I’m pretty slow to update this page, but below is an assortment of work, grouped by venue.
Connecticut Health Investigative Team
- Handful Of High Prescribers Boost Medicare Spending, New Data Show
- Data Mine: Nursing Homes
- Data Mine: Hospitals
- Data Mine: Hospital Infections
Miami Herald
- Boom, Bust, & Back
- A lopsided comeback: How the housing recovery favors the rich
- Housing rebound eludes poor neighborhoods
- New mansions loom over tiny Key Biscayne
- Brickell condo scene feels like deja vu
- Hardluck Homestead lags in housing recovery
- Kid-friendly vibe draws house-hunters to Weston
Florida Center for Investigative Reporting
- In Sunshine State, Big Energy Blocks Solar Power
- As Gov. Scott Denies Ban, ‘Climate Change’ Order Reported at Other Agencies
- Poverty, Homelessness Rising Sharply Among Florida Students
- Florida Leads Nation in Boating Deaths
- Visualized: Florida’s Uninsured and Medicaid Eligible
- Visualized: Guns and Murder in Florida
- Visualized: Gun Money in Florida
- Florida and Foreclosures
- Interactive Map: Scrutinize How Much Education Money Florida Counties Received
- Interactive Map: Analyze How Two Counties Offered Teacher Incentives
- Interactive Map: Examine Title I Schools Statewide
- Large Corporations Cash in on Florida Environmental Fund
- 13th Grade: Older, Returning Students Strain Florida’s College System
Memphis Commercial Appeal
- Our Financial Mess: How It Happened, What It Means (PNG)
- Debt: “This is a monster breathing down our neck.” (PNG)
- Annexation: “You had a lot of people voting with their feet.” (PNG)
- Population loss: “We created disposable communities.” (PNG)
- Pensions: “There’s just something wrong when a 39-year-old can retire with a full pension.” (PNG)
- DROP: “It was sort of like…giving city employees golden parachutes.”
(PNG) - MPD: “The community is up in arms.”
(PNG) - Our Financial Mess (PNG)
- Bartlett couple pleads guilty to animal-cruelty charges (PNG)
- “Blue Flu” interactive timeline
- Fire officials remind Shelby County residents that fireworks are illegal (PNG)
- Housing vacancy declines in Shelby County (PNG)
- Memphis-area trails interactive map (PNG)
- Plough Foundation set to jump-start aging initiative as aging population increases (PNG)
- Examining another challenge to Cohen, and representation by race in the 9th (PNG)
- Now You Know: Undergraduate brain gain (PNG)
- Research suggests tornadoes touch down at landscape transitions (PNG)
- Former president of Rhodes College in Memphis dies at 80 (PNG)
- Millions paid to Medicare doctors in Memphis (PNG)
- What we know so far about the Galilee Gardens case (PNG)
- Obama appears on Galifianakis’ show ‘Between Two Ferns’ to plug health insurance reform (PNG)
- Victory University to close due to financial difficulties (PNG)
- Shelby County Schools employee salary database is now searchable (PNG)
- What we know about the Wolfchase Galleria jewelry heist (PNG)
- Is spate of Memphis robbery-homicides a trend? Unlikely, one expert says (PNG)
- Tennessee recognizes 33 ‘Reward Schools’ in Memphis and Shelby County (PNG)
- Poverty industry drives Memphis economy (PNG)
- Complaints plummet on Shelby County 2013 reappraisal (PNG)
- Presidential vote by precinct reveals Shelby County’s diverse range of support, opposition for Obama (PNG)
- Economic Mobility: The likelihood a child in the lowest 5th income bracket rises to the highest 5th (PNG)
- Beale Street interactive map (PNG)
- Only handful of operators own bulk of businesses on Memphis’ Beale Street (PNG)
- Inequality In Memphis (PNG)
- 46 years after his death, King’s prescription to end poverty remains unfilled (PNG)
- Products of their environment, some are bound to struggle (PNG)
- Wharton proposes a roadmap out of poverty, into prosperity (PNG)
- Friday night a trifecta for Memphis sports fans (PNG)
- Community Focus: Somerville (PNG)
- Community Focus: Parkin, Ark. (PNG)
- Community Focus: Moscow, Tenn. (PNG)
- Tennessee schools report card (PNG)
- CASH CROP: A law originally intended to protect family farms and rural open space now shelters the rich and famous from taxes. (PNG)
- CASH CROP: Tennessee farmland protection law shelters taxes for rich and famous (PNG)
- CASH CROP: Tax breaks sprout for Tennessee ‘farmers’ (PNG)
- CASH CROP: Greenbelt properties in Tennessee (PNG)
- CASH CROP: Tennessee Greenbelts, by county (PNG)
- Food stamp use, fraud on increase (PNG)
- Car thefts in Memphis fall nearly 50% (PNG)
- Car thefts in Memphis fall nearly 50% (PNG)
- Racial disparities in causes of death (PNG)
- Tennessee hate crime rate relatively low, TBI says (PNG)
- Teachers generally satisfied, Tennessee survey finds (PNG)
- TELL Tennessee education survey results 2011 (PNG)
- Memphis-area farmers markets (PNG)
- Memphis lost more than 3,000 residents since 2000 Census (PNG)
- Census sums up stagnant Memphis metro area (PNG)
- Gap exists in campus reporting of crimes (PNG)
- Campus crime in Tennessee and Mississippi (PNG)
- Will Democrats’ late momentum carry day? (PNG)
- Turnout picks up for early balloting; candidates scramble for late support (PNG)
- Early-voting Democrats stepping up around Shelby County (PNG)
- Blight in Memphis (PNG)
- Crime trends in Memphis and Shelby County (PNG)
- Now you know: Commuting (PNG)
- Now you know: City parks (PNG)
- Now you know: College degrees (PNG)
- Tamales in Greater Memphis (PNG)
- Ernest Withers: Exposed (PNG)
- Now you know: Student loans (PNG)
- Student loan default rates in Memphis (PNG)
- Proposed charter recommendation from the Memphis and Shelby County Metropolitan Government Charter Commission
- Town of Walls employee salaries (PNG)
- City of Millington employee salaries (PNG)
- Shelby County Jail screens inmates’ immigration statuses (PNG)
- DeSoto County Schools salaries (PNG)
- Polls say touted battle fizzles; Herenton undaunted by Cohen’s numbers (PNG)
- Ridge Grove: Should it be the first Memphis neighborhood to go? (PNG)
- ELECTION DAY LIVE COVERAGE: Germantown High students have at least SOME results (PNG)
- Landing Electrolux: Why government’s approved an exceptional package of cash and perks to lure a global corporation (PNG)
- Shelby County Election Commission will slow process to prevent ballot problems (PNG)
- Sample ballot for Aug. 5, 2010 election in Shelby County, Tennessee
- Blood Trade: Crime map
- City of Germantown employee salaries
- Obama endorses Steve Cohen in 9th Congressional District race (PNG)
- City school officials among top paid in Memphis, Shelby County (PNG)
- City of Bartlett employee salaries
- Town of Collierville employee salaries
- Bass Pro lease agreement with the City of Memphis
- Now you know: Working for Memphis
- Now you know: National Parks Week
- Church Secrets
- Now you know: Sexually transmitted diseases
- Mining Fatalities 1983-2008
- Now you know: Religion
- Crime’s on the rise on state’s campuses (PNG)
- School spending per pupil in Tennessee
- Now you Know: Education spending
- Now you Know: Age and sex in Shelby
- Shelby County population by age and gender
- Now you know: Pedestrian deaths in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi
- Now you know: Pedestrian Deaths
- Now you know: Census 2010
- Now you know: Internet Usage
- Tennessee gun permits up 23% last year; increase 16% in Shelby County (PNG)
- Now you know: Army Recruits
- Now you know: Winter Weather
- Army recruits in the Memphis MSA
- Super Bowl Facts
- MLGW Power Outages
- Now you know: Deer Hunting
- Now you know: Jobs
- Now you know: Health
- Now you know: Census
- 10 for 10: Some telling Memphis-area statistics from the decade
- One teenager stubbornly fights to escape drugs, crime, poor education (PNG)
- Mid-South children living in poverty
- City schools district is 17th poorest in state (PNG)
- West Tennessee’s Wildlife Management Areas
- Shelby County nursing homes fail inspection
- Cash for Clunkers in the Mid-South
- Mileage not top clunker concern
- Shelby County employee salaries
- Sheriff’s deputies raid City of Memphis Animal Shelter
- Living with Crime: Life inside a war zone
- Pets are victims of ruffff economy at Memphis Animal Service (PNG)
- Navigating our True Crime series on commercialappeal.com: A roadmap (PNG)
- Homicides get the headlines, but theft, robbery, assault are more likely to happen in Memphis (PNG)
- True Crime (PNG)
- True Crime: A decade of homicides (PNG)
- True Crime: A week in Memphis crime (PNG)
- City of Memphis employees’ salaries
- Insurance estimates in the Mid-South
- Memphis crime over time
- Memphis Light, Gas and Water salaries 2008
- Memphis ranks 21st in murders for 2008 (PNG)
- Employment in Tennessee industries
- Memphis factory jobs fell 24 percent since 1998 (PNG)
- University of Tennessee employee salaries
- Shelby County Restaurant Inspections
- Memphis Tigers Football Scores 1912-2007
- Tennessee Board of Regents employee salaries
- Shelby County Schools employee salaries
- Armed and dangerous: Dozens with violent histories received handgun carry permits (PNG)
- Gun laws get push in Tennessee House
- Tennessee Handgun Carry Permits
- Federal funds could help with Frayser foreclosures (PNG)
- Memphis Tigers basketball scores
- Railroad accidents in the mid-south
- Search nursing homes nationwide
- Memphis International Airport is average in self-reported safety incidents
- Search for unsafe incidents in the Memphis region
- Precinct Voting Analysis
- Voting by Shelby County Precincts
- Crime uptick alarms citizens
- Veterans in the United States
- Voter turnout in Shelby County could top 75 percent
- Reader reports of voting problems in Shelby County
- McCain leads area’s fundraising, but Obama slowly catching up (PNG)
- Presidential campaign contributions
- Contributions to the candidates
- In the world of fundraising, debate home is McCain Country (PNG)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Alcohol and death collide on Highway 41 (PNG)
- Alcohol-related fatal crashes 2003-’07 (PDF)
- State data show Highway 41’s danger (PNG)
- Teen hit by ex-boyfriend (PNG)
- Blood alcohol concentration calculator (PNG)
- Race gap found in pothole patching (PNG)
- Geography guides pothole priority (GIF)
- Milwaukee database, statistical software show pothole disparity (PNG)
- Disappearing partner, departing students: The Auer Avenue story
- DNR still lagging in inspecting Wisconsin dams (PNG)
- Wisconsin dam inspection reports (PNG)
- Day care where baby died didn’t file required report (PNG)
- Day care license suspended (PNG)
- Census figures show Milwaukee population is steady (PNG)
- MATC faculty boost pay by picking up extra courses (PNG)
- MATC salaries and overtime in 2007
- Pets carry odd names (PNG)
- Pet registrations in Milwaukee County (PNG)
- Dirty Data (PNG)
- 3 problematic dams haven’t been checked since ’93 (PNG)
Master’s project
- Aging systems releasing sewage into rivers, streams (USA Today)
- Aging sewers threaten environment, public health (Indy Star, deprecated)
- Sewage discharge searchable database (deprecated)
- Thesis/professional project (PDF)