Kern expulsions figure into California debate on proposed legislation
A California attorney featured in a Center for Public Integrity investigation into school discipline will testify at a hearing at the Golden State’s Capitol in Sacramento on April 11. California’s...
View ArticleSupport our new investigation into a deadly disease killing agricultural workers
A deadly disease is killing thousands of the world's poorest laborers — and no one knows what is causing it. Last December, reporter Sasha Chavkin and the Center for Public Integrity published an...
View ArticleNo claims of ignorance please
In 1995, U.S. spy satellites photographed telling moments in the massacre over four days of an estimated 7,800 Bosnians by Bosnian Serb forces near the town of Srebrenica. But these photographs were...
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Weekly Watchdog 3/22/12
State transparency and accountabilityIn just four days our State Integrity Investigation — a corruption-risk grade card for every state — has been quoted, praised, assailed or otherwise cited by more...
View ArticleThe black hole of improper payments
Going strictly by the numbers, the DOD appears to be a model agency when it comes to avoiding what the government calls “improper payments” — those that should never have been made, or amount to more...
View ArticleU.S. deal with europeans limits risk of illicit nuclear bombs
In Seoul last week President Obama announced a major new deal with Belgium, France and the Netherlands to reduce the amount of highly-enriched uranium used to create medical isotopes. Under the new...
View ArticleJohn McCain predicts 'huge scandals' in super PAC-tainted election
Sen. John McCain slammed the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision as “incredibly naïve” on Tuesday, and predicted there would be “huge scandals” in its wake.The Arizona Republican was...
View ArticleChildren's Defense Fund report on kids' gun deaths, new gun laws
In a report released this month, the Children’s Defense Fund has analyzed recent national data on gunfire deaths and produced some alarming figures on child casualties. The report also criticizes a...
View ArticleDelaware lawmakers move to address low grade from State Integrity Investigation
Delaware lawmakers have launched a new legislative effort designed in part to improve the C- grade the state received on lobbying disclosure from the State Integrity Investigation. The First State’s...
View ArticleANALYSIS: Slogans versus substance in the battle over ObamaCare's future
Hands off my health care!Remember those words from the health care reform debate of two years ago? I’m confident we’ll be seeing them on protest signs in Washington again this week as the Supreme Court...
View ArticleBurning irony: Flame retardants might create deadlier fires
In one of the deadliest nightclub fires in American history, 100 people died at a rock concert in Rhode Island nearly a decade ago. But the biggest killer wasn't the flames; it was lethal gases...
View ArticleLethal injection drug access could put executions on hold
A federal judge’s decision to block imports of a drug used in executions will leave states to rely more on a substitute drug that could itself be getting scarce — developments that raise questions...
View ArticleNuclear testers can run but not hide
Beneath the oceans, on distant islands, in barren deserts, on icy hillsides, and at hundreds of other spots around the globe, special sensors are sniffing the air, measuring ground motion, watching...
View ArticleNRA pushed 'stand your ground' laws across the nation
In 2004, the National Rifle Association honored Republican Florida state legislator Dennis Baxley with a plum endorsement: Its Defender of Freedom award.The following year, Baxley, a state...
View ArticleTreasury Department review of Solyndra loan was rushed, report says
The Energy Department kept Treasury Department officials in the dark until late in the government's review of the $535 million loan to now-bankrupt solar panel maker Solyndra, triggering a rushed...
View ArticleHurt twice: once in war and once in treatment
Terrible medical care, long delays in service, and soldiers who felt like they were in a “petting zoo”: Those are just some of the issues identified in a Department of Defense Inspector General report...
View ArticleANALYSIS: Jokes from Justice Scalia mask grim reality of American health care
Since Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia clearly isn’t going to take the time to actually read the health care reform law before he decides whether or not it’s constitutional, maybe he and a couple...
View ArticleCasino billionaire expected to move millions to GOP groups
Multibillionaire Sheldon Adelson and his family, who have kept the flagging presidential candidacy of Newt Gingrich alive, seem poised to send millions to Republican-allied groups and possibly a super...
View ArticleOhio Democrats demand transparency task force in response to D grade
Citing the Buckeye State’s D grade from the State Integrity Investigation, Democratic legislators in Ohio have called for a bipartisan task force to review current ethics laws and consider new...
View ArticleSuspect in fatal DUI case found in South Korea
U.S. authorities have located international fugitive Kyung Ho Song in his native South Korea, more than a decade after he fled Illinois to avoid being tried for drunken driving and reckless homicide...
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