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December 2009

Colorado Towns Take Extra Measures to Protect Their Water From Gas Drilling

In Wis., Drug Dealers Use Taxpayer-Funded Day Care as Cover

NOLA Case Four

How a New Orleans Police Detective Missed a Key Clue in a Controversial Killing

NOLA Case Three

Philly Fugitives Walk Free as Courts Watch

In Colorado, the Haves Get a Little Bit More

Underused Drilling Practices Could Avoid Pollution

New Orleans Police Shot Man, Told Family Otherwise

NOLA Case Two

Shot or Not, Dead or Alive? Two Men’s Fate Lost in Chaos

In New Orleans, Chaos in the Streets, and in Police Ranks Too

Video: It Started With a Photograph

Not Everybody Loses on Bank Failure Friday

Bailout Breakdown: Losses Likely to Be Larger Than Treasury Estimates

NOLA Case One

The Rise and Fall of ‘Notorious’ San Francisco Landlords

Interactive Chart Shows Breakdown of Slow-Moving Loan Mod Program

Gitmo Detainee, Abused in U.S. Custody, Is Returned to Kuwait

Gov’t Agency Helps Risky Lenders Keep Lending

Thanks for the Tax Credit, But Where Are the Customers?

Search Stimulus Spending In Your County (With the Latest Data!)

FDA Advised to Tighten Restrictions on GE and Covidien MRI Drugs

How We Compiled and Analyzed Stimulus Spending

Homeowners Getting Blame for Lack of Loan Mods, but Evidence Points to Banks and Servicers, Too

School Kids - And the Rest of Us - Fed Meat That Fast-Food Joints Wouldn’t Touch

Gloves Up! It’s Stimulus, Round 2

Share Your Experiences as a Student at For-Profit Colleges

Thousands of Stimulus Reports Missing, Resulting in Potential Undercount of Jobs Created

White House Gives Agencies Transparency To-Do List

Pa. Fines Chesapeake, Schlumberger for Gas Drilling Spill

Money Left Over, but the U.S. Debt May Swallow It

Hearing on Pa. Judges Who Took Kickbacks From Private Prison

Stimulus Spending Hits 30 Percent

After Donor’s Letter, Sen. Feinstein Supports Study That Could Delay Fish-Protection Plan

Workshop on Government Openness Is Closed to Public

More Picking at Those Stimulus Job Numbers

What Health Care Reform Means for: Medicaid Recipients

A 'Crazy' Way for an Industry to Operate

Temp Firms a Magnet for Unfit Nurses

Bank Failure Friday Roars Back: Six Banks Fail, Costing FDIC $2.4 Billion

Environmentalists: Revise Gas Drilling Review? Nope – Repeal It!

Jobless Rate Edges Down; White House Credits Stimulus

U.S. Turns a Blind Eye to Agent Orange

Prominent Political Fundraiser Pleads Guilty in N.Y. Pension Scandal

Familiarity Breeds Content

ProPublica.org, the Mobile Version

Criticism of the Jobs Summit, Even Before It Starts

Justice Often Elusive for Student Rape Victims

Bailout Balance Sheet (December 2009): Taxpayers' Revenues Grow, but So Do Losses

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