 January 12, 2012An investigation by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting shows that regulators in Maine and nearby states have taken months and even years to sanction facilities violating the Clean Air Act – even those the government itself has called HPVs, such as the Old Town paper mill.
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 December 27, 2011Profound inequities have grown up in the Massachusetts juvenile justice system since passage of a 1996 law aimed at cracking down on juvenile “super predators’’ by requiring them to be tried in adult court, an investigation by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting has found.
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 December 16, 2011A shortage of lifesaving drugs used on ambulances and in emergency rooms is endangering patient lives and forcing some hospitals to turn to a thriving “gray market” of pharmaceutical re-sellers to obtain the scarce medications, sometimes at prices more than 1,000 percent above their original cost, The New England Center for Investigative Reporting has learned.
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 November 20, 2011
For Bruins owner Jeremy Jacobs, the ka-ching being heard after the team’s championship season is simply icing on the cake for an extraordinary, decades-long run. With bare bones local investment, the elusive Buffalo-based billionaire and his Delaware North concessions empire have reaped hundreds of millions in profits off his Boston hockey and arena operations. |
 October 23, 2011
Over the past 18 months, NStar, National Grid and other investor-owned utilities have spent more than $400,000 on lobbying against that legislation and either for or against several other industry-related bills in front of the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy, according to an investigation by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting (NECIR). |
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 September 25th, 2011
Currently only a handful of Bay State communities, some of them with small police departments that don’t have enough officers to do details, use civilian flaggers on local street projects, according to a survey by The New England Center for Investigative Reporting (NECIR). |
 August 14th, 2011
Nearly half of all road and bridge projects in the state are over budget and more than one-third are not completed on time, an investigation by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting (NECIR) has found. The completion delays result in contract extensions that put thousands of extra work days on the state's construction calendar and millions of dollars in contractors' pockets. |
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 July 23rd, 2011
An analysis of boat registration and tax records has found that the state’s failure to change the system is costing cities and towns millions in potential revenue at a time when communities are struggling to fund critical programs. |
 June 19th, 2011Eighteen months after the Turnpike Authority and other agencies were rolled into the state’s new Department of Transportation to cut costs and duplication, the Patrick administration now predicts the merger will save about $2 billion over the next two decades – far less than the up to $6.5 billion in savings promised by legislative leaders. |
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 May 23rd, 2011
Massachusetts superfund sites are still toxic after nearly 30 Years and more than $1 billion towards chemical clean-up costs. |
 April 8th, 2011
Internal government watchdogs and outside experts alike say the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is too lenient on the industry it is charged with regulating, often making decisions based on the industry’s profit margins rather than safety. |
