by Brandon Quester | Jan 6, 2014 | Blog, Monday Muckreads
In Arizona: ABC15.com, 1/2/14, “Sheriff Joe Arpaio racial profiling costs taxpayers $21M” Phoenix area residents are expected to pay out $21 million for charges against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio after a court ruled that his office racially profiled Latinos....
by Brandon Quester | Dec 16, 2013 | Blog, Monday Muckreads
In Arizona Arizona Republic, 12/15/13, “Deadly border agent incidents cloaked in silence” This Arizona Republic investigation looked at Border Patrol incidents and found “on-duty Border Patrol agents and Customs and Border Protection officers have killed at least 42...
by Brandon Quester | Dec 9, 2013 | Blog, Monday Muckreads
In Arizona: Arizona Republic, 12/8/13, “In Harm’s Way” This four-part series starts with the main findings of an Arizona Republic analysis of the state’s wildfires, which found these forests to be “dangerously overgrown.” According to the Republic, this hasn’t...
by Brandon Quester | Dec 4, 2013 | Multimedia, Politics, Primary Documents, Wire
EDITOR’S NOTE: This report is from The Center for Public Integrity, one of the nation’s largest and oldest nonprofit investigative journalism organizations. The investigation details how state supreme court judges reveal scant financial information,...
by Brandon Quester | Dec 2, 2013 | Blog, Monday Muckreads
In Arizona: Arizona Republic/12 News, 11/30/13, “Arizona Lottery revenue has grown, but tracking how funds are used proves difficult” The Arizona Lottery assures consumers in its ads that revenue from ticket purchases goes to education, health and public welfare, the...
