Citizens Count on the Illinois Freedom of Information Act but Keep Getting...
by Mick Dumke When Larry Young started requesting records from police, he just wanted to find out what had happened to his daughter, Molly. More than six years after the 21-year-old was found shot to...
View Article“They’ve Got to Execute You”: St. Luke’s Doctor Faces Discipline After...
by Mike Hixenbaugh, Houston Chronicle, and Charles Ornstein, ProPublica Dr. Tomas Rios was upset. He believed that some of his patients at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center had received unnecessary...
View ArticleArrest Throws Texas Voter Registration Dispute Into Further Confusion
A campaign staffer for a Texas Democratic congressional candidate was briefly arrested at the Waller County Courthouse after delivering a letter demanding that the county address problems with the...
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by Louise Kiernan Get Email Updates from ProPublica Illinois Discover what makes Illinois tick from our team of investigative journalists covering the state. Delivered every Friday. This week,...
View ArticleChasing Leads and Herding Cats: Shaping a New Role in the Newsroom
by Rachel Glickhouse In this ever-changing industry, new roles are emerging that redefine how we do journalism: audience engagement director, social newsgathering reporter, Snapchat video producer. At...
View ArticleSloan Kettering Cancer Researchers Correct the Record by Revealing Company Ties
by Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, and Katie Thomas, The New York Times Top researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have filed at least seven corrections with medical journals recently,...
View ArticleProPublica Illinois Wins 3rd Place in 2018 Ruderman Foundation Awards for...
by ProPublica The National Center on Disability and Journalism announced that the ProPublica Illinois project “Stuck Kids” won third place in the 2018 Ruderman Foundation Awards for Excellence in...
View ArticleMore Than Me CEO Katie Meyler Temporarily Steps Down
by Finlay Young for ProPublica Katie Meyler, the founder of More Than Me, temporarily stepped down from her position as the American charity’s chief executive officer pending the results of a Liberian...
View ArticleNearly 1 in 10 Mail Ballots Thrown Out in Georgia County
Election officials in Gwinnett County, Georgia, have thrown out almost one in 10 of the vote-by-mail ballots cast. Officials cannot explain why, though they deny it was done out of malice. Citizens...
View ArticleCharlottesville’s Other Jim Crow Legacy: Separate and Unequal Education
by Annie Waldman, ProPublica, and Erica Green, The New York Times CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — High school seniors Zyahna Bryant and Trinity Hughes have been friends since they were 6 years old, raised by...
View ArticleVoter Purges: What Georgians Heading to the Polls Need to Know
by Blake Paterson Charges of voter suppression have been levied in the governor’s race in Georgia in recent weeks, pitting the secretary of state and GOP candidate Brian Kemp against critics,...
View ArticleVoter Registration Around Austin Smashed Records. That May Be a Problem.
by Jessica Huseman Travis County, Texas — the home of Austin — has experienced a massive spike in voter registrations this cycle, which officials there attribute to the heightened interest in the...
View ArticlePump and Trump
by Heather Vogell, ProPublica, with Andrea Bernstein and Meg Cramer, WNYC, and Peter Elkind, ProPublica Since Donald Trump’s fortunes came surging back with the success of “The Apprentice” 14 years...
View ArticleGOP Senator Pushed VA to Use Unproven “Brainwave Frequency” Treatment
by Isaac Arnsdorf Sen. Dean Heller, a Nevada Republican, pushed doctors at the Veterans Affairs medical center in Reno to adopt an experimental mental health treatment marketed by a company with ties...
View Article¿Has experimentado algún problema al votar? Queremos escuchar tu historia
par ProPublica Read in English. Las elecciones están a la vuelta de la esquina. Si estás planeando votar, ya sea el 6 de noviembre o durante el período de votación anticipada en tu estado, queremos...
View ArticleHere Are the Trump Projects Where Ivanka and Her Dad Misled Buyers
by Katherine Sullivan and Heather Vogell A pattern of deception ran through the Trumps’ real estate deals since the mid-2000s. Not only were the Trumps more than the mere licensors they claimed to be,...
View ArticleEven in Philadelphia, One of the Most Determined Sanctuary Cities, Refuge Is...
by David Gambacorta, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Kavitha Surana, ProPublica A small, impish grin spread across Jeff Sessions’ face. It was a sun-drenched June afternoon in Scranton, a northeastern...
View ArticleIn Illinois Governor’s Race, Rauner and Pritzker See a Clear Need to Promise...
by Mick Dumke Since he first entered politics as a candidate five years ago, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has pledged his commitment to open government. As he put it during a debate last week with...
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