Barack Obama’s legal mentor publicly scolded the president this week for inserting the White House into a debate about the controversial arrest of Obama’s friend, African-American scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr., by a white police sergeant last year.
Obama “blackened himself” by commenting on the low-level municipal arrest, turning it into an “international story,” said Harvard [...]
Notable investigative stories from newspapers, websites and TV and radio newsrooms in the six New England states plus "Citizen Muckraker" reports. See all the Muckraker stories ->
The Boston Globe Spotlight Team’s in-depth series on the patronage-laden state Probation Department leads to the temporary suspension of Commissioner John O’Brien. Read series
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Baldacci appointee still owes state thousands
James “Jimmy” Cook, the former UPS truck driver and Teamster organizer with friends in high places at the State House, got more than well-paying [...]
A year after Connecticut implemented stricter driving laws for teenagers, a study by the state Department of Motor Vehicles shows that multiple signs of reckless teen driving have decreased [...]
