Author: Dan Christensen
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Will Democrats sell your political opinions to credit card companies?
By Lois Beckett
ProPublica.org
For years, state Democratic parties have been gathering information about individual voters’ political leanings. They have noted down the opinions voters shared with canvassers — which candidates they said they supported or their positions on policy issues. Now, the record of what people told Democratic volunteers may go up for sale — and not just to political groups. -
Grand jury: Miramar police justified in brothers’ shooting deaths, but one’s death “inadvertent”
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
Two years ago, Miramar police shot to death two brothers in a residential parking lot during a nighttime drug investigation. Now it turns out that one of the men – shot six times – was killed by mistake, according to a Broward County Grand Jury report. -
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ATF’s weak enforcement; crippled oversight means troubled guns dealers can stay open years
By Fred Schulte
Center for Public Integrity
The federal agents who visited Scott Taylor’s rural Pennsylvania gun shop in early January 2010 — to conduct the store’s first inspection in more than three decades — found thousands of violations of firearm sales laws. But that wasn’t the end of the story. -
Hallandale sues ex-city manager’s son-in-law for unpaid debt, but may be left holding empty bag
By William Gjebre
BrowardBulldog.org
Hallandale Beach is suing the son-in-law of ex-City Manager Mike Good for failing to repay the city thousands of dollars in tuition reimbursements he received during Good’s tenure. -
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At some schools, achievement lags behind opportunity
By Jennifer LaFleur
ProPublica
Some education experts say the opportunity to take advanced classes is critical to helping low-income students succeed later in life. But opportunity doesn’t always equal achievement. Our new analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education shows that, in some states, Advanced Placement exam passing rates remain lower in schools with more poor students. -
Coconut Creek cops won’t be prosecuted for passing law enforcement computer data to friend
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
The Broward State Attorney’s Office has declined to prosecute three Coconut Creek police officers mixed up in a scheme to improperly access confidential law enforcement databases for personal reasons.
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