Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
5 April 2021
Chippewa Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
In areas with no newspapers, locals are increasingly turning to Facebook groups to share resources and information about local happenings, particularly crime. Many of The News Alerts of Beaver County's 43,000 members ...
21 March 2021
Georgia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Georgia's Covid-19 vaccine rollout has been slow and confusing, but Wisconsin's offers lessons for how to improve the system. Unlike Georgia, Wisconsin has created a pre-registration list to eliminate confusion regard...
20 March 2021
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Companies are making the move to Atlanta in their efforts to diversify their workforces. Corporate diversity is hard to achieve in places like Silicon Valley. Instead, companies like Pandora have drastically increased...
20 March 2021
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Five years after South Dakota replaced a failing, punitive juvenile justice system that emphasized incarceration and probation with approaches focused on rehabilitation and local services for youth, the state's invest...
15 March 2021
United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Although no universal set of policies were likely to have prevented the spread of Covid-19, the general inaction and lax interventions by countries in the western hemisphere prevented Europe, North America, and South ...
12 March 2021
Chico, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
A series of killings by the police sparked a community-led movement urging greater accountability and better training. The campaign bore fruit when the Chico mayor formed a committee to examine use of force policies. ...
5 March 2021
Rhode Island, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Rhode Island was commended by many for keeping the case rate relatively low, but a combination of factors quickly reversed that trend. Although some reasons for the state's fa...
3 March 2021
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
A shortage of available affordable housing in Santa Fe, New Mexico was exacerbated by inclusionary zoning laws that discouraged real estate development. Restrictions on new rental properties drastically increased rent...
1 March 2021
Minnesota, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
In 2013, Minnesota’s Medical Assistance Medicaid program expanded to include access for those who were providing support as doulas, but many barriers faced those who tried to get on the registry. From a registration f...
26 February 2021
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A tax credit was supposed to incentive Americans to buy electric vehicles, but testimony from car buyers and research has shown that only people who can afford the full purchase are getting access to the benefit. The ...
26 February 2021
New York, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In the more than five years since New York's governor ordered the attorney general to take charge of investigations and prosecutions when police kill unarmed people, only three police officers have been charged with c...
23 February 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Universities are breeding grounds for COVID-19. In August and September they had to figure out the best way to test, control, and contain a virus on campus. Across the country universities launched a plethora of metho...
22 February 2021
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The U.S. Department of Justice documented dangerous conditions in the Oklahoma County Detention Center that led to a 2009 court settlement requiring the county to staff and fund its jail adequately. But the Justice De...
22 February 2021
Texas, United States
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
After winter storms and freezing temperatures in 2011 and 2014 caused power plants in Texas to shut down, the state’s energy regulators failed to adapt the state’s electric grid for future extreme weather events. Expe...
19 February 2021
Texas, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
By relying on the market to give energy suppliers' incentives to keep the power going during extreme weather events, a historic cold snap in Texas revealed cracks in the state’s free-market energy system, which left m...
18 February 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
About “1,500 (High School) students from 75 of the nation’s poorest schools in 35 cities,” are enrolling in college courses in elite universities like Harvard and Colombia through an initiative started by a nonprofit—...
17 February 2021
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Starting in the early 1990s, thousands of American towns and cities passed "crime-free housing" ordinances that purport to reduce crime in rental housing. The laws encourage or require landlords to evict tenants based...
16 February 2021
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Text
1500-3000 Words
Since its April 2018 founding in Malaysia, the Be My Protector app has enabled interventions in 120 cases of suspected human trafficking, sparked by anonymous reports that its app enables. In about a third of those ca...
15 February 2021
Pennsylvania, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
When Pennsylvania's coronavirus rent relief program rolled out during the first few months of the pandemic, it failed to help many due to strict deadlines, poor information management, a payment cap, and overall proce...
14 February 2021
Washington, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Because Washington state health officials failed to prioritize the planning of basic logistics for disseminating the COVID vaccine, the state quickly fell behind others in vaccinating the most vulnerable and at risk. ...
11 February 2021
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
LEAD (Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion) proved itself in Seattle as effective at addressing the underlying problems of people experiencing homelessness, by waiving their criminal charges if they accepted needed serv...
11 February 2021
Mississippi, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The federal Voting Rights Act required states to ensure access to the polls for Black voters and set up mechanisms for federal enforcement. The law worked well in the Jim Crow South, though was not built to deal with ...
8 February 2021
Washington, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
13 Washington school districts are piloting COVID-19 testing. By doing so, they can catch stop asymptomatic people from spreading the virus, offer testing to families who might not have access, and add a “sense of sec...
7 February 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Since June 2019, Chicago's Grounds for Peace pilot project has begun cleaning up vacant, city-owned lots using an approach to urban beautification that has been shown in other cities, and in one Chicago neighborhood, ...
5 February 2021
England, United Kingdom
Text
1500-3000 Words
As governments and businesses make pledges to cut their carbon emissions, planting tress has become a popular solution to combat the effects of climate change. But tree-planting schemes take time and proper management...
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