|
|
 Newsletter sign-up: Top Headlines |
 
|
Get Breaking News on your cell|
About This Blog
Investigative journalism in the public interest. That’s what we focus on in Dallas-Fort Worth and throughout Texas. Join the conversation. Help us expose the problems and provide solutions. April 2009
Recent Posts
Did Office Depot overcharge Texas taxpayers? Dallas museum boss hasn't repaid loan Investigates Hot Links: Monday, April 20, 2009 Tax officials, AG looking at Coppell test-prep firm Investigates Hot Links: Friday, April 17, 2009 The FAA and the Freedom of Information Act Investigates Hot Links: Thursday, April 16, 2009 Investigates Hot Links: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 Recent Comments
Categories
dallasnews.com Blogs
|
Author Biographies
Brooks has worked for 17 years at The News, first as an editor and later as an award-winning investigative reporter. Much of his work has focused on criminal justice, but his interests range broadly -- food, charities, child care, parks and more. 
Since 2004, Gregg Jones has investigated steroid use among high school athletes, safety lapses in the long-haul trucking industry and abuses in the Texas juvenile justice system. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. Jones previously covered the defense and energy industries and was Asia Bureau Chief for The Dallas Morning News from 1997-2002. 
Katie Fairbank is an enterprise reporter with more than 20 years of reporting and editing experience. Over the years she’s covered a variety of issues. 
Reese is a native of Dallas-Fort Worth and 1998 graduate of the University of Texas in Arlington. He joined The News a year later and has won awards for investigations of business influence on government, the practice of sentencing Texas killers to probation and clergy sex-abuse scandals. 
Ryan joined The Dallas Morning News in 2008 as its computer-assisted reporting editor. He plays a lead role in analyzing large government databases and using geographic information systems software and statistical analysis software in news stories. He mostly recently worked at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. He helped produce a three-day series that found that home foreclosures in South Florida had become an economic crisis affecting everyone from the poor to the wealthy. Before Florida, Ryan spent five years at The Oklahoman in Oklahoma City as database editor and also covered two sessions of the state Legislature. He wrote about a significant increase in overtime by the House of Representatives as the Legislature was telling agencies to limit spending during an economic downturn; firings of dozens of state workers as a new majority took power; and the impeachment of a state official. He was also part of an Oklahoman team that uncovered problems in the state purchase card program, prompting a state investigation. The team found a lack of oversight, an audit that had discovered problems but went unfinished, and officials wining and dining Vietnamese Communist Party officials with taxpayer money. He is a graduate of Oklahoma State University. |
I'm afraid some people are missing the
That is gold. That's some good stuff to
Sherwin has acknowledged sending an e-m
Martha,
I'm not a lawyer, so do
I can not get a credit card closed. The
I have to question the ability of these
>so what??? Who cares if they dont pay
I don't have a problem with the loans u
are you kidding me? $138,000 is under p
As Chris Corder mentioned - we are on t