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Lance Williams is a former senior reporter for Reveal, focusing on money and politics. He has twice won journalism’s George Polk Award – for medical reporting while at The Center for Investigative Reporting, and for coverage of the BALCO sports steroid scandal while at the San Francisco Chronicle. With partner Mark Fainaru-Wada, Williams wrote the national bestseller “Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports.” In 2006, the reporting duo was held in contempt of court and threatened with 18 months in federal prison for refusing to testify about their confidential sources on the BALCO investigation. The subpoenas were later withdrawn. Williams’ reporting also has been honored with the White House Correspondents’ Association’s Edgar A. Poe Award; the Gerald Loeb Award for financial reporting; and the Scripps Howard Foundation’s Award for Distinguished Service to the First Amendment. He graduated from Brown University and UC Berkeley. He also worked at the San Francisco Examiner, the Oakland Tribune and the Daily Review in Hayward, California.

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Daniel Sanchez stands in front of the doorway to his barbershop. The storefront’s mural includes an old-fashioned red-and-blue barber’s pole.
Posted inInequality

Banking on inequity

Emily HarrisBrett Simpson portrait by Laura C. Morel, Mohamed Al Elew, Emily Harris, Lance Williams, Amy Mostafa, David Rodriguez, Taki Telonidis, Esther Kaplan, Soo Oh, Brett Simpson, Ameeta Ganatra, Sarah Mirk, Jim Briggs, Fernando Arruda and Kevin Sullivan May 1, 2021July 1, 2021

Billions of dollars were supposed to help small businesses through the Paycheck Protection Program. But the money was marred by racial inequity.

Anthony Rendon stands among other legislators in the California Assembly chambers as they applaud.
Posted inAccountability

Since California speaker rose to power, corporate donations flowed to nonprofits tied to his wife

by Lance Williams and Hannah Wiley February 19, 2021June 30, 2021

Since 2016, nonprofits associated with Anthony Rendon’s wife have received more than $500,000 from companies with business before the Legislature.

Angely Rodriguez stands in front of a McDonald’s sign, holding a protest banner. It reads: “McDonald’s, protect essential workers, protección ahora.”
Posted inCOVID-19

Charging COVID-19 failures, California lawmaker seeks to crack down on fast food chains

by Lance Williams January 15, 2021June 30, 2021

The new legislation charges that the industry has flouted rules designed to keep workers safe during the pandemic.

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A graphic illustration shows a burger in a cardboard box, a container of french fries and a soft drink, overlaid with images of viruses.
Posted inCOVID-19

Not lovin’ it

by Lance Williams January 15, 2021June 30, 2021

McDonald’s across the country are hit by COVID-19 outbreaks as hundreds of complaints allege safety breakdowns.

A collage in purple and green hues shows the states of California and Florida, with photos of the governors of the two states.
Posted inCOVID-19

How a national health crisis fell on the backs of local leaders

Emily Harris by Lance Williams, Laura C. Morel, Marisa Lagos, Caitie Switalski, Melissa Lewis, Emily Harris, Soo Oh and Jen Chien June 18, 2020June 30, 2021

With a leadership vacuum in Washington, the San Francisco Bay Area’s shelter-in-place orders led the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

A collage of an American flag and painted coronavirus cells is in the background. In the foreground is text reading Divided States of Pandemic
Posted inCOVID-19

Divided states of the pandemic

Emily Harris by Kevin Sullivan, Najib Aminy, Mwende Hinojosa, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Amy Mostafa, Al Letson, Jen Chien, Emily Harris, Lance Williams, Laura C. Morel, Esther Kaplan, Soo Oh and Melissa Lewis June 13, 2020December 15, 2021

The federal government’s failure to manage the pandemic shifted the burden to local officials. We look at state responses in California and Florida.

A cardboard sign says "stay at home" outside a house
Posted inCOVID-19

Quarantine nation

by Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Mwende Hinojosa, Amy Mostafa, Najib Aminy, Al Letson, Will Carless, Will Evans, Taki Telonidis, Elizabeth Shogren, Jennifer Gollan, Brett Myers, Lance Williams and Katharine Mieszkowski March 28, 2020July 1, 2021

Quarantines are supposed to contain the new coronavirus, but are the right people going into isolation, and are federal guidelines strong enough?

Governor Jerry Brown looking concerned and speaking at a podium.
Posted inAccountability, COVID-19

California created a massive medical reserve – with acute care beds, ventilators and N95 masks — then let it collapse

by Lance Williams, Will Evans and Will Carless March 27, 2020June 30, 2021

Mobile acute care hospitals, ventilators and N95 respirators were stocked, but state leaders refused to allocate funds to maintain them.

A woman carries a box out of the post office in the wintry landscape of Toksook Bay.
Posted inAccountability

Fear of a census undercount

by Matt Smith and Lance Williams February 1, 2020June 30, 2021

Anti-immigrant sentiment, partisanship and untested technologies risk a historic undercount in 2020, which could distort U.S. politics and spending for a decade.

A collage illustration places a vintage cartoon about the census, featuring uncle sam saying "it's time to measure yourself again" to a bear, over a map of the Southern United States.
Posted inAccountability

Don’t count on the census

by Al Letson, Priska Neely, Esther Kaplan, Matt Smith, Taki Telonidis, Lance Williams, Kevin Sullivan, Fernando Arruda, Jim Briggs, Amy Mostafa, Will Carless, Mwende Hinojosa and Najib Aminy February 1, 2020June 30, 2021

As the 2020 census approaches, experts warn the count will be inaccurate. A look at why the census is struggling and whether efforts to save it can work.

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