AnalysisJustice ‘Take Back New Orleans’ One phrase haunts both Law & Disorder and If God is Willing and da Creek Don’t Rise, two television documentaries released this week featuring the work of Investigative Fund reporter A.C. Thompson: “Take back New Orleans.” George WarnerAugust 27, 2010
ImpactBusiness New York, New Jersey Go After Sodexo Rebates First New York, now New Jersey. Eighteen months after Investigative Fund piece “Cafeteria Kickbacks” was published in In These Times, New Jersey Assembly members Linda Greenstein and Wayne DeAngelo are now asking New Jersey Attorney General Paula Dow to investigate the extent of Sodexo’s rebate fraud in the state… George WarnerAugust 13, 2010
NewsBusiness, Labor The Big Beverage Problem A report released last Monday by British NGO War on Want and Unite, Britain’s largest union, “A Bitter Cup,” documents the precarious lives of tea processors and pickers in the developing world. While UK’s socialist daily, the Morningstar, covered the report, it has been for the most part ignored by the media… George WarnerAugust 4, 2010
ImpactBusiness, Environment Uncovering Fiji Water: Continued Impact One Year Later Nearly a year after its publication in Mother Jones, Anna Lenzer’s story on Fiji Water and the corrupt politics in Fiji is continuing to have an impact — now on leading thinkers like Ethan Zuckerman of The Berkman Center for Internet and Society. George WarnerJuly 26, 2010
NewsEnvironment, Health Lifesaving Drugs a Menace for Health Workers Pacific Northwest-based investigative unit Investigate West just released a report on the dangers of chemotherapy drugs for American health-care workers. George WarnerJuly 13, 2010
AnalysisBusiness The New Foreclosures: Homes Seized for Unrelated Unpaid Bills NPR did a great piece the other day uncovering a little known law that has caused 10 percent of Texas’s foreclosures… George WarnerJuly 13, 2010