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April 29, 2012 In the past five years, Massachusetts residents have been forced to witness an embarrassing parade of fallen public servants caught up in corrupt acts, handcuffed and led away. Yet the overwhelming majority of public servants embroiled in criminal or ethical scandals since 2007 are people most in Massachusetts have never heard of.
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March 21, 2012A joint investigation by Teens in Print and NECIR
has discovered that personnel at 71 percent of pharmacies did not respond with the correct age or ID requirements needed to buy the emergency contraceptive pill.
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March 25, 2012Massachusetts cities and towns are increasingly relying on a thinning pool of lottery revenues to bridge their budget gaps, deepening the shaky financial footing of many poorer communities that rely heavily on state aid, an analysis of lottery and local aid data by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting found.
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March 19, 2012Massachusetts ranks 10th in the State Integrity Investigation conducted by the Center for Public Integrity, Global Integrity and Public Radio International, with a grade of C and a numerical score of 74.
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March 20, 2012As the nation’s highest court prepares to hear oral arguments today on the constitutionality of sending juvenile killers to life in prison with no chance for parole, an unlikely trio of Bostonians is hopeful the justices move quickly to abolish the sentence.
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February 19, 2012The record bill for last years’s outages-- that left hundreds of thousands of home and business owners in the dark across Massachusetts-- is just a symptom of potentially deeper problems with the reliability of the state’s electric grid, an investigation by the New England Center for Reporting has found.
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February 22, 2012A state judge late today ordered the University of Massachusetts-Amherst police department to stop taping conversations in their new $12.5 million headquarters, following complaints from officers they were being secretly recorded for at least a year.
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