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View ArticlePedestrian Tickets Lead to Hundreds of Suspended Driver’s Licenses
by Topher Sanders, ProPublica, and Benjamin Conarck, Florida Times-Union More than half the 2,000 people who received pedestrian tickets in Duval County, Florida, from 2012 to 2016 saw their driver’s...
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by Cynthia Gordy Why does the U.S. have the highest maternal death rate in the affluent world? This year, ProPublica and NPR have been investigating this question through our Lost Mothers series....
View ArticleThe Taking
by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Kiah Collier and Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune
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by Jodi S. Cohen and David Eads, ProPublica, and Jennifer Smith Richards, Chicago Tribune
View ArticleChicago Police Win Big When Appealing Discipline
by Jennifer Smith Richards, Chicago Tribune, and Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica A secretive appeals system has been knocking down the punishments of Chicago police officers no matter how serious their...
View ArticleLawsuit Targets Berrios Over Unfair, Error-Riddled Assessments
by Jason Grotto, ProPublica, and Hal Dardick, Chicago Tribune A group of public-interest lawyers filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that embattled Cook County Assessor Joseph Berrios violated state and...
View ArticleA Border Wall’s Uncompensated Victims
by T. Christian Miller, ProPublica, and Kiah Collier and Julián Aguilar, The Texas Tribune
View ArticleMolly Parker on Growing Up in Southern Illinois
by Logan Jaffe Molly Parker is a reporter at The Southern Illinoisan who’s been covering the housing and economic crisis in Cairo, in southern Illinois, for the past two-and-a-half years. She is one...
View ArticleLobbying Registration Database Reporting Recipe
by Jeremy B. Merrill It can seem like lobbyists run Washington from behind the scenes. But their work isn’t completely opaque: They’re required to register with the House and the Senate when they...
View ArticleNew York City Moves to Create Accountability for Algorithms
by Lauren Kirchner The algorithms that play increasingly central roles in our lives often emanate from Silicon Valley, but the effort to hold them accountable may have another epicenter: New York...
View ArticleWhat It’s Like Inside the Trump Administration’s Regulatory Rollback at the EPA
by Talia Buford Betsy Southerland knew something was wrong the moment she walked into her office at the Environmental Protection Agency. It was 8 a.m. on a Thursday in April and already, her team was...
View ArticleWatchdog Group Calls for Reform to Cook County Assessor’s Office
by Jason Grotto, ProPublica, and Ray Long, Chicago Tribune A nonpartisan government watchdog group Monday announced it will push for reforms to the Cook County assessor’s office, citing Chicago...
View ArticleProPublica Illinois Q&A: Meet Reporting Fellow Jerrel Floyd
by Andrea Salcedo Jerrel Floyd, ProPublica Illinois’ first reporting fellow, arrived after completing a fellowship at the Investigative Reporting Workshop, a nonprofit investigative newsroom based at...
View ArticleTrump’s Dark Deregulation
by Ian MacDougall At an event last Thursday to tout his administration’s efforts to rid the federal government of what he contends is burdensome red tape, President Donald Trump used oversized gold...
View ArticleThe Billion-Dollar Loophole
by Peter Elkind The idea seems like the perfect marriage of environmentalism and capitalism: Landowners give up their right to develop a piece of property, and in exchange they receive a special tax...
View ArticleFlorida Police Issue Hundreds of Bad Pedestrian Tickets Every Year Because...
by Topher Sanders, ProPublica, and Benjamin Conarck, Florida Times-Union On its face, Florida’s pedestrian statute 316.130(11) seems straightforward enough: fail to cross a street in a crosswalk where...
View ArticleProPublica Illinois Is Hiring a Public Relations Manager
by ProPublica ProPublica Illinois is the first regional operation of ProPublica, the New York-based investigative nonprofit newsroom that has, as it nears its 10th anniversary, achieved far-reaching...
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