While Derek is away being blissfully happy, I’m going to fill in here at The Scoop. I’m Matt Waite, a reporter at the St. Petersburg Times and fellow Scoop devotee. I’ll start posting stories soon, but if you’ve got something you want to recommend, drop me a line at matt(dot)waite(at)gmail(dot)com.
Caught this on the radio yesterday: Marketplace and American Radio Works went back and looked at Congressional travel records and found that all the reporting done on the freebies has had an affect: Congress is sticking around Washington more, and taking fewer handout trips. The analysis was done by American RadioWorks with The Center for [...]
John Hill of the Sacramento Bee found that a $2.1 billion bond California voters approved to provide affordable housing hasn’t delivered. “With the pot more than half gone, a Bee investigation has found that what taxpayers are getting falls far short of those promises - a reality that takes on added importance as California officials [...]
Dunstan McNichol at the Newark Star-Ledger writes about how a state program to build new schools and real-estate speculators have taken a once stable neighborhood and turned it into a haven for squatters and drug dealers. Frustrated residents said they were offered too little for their houses and now they can’t get a similar house [...]
Jo Craven McGinty at the New York Times reported this weekend that hate crimes in the city are down 44 percent between 2000 and 2004. The crimes are broken down in graphics and maps. A member of New York’s hate crimes unit credits people “just behaving better” in the city in the wake of a [...]
