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Daniel Lathrop

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Doesn't Cover: consumer health, new products, gadgets
Daniel Lathrop is an investigative data journalist on the Pennsylvania Avenue Unit at Scripps News and member of the Emmy Award-winning Scripps News Data Team.
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Tenures of Supreme Court justices

Tenures of Supreme Court justices

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Trump is off on claim that the United States spends the most on education

Trump is off on claim that the United States spends the most on education

politifact.com — As Donald Trump speechified his way through Iowa auditoriums and gyms to his No. 2 finish in the Republican caucuses, he made a lot of claims in a lot of places. Many of those reinforced a central theme: Professional politicians are failing and President Trump’s business and personal savvy would be the antidote. His claim that the United States outspends other countries on K-12 education by a "factor of four" was part of that narrative. And it caught our attention. "We spend more money than anyone else any other country in the world by a lot," he went on to ...
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Iowa Isn't The State Presidential Candidates Pretend It Is

Iowa Isn't The State Presidential Candidates Pretend It Is

FiveThirtyEight — My fellow Iowans will tell me they live in a farm state, that agriculture is Iowa's life blood. So will the presidential candidates, who trek to the Iowa State Fair and other farm settings and put on checked shirts and dust off whatever farming bona fides they can muster. "This is not a new cause for me," Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton said while standing in front of a John Deere tractor on an Iowa campaign stop. "Now a lot of people, and probably a number of you here today, don't realize this, but New York - where I was elected to the Senate twice - is actually a major farm state," she said.
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TexElex2014 Governor results

TexElex2014 Governor results

The Dallas Morning News — 2014 election results for Governor tabulated by The Dallas Morning News data team.
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Boutique hospitals pay a fine, agree to monitoring on kickback allegations

Boutique hospitals pay a fine, agree to monitoring on kickback allegations

Dallas Morning News — A chain of high-end, doctor-owned hospitals serving private patients has paid more than $260,000 and accepted federal monitoring for up to two years to avoid criminal charges over allegations that it paid doctors kickbacks for referring military families. Forest Park Medical Center has three North Texas hospitals and is building new hospitals in Fort Worth, San Antonio and Austin. Its state of the art hospitals in Dallas, Frisco and Southlake advertise "VIP suites."
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After West disaster, News study finds U.S. chemical safety data wrong about 90 percent

After West disaster, News study finds U.S. chemical safety data wrong about 90 percent

Dallas Morning News — Even the best national data on chemical accidents is wrong nine times out of 10. A Dallas Morning News analysis of more than 750,000 federal records found pervasive inaccuracies and holes in data on chemical accidents, such as the one in West that killed 15 people and injured more than 300. In fact, no one at any level of government knows how often serious chemical accidents occur each year in the United States. And there is no plan in place for federal agencies to gather more accurate information.
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The News ranks best neighborhoods in the Dallas region

The News ranks best neighborhoods in the Dallas region

Dallas Morning News — Our neighborhoods are more than places on a map. They're where we live, work and play. But what makes one better than another? And how do you know? To answer those questions, The Dallas Morning News conducted a yearlong analysis of the quality of life in Dallas, Collin, Denton, Rockwall and parts of Tarrant counties. Best Neighborhoods In our ongoing Best in D-FW series, The Dallas Morning News has analyzed quality-of-life issues across the region to help you identify the best Dallas-area neighborhoods for you. The News used scientific polls and gigabytes of raw data to benchmark neighborhoods on everything from the burglary rate to how many people have gardens.
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Many Texas plants lack safety inspections despite risks, data shows

Many Texas plants lack safety inspections despite risks, data shows

Dallas Morning News — Twenty-two percent of plants in Texas that regulators say pose a risk of explosion or toxic release have never have been inspected for emergency preparedness, federal data shows. Another 10 percent were inspected, but not by federal, state or even local governments. Instead, those facilities reported inspections by their own contractors, insurance companies or employees, according to an analysis of the data by The Dallas Morning News. In total, 33 percent of the more than 1,300 facilities in Texas that filed emergency plans with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency either said they had not had an "outside safety inspection" or did not specify one by a government agency.
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The FBI's Terrorism Trade-Off

The FBI's Terrorism Trade-Off

Seattle Post-Intelligencer — Focus on national security after 9/11 means that the agency has turned its back on thousands of white-collar crimes. Thousands of white-collar criminals across the country are no longer being prosecuted in federal court - and, in many cases, not at all - leaving a trail of frustrated victims and potentially billions of dollars in fraud and theft losses. It is the untold story of the Bush administration's massive restructuring of the FBI after the terrorism attacks of 9/11.
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