China’s most famous investigative journalist works out of a closet-sized room on the second floor of an anonymous office building on the outskirts of Beijing. That he works at all is a wonder.
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- Selling senior care: Costly dementia care failing to keep Oregon seniors safeThe Oregonian spent more than a year investigating memory care in Oregon, where over 100,000 records and accounts from hundreds of memory care workers and families showed evidence of abuse, high prices and understaffing. Confirmed cases of abuse are more than twice as prevalent in memory care facilities as they are in other types of Oregon […]
- How a company's natural gas keeps blowing up Texas homes — while customers pay the tabMore than two dozen homes across North and Central Texas have blown up since 2006 because of leaking natural gas, an investigation by The Dallas Morning News found. Nine people died; at least 22 others were badly injured. And the state agency over pipeline safety rarely fines companies for serious safety problems, even when they […]
- Toothless Texas inmates denied dentures in state prisonAn investigation from the Houston Chronicle found inmates without teeth in the Texas prison system are often denied dentures on the premise they aren't medically necessary. Instead, prisons opt to feed inmates pureed meals. In a population of more than 149,000 inmates in 2016, prison medical providers approved giving out 71 dentures. The Chronicle heard […]