Samuel Zell, chairman of the Tribune Company, handed $200,000 to conservative super PACs in 2011. His media group owns 11 daily newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, 23 television stations, and the Chicago Cubs baseball team.
Media execs, companies gave more than $350,000 to conservative super PACs
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Costa Rica to study kidney disease afflicting sugarcane workers
Children gather to watch as Javier Pulido Zapata, a sugarcane worker who died of chronic kidney disease at age 35, is lowered into his grave at the cemetery in Chichigalpa, Nicaragua.
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Landmark diesel exhaust study stalled amid industry and congressional objections
Diesel exhaust, which some studies suggest causes lung cancer, spews from a crane loading a ship in Newark, N.J.
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ANALYSIS: The battle for Vermont's health
Gov. Peter Shumlin holds a license plate during his State of the State address.
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Another green energy company stumbles: Fisker announces layoffs
Vice President Joe Biden announces that Fisker Automotive will build electric cars at a shuttered GM plant in Delaware.
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Susan Ferriss discusses youth in prison with KQED
Susan is interviewed for California Report story on youth inmates.
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Another Bain exec revealed as man behind corporate donor to pro-Romney super PAC
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and adviser Eric Fehrnstrom, left, as they stepped off his campaign charter plane in South Carolina.
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Weekly Watchdog 2/2/12
Super PACs file expenditure reportsJanuary 31st was the deadline for super PACs to file their latest expenditure reports. The Center dug into the numbers quickly to identify the major donors – and their special interests. These are the people who, in many respects, are attempting to buy the 2012 election.
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Bain execs spent nearly $5 million on Romney’s White House runs, records show
Republican presidential candidate former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney
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FACT CHECK: Donald Trump weighs in on Santorum's Senate loss
Donald Trump talks to reporters prior to a news conference in Las Vegas.
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Fishing nations fail to stop plunder in the South Pacific
Jack mackerel, fresh off the boat, is prepared for markets in Peru.
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California budget crunchers hear youth-prison closure debate
Players in the fight to shut down – or keep open – the last of California’s state-run youth prisons are meeting this week where the action is: Gov. Jerry Brown’s Department of Finance, where the nitty-gritty of state budgeting gets done.
Struggling with the costs of incarceration generally, California could become the first state to wipe out is state juvenile jail division and the last of three prisons in a highly discredited system.
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FACT CHECK: Gingrich's predictions of rising gas prices not necessarily true
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Weekly Watchdog 2/9/12
Winning workThe ultimate goal of investigative journalism is impact. We want our reports to change laws, effect policy – and even alter the way people understand issues. At the Center for Public Integrity, we dig deep and swing for the fences.Our Looting the Seas series on global overfishing has helped lower quotas for Atlantic blue fin tuna, started government investigations in Europe, and called attention to rampant over fishing of the lowly jack mackerel in the Southern Pacific.
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Inspector general to examine ‘model workplaces’ program
The Department of Labor building in Washington, D.C., which is home to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration
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'Chemicals of concern' list stuck at OMB
Cass Sunstein, director of the White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. Some have criticized the office for its lengthy reviews of agency rules.
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Democratic operatives seeking million-dollar checks for super PACs
Five Democratic super PACs are reaching out to party mega-donors, in a fledgling effort seeking $1 million to $10 million contributions, now that President Barack Obama has blessed the outside spending group working to get him re-elected.Discussions among the five super PACs are under way about setting up a joint fundraising committee, said Bill Burton, a former deputy White House press secretary and co-founder of Priorities USA Action, which was launched last spring to help
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Los Angeles moves haltingly toward ending fines for truancy
A student from San Pedro High School in the Los Angeles area is detained for truancy in 2010 by Los Angeles city officers.
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CPAC panel: ‘Celebrate’ Citizens United ruling
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington.
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Update: Calif. budget crunchers hear youth-prison closure debate
Players in the fight to shut down — or keep open — the last of California’s state-run youth prisons are meeting this week where the action is: Gov. Jerry Brown’s Department of Finance, where the nitty-gritty of state budgeting gets done.
Struggling with the costs of incarceration generally, California could become the first state to wipe out is state juvenile jail division and the last of three prisons in a highly discredited system.
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