The Utah Investigative Journalism Project took a deep dive into prosecutions against demonstrators originating from the summer of protests in 2020. First, they explored allegations of double standards. They found the Salt Lake District Attorney had dropped charges against a militia member who pepper-sprayed a Black Lives Matter protester in the face. After they asked to see the investigative file and why ...
At least 384 workers have died from environmental heat exposure in the U.S. in the last decade, according to an investigation by journalists at NPR and Columbia Journalism Investigations. Among the findings from their analysis of hundreds of pages of documents is that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), whose primary responsibility is to protect workers from hazards, has ...
Shortly after taking command of the Chicago Police Department in April 2020, Superintendent David Brown moved to curtail overtime spending by issuing an order requiring supervisors who are ranked deputy chief or higher to approve all overtime requests. More than a year later, as grantees at South Side Weekly uncovered, it’s unclear whether that order had any effect.Records obtained by the Weekly appear to ...
Amid the worst pandemic in a century, Mississippi is leading the nation in increased diabetes deaths per capita, according to a just-released study, putting massive strain on the state’s frontline workers and hospitals. Jerry Mitchell’s report for the Mississippi Center for Investigative Journalism, also published in the Jackson Clarion Ledger, describes how the state’s largest hospital has been forced to ...
There are 1,300 areas of land across the country that are hazardous because they’ve been contaminated with toxins and other waste, and they are designated as high-priority cleanup sites by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. One of these so-called Superfund sites is 30 acres of desolate land in the heart of Uniontown, Ohio, that no one can use because a ...
As police shootings have become a flashpoint in U.S. cities, grantees at The Marshall Project and the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting spent a year examining those urban killings’ little-publicized counterparts in rural America.Their investigation and analysis of shooting data found that, although the rate of rural police shootings was about 30% lower than the urban rate when adjusted for ...
St. Dominic is a nonprofit hospital in Jackson, Mississippi, where more than 25% of residents live in poverty. Nonprofit hospitals like St. Dominic pay almost no taxes and in return, they’re supposed to provide a charity care policy for poor patients. But, as Giacomo Bologna uncovered in his new report for The Mississippi Center For Investigative Reporting, tax filings reveal ...
It started with a call on social media to “back the blue” in the summer of 2020, urging Utahns to stand together in support of police to intimidate potentially violent protesters and deter them from looting and pillaging. Soon, as Eric S. Peterson reports, 20,000 members online were cheering on Utah Citizens Alarm, a group referred to as a militia ...
Can slicing a 100-mile-long trench into the bed of the Columbia River — the iconic giant whose flow binds British Columbia, Washington and Oregon — be good for the environment? The answer is a big yes, says a team of energy developers that proposes submerging power cables in the riverbed.According to Peter Fairley’s report, the developers say the submerged cables ...
As sea levels rise, landfills along U.S. coasts have become a ticking environmental time bomb. In Massachusetts, an ever-growing pile of ash created by the Wheelabrator landfill’s incinerator threatens habitat for migratory and breeding birds and other terrestrial wildlife. And, according to studies, there are thousands more just like it along the U.S. coastline, threatening not only wildlife, but the ...