President Bush chose to fill two high-level positions yesterday with judges who had given him campaign contributions while under consideration for their judgeships.
Will Evans
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Will Evans is a senior reporter and producer for Reveal, covering labor and tech. His reporting has prompted government investigations, legislation, reforms and prosecutions. A series on working conditions at Amazon warehouses was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and won a Gerald Loeb Award. His work has also won multiple Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards, including for a series on safety problems at Tesla. Other investigations have exposed secret spying at Uber, illegal discrimination in the temp industry and rampant fraud in California's drug rehab system for the poor. Prior to joining The Center for Investigative Reporting in 2005, Evans was a reporter at The Sacramento Bee. He is based in Reveal's Emeryville, California, office.
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Bailey Project exclusive
Exclusive interview with Your Black Muslim Bakery leader by the Chauncey Bailey Project
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The Chauncey Bailey Project
A consortium of reporters investigate the murder of an Oakland journalist and continue his work
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“Back-door earmarks” in NV
A Reno paper uses CIR’s reporting on earmarks to hold senators accountable.
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Sugar industry lobbies to sweeten farm bill
An NPR story, using CIR research, looks at the coming debate over sugar policy.
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More pleas for earmarks
CIR’s FOIA project nets new documents from the Dept. of Health and Human Services
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Let the sunshine in
Thank you to the Sunlight Foundation’s “Real Time Investigations” project, where Bill Allison and Anupama Narayanswamy are undertaking a massive FOIA inquiry to create a searchable database that would be helpful to other reporters (like me).
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GOP likes earmarks too
While Democrats patted themselves on the back for their “earmark-free” spending bill earlier this year, some Republicans accused them of sneaking hidden earmarks into the bill. It turns out that some of the GOP critics were lobbying for earmarks behind the scenes.
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Earmarks
The new Democratic Congress passed a major spending bill earlier this year that it promoted as being stripped of all earmarks and a strike against pork-barrel spending. But even as the bill passed, a joint investigation by CIR and the Los Angeles Times reveals today, top Democrats and members of both parties deluged government agencies […]
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Lawmakers go behind the scenes to save their earmarks
After Democrats won control of Congress, they moved to fulfill their pledge to crack down on the controversial practice of lawmakers slipping projects in spending bills without public scrutiny. In February, they scrapped Republican-drafted bills loaded with earmarks and passed a bill that they boasted had none. Among those celebrating the achievement was Senate Majority […]