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The coronavirus may give private donors more say over public colleges' classes and professors, observers worry. Secrecy is the norm across the U.S. → Read More
Many of the changes happened over the last 18 months, short-circuiting opportunities for children to get help. → Read More
A non-profit organization will be repaid for legal fees it incurred to defend the public’s right to public records. → Read More
The interactive based on a Reveal series includes newly compiled data from MuckRock, which shows states are adding exemptions to public records laws. → Read More
Ruling is forcing the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority to give the public detailed information about job creation and wages. → Read More
In a small back room at Victory in Praise, a predominantly African American church in the Central Valley city of Stockton, Calif., community organizer Arturo Palato assessed his troops. The gathering included a teacher, a social worker, a salesman and a student — about a dozen in all. A farmworker trims grape vines in a vineyard in Clarksburg, Calif. Faith in the Valley, an interfaith nonprofit… → Read More
Community organizers try to convince volunteers they have a crucial role to play when immigration authorities round up their neighbors. → Read More
Richard Boltuck did not plan to spend most of his waking hours fighting with public officials. He just wanted the state to install a left-turn traffic light at an accident-prone intersection near his home in Bethesda, Maryland. → Read More
In dozens of U.S. cities and states, the rights to publish state and local laws don’t belong to the people or the governments. They belong to private contractors. → Read More
Under what circumstances should footage from police body and dashboard cameras be made public, and how much? → Read More
For more than three decades, Nick Maravell and his family farmed on a 20-acre plot in suburban Maryland, tucked between the Potomac River and megamansions in Potomac, a tony suburb that is home to powerful lobbyists, government contractors and other → Read More
For more than three decades, Nick Maravell and his family farmed on a 20-acre plot in suburban Maryland, tucked between the Potomac River and megamansions in Potomac, a tony suburb that is home to powerful lobbyists, government contractors and other → Read More
The government in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was desperate to find ways to fund its pension plan for city employees, which was about $160 million short. Officials decided in 2012 that selling off the city’s public water system was the best solution. → Read More
Government contracting, which involves billions of dollars in public funds each year, has become one of the least transparent systems that state and local governments maintain. Under the guise of p… → Read More
In a plea deal, former Prince George’s county executive Jack B. Johnson admits in federal court that he took more than $400,000 in bribes. → Read More
Former Prince George’s County executive Jack B. Johnson admitted in federal court on Tuesday that he accepted a $100,000 check from a developer in exchange for steering federal funds to the builder’s project. → Read More