Illegal short-term rentals hide in plain sight on platforms like Booking.com and Hotels.com, making it hard to distinguish legitimate rentals from ones that skirt the law: propublica.org/article/is-my-…

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has rejected Oklahoma's attempt to claw back millions in Title X family planning funds that it lost because it refused to comply with program rules requiring clinics to offer information about abortion to patients who request it politico.com/news/2024/09/0…

Wowser.

New: In a call with donors, First Liberty Institute's Kelly Shackelford read the supportive email he said came from Thomas. The leader of the religious-rights group also labeled Justice Elena Kagan “treasonous” for backing a stronger ethics code. propub.li/4cUYXtN

SCOOP: Ginni Thomas Privately Praised Group Working Against Supreme Court Reform: “Thank You So, So, So Much” propublica.org/article/ginni-… Andy Kroll Nick Surgey w/ Documented

Shackelford accused ProPublica of being part of a campaign to “delegitimize or get rid of the court.” He said the ethics lapses unearthed by ProPublica’s reporting were “false” and “baseless,” even though they helped spark creation of a new ethics code. propublica.org/article/ginni-…

I am very intrigued by Jeff Asher new Real Time Crime Index, which seeks to fill major lags in national data by tracking a representative sample of 300+ agencies. FBI is notoriously slow on national numbers. semafor.com/article/09/04/…

Proud to have partnered with you Rose Lundy The Maine Monitor! (And kudos to former LRN partner Samantha Hogan too!)

“Rachel told me she hoped to have the privilege of having all three of her children bury her someday. It breaks my heart to know that instead she buried her son today, on Day 332.” ⁦⁦Elizabeth Bernstein⁩ wsj.com/us-news/on-day…

In Times Union op-ed, Project Guardianship and Jessica Scarcella-Spanton call for $15M in sustained guardianship funding, citing ProPublica reporting: “The story echoed what many of us in the guardianship world have known all along: We need all hands on deck.” timesunion.com/opinion/articl…

IMPACT: The U.S. Department of Justice Reaches Agreement With Wisconsin Sheriff’s Office to Improve Services for People Who Don’t Speak English propublica.org/article/dane-c… Melissa Sanchez maryam مريم jameel

Very exciting news! We're hiring a senior editor to lead our new "sustainability desk" to work with former Local Reporting Network partners on future stories. Check it out: grnh.se/6d48800b6us

Senators push $15M bill to study birth defects in children of veterans exposed to toxic chemicals stripes.com/veterans/2024-…

The agreement resolves a civil rights inquiry prompted by ProPublica reporting on how the sheriff’s office had mistakenly blamed an immigrant worker for his son’s death on a dairy farm. We revealed a language barrier had led to the misunderstanding. propublica.org/article/dane-c…

The teenager accused of killing four people at Apalachee High School in Barrow County was previously investigated for threats about a shooting when he was 13. His dad told authorities he had hunting guns in the house but that his son didn’t have “unsupervised access” to them.

Same thing happened in Arizona. propublica.org/article/arizon…

IMPACT: A judge ordered a major NYC guardian to return $ it took from a ward featured in our reporting while providing “few services, if any.” She says guardianship needs an overhaul: “maybe somewhere, down the line, somebody will do something about it.” propublica.org/article/new-yo…

Deloitte’s estimates show that 35 change requests for Georgia’s eligibility system in 2023 would take more than 104,000 hours of work. - Samantha Liss & Rachana D. Pradhan look at the costs to fix buggy Medicaid systems kffhealthnews.org/MTkwNTQ2OA via @kffhealthnews

Congrats ⁦Amy Pyle! Looking forward to partnering with you there!⁩ Honolulu Civil Beat announces Amy Pyle as new executive editor-in-chief editorandpublisher.com/stories/honolu…

Great news for Texas!