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Chemical Safety Board investigations languish

The Center for Public Integrity reports that the U.S. Chemical Safety Board operates with a sluggish investigative pace and short attention span. A former board member told CPI that the […]
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Extra Extra Monday: OSHA ignores slow and silent killers, corporate influence reaches court, back-door school handouts

As OSHA Emphasizes Safety, Long-Term Health Risks Fester  | The New York TimesThe Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the agency that many Americans love to hate and industry calls overzealous, […]
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Four of five drug busts by Border Patrol involve U.S. citizens

There’s no argument that Mexico-based crime organizations dominate drug smuggling into the United States. But the public message that the Border Patrol has trumpeted for much of the last decade, […]
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Dozens of internet sweepstakes cafes operated by those unfit for casinos

Dozens of Internet sweepstakes cafes are owned and operated by people who are in so much financial hot water that they couldn’t land a job at an Ohio casino. The […]
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Thousands of California teachers missing needed credentials

According to an analysis from California Watch, nearly 1 in 10 teachers lack the necessary credentials for their positions. Using data from the state Commission on Teacher Credentialing, California Watch […]
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Extra Extra Monday: Public schools lose millions to crooks, radon hotbeds, campaign-finance funded luxury

Center for Investigative Reporting/EsquireThe Shooter"The man who shot and killed Osama bin Laden sat in a wicker chair in my backyard, wondering how he was going to feed his wife and […]
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Extra Extra Monday: Crime inside NFL stadiums, Boeing supply chain outsourced, NRA freebies

The Sacramento BeeGuns rule street in west Lemon Hill neighborhood“Between January 2007 and November 2012, no other similarly sized area in Sacramento County had more reports of two categories of […]
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Iowa hospital sends $180,000 in food waste to landfill

University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics threw away 355,000 servings of food worth $181,600 last year, according to The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The hospital prepared roughly 3 million total […]
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New measure drops Pennsylvania charter school ratings

Analyzing state education data, The Morning Call found that only 28 percent of Pennsylvania charter schools met an adequate yearly progress rating, compared to 49 percent using a more lenient calculation […]
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Gun laws, state by state

"President Obama has indicated a move towards strengthening federal gun control measures, but the reality is that the majority of gun legislation in the US is enacted at the state […]
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