A reminder: This surreal moment in American history only came about because of dogged investigative reporting by Michael Rothfeld and Joe Palazzolo -- plus Rebecca Ballhaus Rebecca Davis O'Brien Nicole Hong and more.

A really great and compassionate story from Jacob Shamsian ⚖️, that's also a reminder that the stakes can be incredibly high for many, many, many regular New Yorkers who pass through this courthouse each day:

Susy Carroll was a brilliant investigative reporter, a beloved member of the Daily Wildcat family, the first reporter I was ever desperate to match. She was my friend and I'm shattered that she's gone. If you can, help her family during this painful time.
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The end of a remarkable ethics case against a CA judge 'represents a stark contrast from the formal answers Kreis previously filed to the charges leveled against him, in which he denied nearly all of them and maintained he had not done anything unethical.'
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Really cool job: The Washington Post is starting a narrative investigations team. Storytelling and accountability reporting do not have to be kept separate! washpost.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/washingtonpost…

Draymond Green is getting dragged for complaining about fines for hitting other players...but he also cites 'the way we're taxed.'

And he's right! Our leaked IRS records show millionaire players pay higher income tax rates than billionaire team owners.
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'At one point during the interrogation, the investigators even threatened to have his pet Labrador Retriever, Margosha, euthanized as a stray, and brought the dog into the room so he could say goodbye.

'OK? Your dog’s now gone, forget about it.''

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This is what local investigative journalism is all about. The Baltimore Banner had to sue the state medical examiner to get records that helped reveal the city has an overdose death rate nearly double that of any other large city.
Amazing work by this team.
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'It’s easy to add two thousand seats when they’re entirely theoretical.'

At this point, it's a safe bet that all of Oakland is rooting for John Fisher to fail more spectacularly than he ever has before. He's off to one heck of a start!

newyorker.com/sports/sportin…

'The problem: No one would sell.'

A very California story about a frustrating bubble of beautiful outdoor space, by the great jessica garrison:

latimes.com/california/sto…

Excited to join a pair of education reporting panels at IRE and NICAR next month, with Marina Villeneuve, Jakob McWhinney and Cal Poly's Billie-Jo Grant.

We'll talk public records requests, sensitive interviews, common hurdles + much more.

Bring yer questions!schedules.ire.org/ire-2024/index…

New: Police in Austin and San Francisco are banned from using facial recognition, but some officers have repeatedly asked police in neighboring towns to run facial recognition searches for them, according to documents obtained by the Washington Post wapo.st/3V6hP3l

The gap at the very upper tier of American CEO compensation — where the top two make more than double the vast majority of the rest of the top 25 — is mind boggling:

wsj.com/business/highe…

Larry Ellison dreams of revolutionizing modern medicine, but American veterans are dying on Oracle’s watch as problems with a computer system pile up at the VA.

From Blake Dodge and me:

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3M knowingly pushed a dangerous chemical for decades. Finding someone who DIDN'T have it in their blood became the challenge

This is a portrait of what it's like to discover a terrible secret, what it's like to keep it. A cover-up thru the eyes of those involved in the covering

For years, I wished someone inside 3M could give me insight into the company’s decision to keep making and selling “forever chemicals” even though they were accumulating in people. Then I met Kris Hansen... propublica.org/article/3m-for…

For the second time in 2 years, Rosemead High School students are protesting the El Monte Union HSD's inaction in response to my reporting on educator sexual abuse. The students want an anti-grooming curriculum.
Now, they plan to 'reclaim the 'Predators' Playground''businessinsider.com/40-years-of-se…

.Marshall Allen gave a lot of great advice, and most of it had nothing to do with journalism. Kind, gracious, thoughtful and the definition of empathetic. I’m so terribly saddened by this, and sending whatever support we can to his family. gofundme.com/f/support-for-…