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Secret Files Expose Offshore’s Global Impact by Gerard Ryle, Marina Walker Guevara, Michael Hudson, Nicky Hager, Duncan Campbell and Stefan Candea for ICIJ A cache of 2.5 million files has cracked open the secrets of more than 120,000 offshore companies and trusts, exposing hidden dealings of [...]
Texas firm targets Calif. homeowners with foreclosed 2nd mortgages by Rick Jurgens for California Watch Adding new uncertainty in the state’s ongoing mortgage crisis, a Texas company is aggressively pursuing hundreds of Californians to collect second-mortgage debt – on homes [...]
After a Tower Climber Falls, Stand Down Called for on AT&T Projects by Ryan Knutson, PBS Frontline, and Liz Day for ProPublica & Frontline This story was co-published with PBS Frontline. Following a worker’s non-fatal 100-foot fall from a Texas cell tower [...]
Criminal Probe Spotlights Tree Poisoning to Make Way for Billboards by Myron Levin, Lilly Fowler and Stuart Silverstein for FairWarning Robert J. Barnhart was a crew chief for a billboard company, and a soldier in a war on trees. Trees were the enemy [...]
Banks Colluding with Insurers to Rip Off Homeowners, Lawsuit Alleges by Cora Currier for ProPublica A class-action lawsuit in Florida that moved forward this week highlights a little-appreciated aspect of the housing market — the cozy relationship between banks and [...]
Michigan’s budget crisis puts democracy on the chopping block Michigan’s emergency manager law grants sweeping powers to unelected officials. by Paul Abowd for iWatch News When the city of Pontiac, Mich., ordered the closing of its fire department [...]
By the Numbers: Life and Death at Foxconn by Lois Beckett for ProPublica An investigative series by the New York Times and a performance piece by Mike Daisey featured on This American Life have put the spotlight on Foxconn, the Taiwanese company whose massive Chinese factories manufacture [...]
The units work by sounding an in-car alert if the scanner comes across a license plate of interest to police, whereas before, patrol officers generally needed some reason to take an interest in the vehicle, like a traffic [...]
Judge in Citigroup case has bucked trend of rubber stamping SEC settlements Jurist has history of slamming Wall Street’s top regulator by Ben Hallman for iWatch News There are 41 federal judges in the Southern District of New [...]
America’s Growing Income Gap, by the Numbers by Braden Goyette The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office recently released a much-discussed study showing that over the past three decades the income of the highest-paid Americans has soared while the income of others has [...]