OPINION: The cost of care for Colorado's victims
One of the reasons Americans seem so willing to tolerate the fact that 50 million of us are uninsured and almost 30 million more of us are underinsured is that most of us who have coverage assume we...
View ArticleHow we crunched the numbers
The Center for Public Integrity used two datasets compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. The first was a database of all Federal Elections Commission records containing the campaign...
View ArticleDaily Disclosure: Jewish groups run anti-Obama ads as Romney visits Israel
With GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in Israel over the weekend, the “Emergency Committee for Israel,” a conservative political group with neoconservative ties, released a series of ads on...
View ArticleDonor profile: Fred Eychaner
Ranking: 7Total contributions to super PACs: $3.25 million*$1.5 million to Priorities USA Action (pro-Barack Obama)$800,000 to Majority PAC (pro-Democratic)$750,000 to House Majority PAC...
View ArticleDonor profile: William “Bill” Koch/Oxbow Carbon LLC
Ranking: 9Total contribution to super PACs: $3 million*$3 million to Restore Our Future (pro Romney)Notable federal hard and soft money and 527 contributions:$30,000 to the Democratic National...
View ArticleDonor profile: John Childs
Ranking: 10Total contributions to super PACs: $2.63 million*$1.1 million to Club for Growth Action (pro tea party)$1 million to Restore Our Future (pro Romney)$500,000 to American Crossroads (pro...
View ArticleDonor profile: Harlan Crow/Crow Holdings
Ranking: 8Total contributions to super PACs: $3.16 million*$1.5 million to American Crossroads (pro Republican) from Crow Holdings LLC$650,000 to Restore Our Future (pro Mitt Romney) from Crow...
View ArticleDonor profile: Service Employees International Union
Ranking: 6Total contributions to super PACs: $3.4 million*Florida Freedom PAC (pro-Obama) $1.4 millionPriorities USA Action (pro-Obama) $1 millionHouse Majority PAC (pro-Democrat) $311,000Rethink PAC...
View ArticlePublic radio talks to L.A. school police chief about court citations that...
In a report aired Monday, Southern California’s KPCC radio interviews the chief of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s police department — the nation’s largest school police force — and other...
View ArticleFormer Olympians praise Romney in ad — and pony up contributions
A smiling Kristi Yamaguchi gushes about Republican Mitt Romney in a new ad paid for by the conservative super PAC Restore Our Future. She admires the presidential candidate so much that she’s also...
View ArticleKey findings
An Army proposal to stop work on the M1 Abrams tank to save $3 billion, has been blocked by the members of four key congressional committees.Those lawmakers have received $5.3 million since 2001 from...
View ArticleFlorida reforms targeted by 'good government' group
Citing the Center for Public Integrity’s States of Disclosure project and State Integrity Investigation as a basis for reform, the nonpartisan research group Integrity Florida has issued a report...
View ArticleMillions of dollars in U.S. aid wasted in Afghanistan
In the Nangarhar province near Afghanistan’s eastern border sits an abandoned police base, built with $4.5 million of U.S. taxpayer dollars and completed just 13 months ago. The base, known as Lal Por...
View ArticleDaily Disclosure: Sierra Club pushes wind industry tax credit
The Sierra Club’s nonprofit has released three new ads yesterday targeting Republican congressmen who have opposed renewing a tax credit for the wind energy industry.The Sierra Club so far has taken...
View ArticleSuper PACs help tea party candidate win Senate runoff in Texas
In a Texas-sized spending battle that attracted more than $14 million in outside money, Ted Cruz upset the party establishment favorite Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in the in the state’s contentious...
View ArticleState settlement boosts monitoring at massive coal ash dump bordering two states
Owners of one of the nation’s largest impoundments of the often-toxic byproducts of burning coal must do more to protect residents from groundwater contamination and stop accepting waste by 2016,...
View ArticleTransparency missing in Arizona's legislature
Arizona’s legislative session this year was as hard to track as a Stealth bomber, even for many Capitol regulars.A bill focused on attorney’s fees turned into a controversial measure about abortion....
View ArticleDaily Disclosure: Misleading ad seeks to scare voters away from Obama
“You know,” she says, closing her laptop and shaking her head, “It seems these days, not a single one of us steps on a train, boards an airplane, attends a concert or a sporting event that doesn’t have...
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