Timber Tax Cuts Cost Oregon Towns Billions. Then Polluted Water Drove Up the Price.
Rural communities in Oregon paid millions of dollars for clean, safe drinking water because the state didn’t protect their watersheds from logging-related contamination.
About the Local Reporting Network
ProPublica is supporting local and regional newsrooms as they work on important investigative projects affecting their communities. Topics include sexual violence, conflicts of interest, housing, and workplace safety. Our partner, the Anchorage Daily News, won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for our collaboration.
Officials Let Hawaii’s Waterfront Homeowners Damage Public Beaches Again and Again
Everybody knows that seawalls cause beach loss, and Hawaii law forbids building them. But Honolulu County officials have granted exemptions to 46 homeowners over the past two decades even as a quarter of Oahu’s beaches have disappeared.
Alaska Requires DNA Be Collected From People Arrested for Violent Crimes. Many Police Have Ignored That.
By failing to collect samples when they arrest people, Alaskan law enforcement left the state’s DNA database with crucial gaps, allowing at least one serial rapist to go undetected.
After a Violent Crime, Arizona Promised Reforms for People With Developmental Disabilities. It Has Yet to Deliver.
After a woman with developmental disabilities was raped and gave birth to a child in a state home, a task force recommended changes to improve care for some of Arizona’s most vulnerable residents. Only a third of them have been fully implemented.
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These reporters are pursuing a broad range of important investigative projects in partnership with ProPublica over a three-year period.
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Kyle Hopkins
Anchorage Daily News
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The Southern Illinoisan
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Rob Perez
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
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Chicago Tribune
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MLK50: Justice Through Journalism
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Mountain State Spotlight
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Reporter: R.G. Dunlop
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Reporter: Lulu Ramadan
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Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Featured Series
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Lawless
Sexual Violence in Alaska
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Paradise Lost
Hawaii’s Disappearing Beaches
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State of Denial
Inside Arizona’s Division of Developmental Disabilities
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Defenseless
Investigating the Only State Without Public Defenders
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Critical Condition
Investigating the Business of Oklahoma’s Rural Hospitals
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Profiting from the Poor
Inside Memphis’ Debt Machine
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The Cutting
Investigating Industrial Logging in Oregon
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Desperation Town
How Youngstown Gave Itself Away for the Promise of Jobs
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Pollution Profiteers
Inside California’s Toxic Hauling Industry
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At a Great Price
The True Cost of the Sears Headquarters Deal
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Big Jim
West Virginia’s Conflicted Governor
Other Series
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Sunken Costs
Coal Ash in Georgia
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Promised Land
A Failed Housing Pledge to Native Hawaiians
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Power Play
The Influence of Virginia’s Biggest Utility
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Polluter’s Paradise
Environmental Impact in Louisiana
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Campus Complicity
Faculty Sexual Misconduct in Illinois
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The Untouchables
Investigating South Carolina’s Judges
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Miswired
How Kentucky Missed the Tech Revolution
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A 911 Emergency
Rhode Island’s Deadly 911 Flaws
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Invisible Walls
Connecticut’s Separate and Unequal Housing
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The Real Bosses of New Jersey
How Unelected Officials Run Your Government
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Locked Down
An Investigation of Mississippi’s Prisons
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Overcorrection
Crisis in California Jails
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Accused in Elkhart
Justice in an Indiana County
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Louisiana’s Ethical Swamp
Lawmakers’ Conflicts of Interest
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A Sick System
Repeat Attacks After Pleading Insanity
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The New Power Brokers
West Virginia’s Natural Gas Industry
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Half-life
Nuke Lab Workers Getting Sick
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HUD’s House of Cards
Public Housing Failures
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Trauma After Tragedy
PTSD in First Responders
