Voting is Your POWER
Voting is Your POWERTHOUSANDS of people gathered along 8 miles of a major road in Columbus, Ohio to protest the Nazi regime
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2025/08/09/trump-protest-high-street-downtown-columbus-ohio/85590841007/
Voting is Your POWERAfter Oregon auditors flagged anonymous preschools for wasteful spending, reporter Joanna Hou matched the financials of one school to a provider owned by the official who now oversees one county’s universal preschool program
https://www.wweek.com/news/schools/2025/07/29/preschool-for-alls-director-owns-a-provider-that-collected-833494-from-the-state-to-serve-just-nine-children-2/
Voting is Your POWERTexas’s top utility officials sued the state’s attorney general to block reporters from access to data and records related to bitcoin mining, Keaton Peters and Simone Del Rosario reported. The officials claimed that public disclosure could lead to terrorism
https://san.com/cc/exclusive-san-reporters-inquiry-into-texas-bitcoin-mines-triggers-lawsuit/
Voting is Your POWERWashington’s largest state agency laid off an independent investigator shortly after she delivered a report noting that people under state care in civil commitment were denied critical medical care
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/mcneil-island-ceo-watchdog-removed-after-critical-internal-report/
Voting is Your POWERAfter a murder-suicide in Maine, reporter John Terhune obtained an improperly redacted report about the incident, which showed how, in cases where there is no one to prosecute, police are reluctant to spend investigatory resources on answers.
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/08/01/murder-suicides-arent-investigated-like-other-homicides-in-maine-is-that-a-problem/
Voting is Your POWERPennsylvania’s unregulated hemp stores are booming, but reporters Max Marin and Ryan W. Briggs tested the products and found they are rife with toxic and illicit chemicals.
Almost every sample they tested was over the legal potency or contained mold or pesticides
https://www.inquirer.com/news/a/pennsylvania-smoke-shops-weed-toxic-chemicals-mold-20250729.html
Voting is Your POWERBefore a woman died in a North Carolina jail, guards failed to perform minimum checks more than a dozen times, which are meant to prevent suicides, reporter Dan Kane found after obtaining state inspection records.
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article311504377.html
Voting is Your POWERIn Arizona’s facility for people with severe mental illness who have been found guilty of a crime, patients ordered by a judge there for treatment often struggle to get accommodations for autism, an experience they and loved ones fear is worsening their condition
https://www.kjzz.org/the-show/2025-02-18/overwhelmed
Voting is Your POWERMinnesota’s welfare agency shut down a $100 million housing program and suspended payments to nearly 80 vendors after a team of reporters uncovered evidence of forged signatures, phantom services and millions in Medicaid billing from providers, who were supposed to be helping elderly or disabled people
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/investigations/kare-11-investigates-minnesota-moves-to-shut-down-housing-stabilization-services-program-amid-widespread-fraud/89-62a186ad-9a48-474a-91b0-576cd54ec021
Voting is Your POWERIn Idaho, parents of students with disabilities who were blocked from seeking educational services for their children increasingly resorted to an extreme — but often successful — tactic: accusing districts of violating federal law
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/education/article311491497.html