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by Doug Bock Clark A week and a half after last November’s vote, members of the Board of Elections in Surry County, North Carolina, gathered… Read »No accountability for election officials who refused to certify results
by Kristen Doerer for ProPublica Intuit, the Silicon Valley software giant behind TurboTax, doesn’t provide the only way to file your taxes electronically, but it… Read »How to file taxes for free without TurboTax
by Derek Willis Politicians haven’t stopped deleting some of their most cringeworthy tweets, but Politwoops, our project that has tracked and archived more than half… Read »After a decade of tracking politicians’ deleted tweets, Elon Musk disables Politwoops
by Sharon Lerner The Environmental Protection Agency recently gave a Chevron refinery the green light to create fuel from discarded plastics as part of a… Read »New EPA approved “climate-friendly” fuel comes with cancer risk
by Jessica Priest and Perla Trevizo This article is co-published with The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan local newsroom that informs and engages with Texans.… Read »Decades of mass shootings in Texas with no meaningful legislative response
by Kristen Doerer On Jan. 23, 2023, the IRS began accepting and processing returns for the 2022 tax year. That means that the window for… Read »When are taxes due?
by Megan Rose For 50 years, Roe v. Wade shut down the biggest ambitions of the anti-abortion movement. Last summer, the Supreme Court overturned that… Read »States abortion rights in 2023
by Richard A. Webster, Verite Nearly half of Louisiana sheriffs are in violation of a state law regulating the preservation and destruction of public records,… Read »Nearly half Sheriffs in Louisiana are violating public records laws
by Mike Reicher and Lulu Ramadan, The Seattle Times Washington education officials have launched an investigation into the state’s largest network of privately run schools… Read »Washington launches investigation of private special education schools
by Lisa Song As a climate reporter, I was well aware of the growing concern about the gas stoves in people’s homes leaking dangerous pollutants,… Read »Risks of gas stoves and appliances
