Jeff Larson

Answering Your Questions on Our California Redistricting Story

Dec. 23, 2011, 7 p.m.

We answer your questions about our California redistricting story.

Rep. Jerry McNerney’s District

Dec. 21, 2011, 6:45 p.m.

Democrats recognized that they could protect Jerry McNerney from being redistricted out of office by the Citizen’s Redistricting Commission.

California Redistricting Commission Emails

Dec. 21, 2011, 3:39 p.m.

California Redistricting Commission Meeting Transcripts

Dec. 21, 2011, 3:39 p.m.

California Redistricting Commission Public Comments

Dec. 21, 2011, 3:39 p.m.

Map: A Tale of Two Districts

Dec. 21, 2011, 3:39 p.m.

How Democrats Fooled California’s Redistricting Commission

Dec. 21, 2011, 3:38 p.m.

To get the districts they wanted, Democrats organized groups that said they represented communities, but really represented the party.

Redistricting, a Devil’s Dictionary

Nov. 2, 2011, 9:08 a.m.

Redistricting is a hard-knuckled game, in which voters often lose. Here are the colorful, and telling, terms used by insiders.

Fair Districts Mass Proposals

Sept. 23, 2011, 6:41 p.m.

Fair Districts Mass says it is an independent group seeking better representation for minorities, but it has proposed maps that call its motives into question.

Florida’s 3rd Congressional District

Sept. 23, 2011, 6:36 p.m.

Congresswoman Corrine Brown, an African-American Democrat from Florida, represents one of the most irregularly shaped districts in the nation.

The Hidden Hands in Redistricting: Corporations and Other Powerful Interests

Sept. 23, 2011, 9:03 a.m.

Opaque redistricting groups are being quietly bankrolled by corporations, unions and others. They are working not to help voters in the communities they claim to represent but to improve the prospects of their political allies or to harm their enemies.

The Opportunity Gap

June 30, 2011, 8:22 a.m.

ProPublica analyzed new data from the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights along with other federal education data to examine whether states provide students equal access.

Search the Fed’s Documents Detailing Their Lending to Banks During the Crisis

April 7, 2011, 7:45 a.m.

Last week, the Federal Reserve released a cache of several thousand pages detailing its support of financial institutions during the financial crisis. The documents, released due to a Freedom of Information Act request,  include the Fed’s lending through its so-called discount window, its oldest lending program of last resort.

Timeline: How One Blast Affected Five Soldiers

March 22, 2011, 12:03 p.m.

FOIA b(3) Exemptions

March 14, 2011, 1:35 p.m.

Information about watermelon handlers, avocado importers and caves are some of the categories of information that have been withheld from federal Freedom of Information Act requesters using sections of laws that are otherwise unrelated to disclosure. There are hundreds of such laws, according to data compiled by the Sunshine in Government Initiative. They fall under number three—known as b(3)—of the nine exemptions. Use our database to see how extensively agencies use b(3) exemptions.

FCIC Document Dive

Jan. 31, 2011, 2:23 p.m.

When the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission released its final report on the causes of the financial crisis, it released an extensive document archive. We’ve tried to make searching through it a bit easier. Use the form below to search for people, places, or organizations mentioned in the documents.

FCIC Document Dive

Jan. 31, 2011, 12:37 p.m.

Five Things You Can Do With Our Interactive Feature on Tainted Drywall

Dec. 17, 2010, 9:53 a.m.

Find Homes With Tainted Drywall

Dec. 15, 2010, 10:05 a.m.

When the Consumer Products Safety Commission provided data in October, the agency said it had received fewer than 3,500 reports of tainted drywall. ProPublica and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune compiled a list of addresses from county property appraiser data and records in consolidated lawsuits filed in New Orleans federal court and found nearly twice that number: around 6,900 homes.