Sellout
This book shows that the financial turmoil is part of something larger. The financial institutions are selling out their responsibility to their shareholders, outside investors, and the American public. This is one of the main reasons for the financial and economic market the way it is today. Also, Wall Street's self-indulgence and the government's lack of management played a large role in this as well.
Tags: economy; markets; finances; Wall Street; stocks; national; recession
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The High Price of Home Ownership
"In 2007, the housing market was in turmoil. People were losing their homes. Many blamed the homeowners." The authors wanted to see "what role lenders played nto putting unsuspecting homeowners into precarious loans that they could not afford." They found that "not only were lender partially to blame, but there were wide disparities in the race" of who was most affected.
Tags: homeownership; lenders; corruption; racial gap; race; loans; foreclosure; home mortage
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Coverage of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
"The Center for Disease Control and Prevention-- the world's premier public health agency-- is in turmoil and foundering. It is at risk from many of the same ills that lead to FEMA's disastrous performance after Hurricane Katrina, according to Young's reporting on the Atlanta-based agency."
Tags: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; animal care; brain drain; Katrina
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Uncovering 'Coingate': From State of Turmoil to State of Change
In the second year of investigations into corruption in the State of Ohio, a Toledo Blade investigation into investment and corruption scandals takes down a former COP county chairman who channeled illegal contributions through more than 20 conduits into the 2004 Bush/Cheney campaign.
Tags: Ohio Bureau of Investigation; kickbacks; Ohio Republican Party; Ohio Bureau of Worker's Compensation; hedge funds; Coingate; GOP fundraiser Tom Noe; rare coin trading; pay-to-play; contribution laundering
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Turmoil at UMDNJ
This extensive nine-month investigation into the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey first began with a "mysterious check made out to a dead man." What resulted were more than 70 stories uncovering years of corruption, political patronage, conflicts of interest, millions of dollars in no-bid contracts and bonuses for administrators and more. At the end of the investigation into UMDNJ, the U.S. Attorney ordered a federal monitor to take over--the first time ever that a state university had to be taken over by the federal government.
Tags: fraud; Medicare; Medicaid; corruption; James McGreevey; contracts
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Med School Turmoil
Dr. Issam Awad, the chairman of the neurosurgery department at Colorado's only medical schools, was accused by his colleagues of hurting patients, which prompted an investigation by a five-doctor committee that concluded that he gave substandard care in seven of the 10 cases reviewed and committed egregious violations of ethics. A series of FOIA requests and the anonymous mailing of the peer review of Awad's work made this a story that took considerable time and effort.
Tags: Education; Medicine; doctors; neurosurgery; scandal; racism; race; prejudice
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Taxicab Turmoil: Over the years, cities have tried just about every possible strategy for regulating the taxi business. It's still a problem almost everywhere.
Governing magazine writes about the problems city governments have in regulating the taxi industry.
Tags: taxis; industry; city government; local government; Seattle; politics; policy
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Blue-Light Special
The Riverfront Times reports on the Overland Police department's firearm turmoil. Not only did the department spend many thousands of dollars on guns for its 50 officers, including heavy assault weapons that had no practical purpose according to department officials, guns that were recorded as destroyed or scrapped for parts showed up in police vehicles and hunter-education programs. "Overland was buying and selling guns... so they were in the gun business. That's the bottom line," a former officer said. Discounts given to the department for gun purchases were extended to the mayor several other prominent Overland citizens. Overland also had problems with guns disappearing out of the evidence locker.
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Death Trip
The Riverfront Times reports on Marine Villa- the mean streets of South St. Louis, where 19 year-old Jason Laboube was shot while chasing some area drug dealers to get back his drugs and $20. Friends and family of Laboube say he was on the wrong path, but was trying to straighten out his life. None the less, they say he didn't deserve to die. "Marine Villa is a neighborhood in turmoil. Although the incidence of murder and rape has been low since 1998, reports of robbery, assault, burglary, larceny and auto theft are rampant." Despite the crime, the city has been encouraging redevelopment in the neighborhood by demolishing homes and building new housing. But the deputy chief of the South Patrol division "acknowledges that the patrol officers may not be cruising the 'hoods as much, he says that's because they are slammed with calls.' The article details Laboube's death in addition to reporting on the Marine Villa neighborhood.
Tags: crime; drugs; neighborhoods; police; burglary; homicide; redevelopment; poverty; drug dealers