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National editor at KFF Health News. Loves D.C. local news. kytjaw@kff.org Find me on Signal: Kytja.887

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Law-Breaking Judges Took Cases That Could Make Them Even Richer

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By Kytja Weir Verified, Chris Young, Reity O’Brien, Reity O’ Brien
| The Daily Beast Verified
When Linda Wolicki-Gables and her husband appealed a lawsuit all the way to the second-highest court in the nation against Johnson & Johnson over a malfunctioning medication pump that had been implanted in her body, the couple had no idea that one of the judges who decided their case had a financial stake in the giant multinational company.
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Where money mattered and where it didn’t: Colorado Prop. 112

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By Kytja Weir Verified
| publicintegrity.org
Environmentalists lost against an energy-backed Goliath on Tuesday when Colorado voters rejected a ballot measure, 57 percent to 43 percent, that called for severely curtailing where oil and gas wells could be drilled across the state. Proponents pushed a similar measure in 2016 that never made the ballot. Then, in April 2017,  two people died in a house explosion caused by a nearby gas well in Firestone, Colorado. The accident galvanized green activists to try again.
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Metro workers are taking home big overtime dollars

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By Kytja Weir Verified, Byron York Verified
| Washington Examiner Verified
A Metro construction inspector made $32,089.52 in overtime in the first two months of this year, according to Metro figures, working the equivalent of 16 hours every single day, including weekends and holidays. The inspector, who makes an annual base salary of $75,368, worked twice as much overtime as he logged in regular hours during that time.
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