LEXINGTON, Ky. — A census taker found hanging from a tree had named his son as his life insurance beneficiary, and investigators are looking int...
Steve Marmel | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
Does Michele Bachmann get to continue walking around like she's not complicit in the death of census worker Bill Sparkman? Or do we finally start holding people accountable for their words and actions?
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and JEFFREY McMURRAY | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Investigators probing the death of a Kentucky census worker found hanging from a tree with the word "fed" scrawled on his chest inc...
AP | JEFFREY McMURRAY | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics
BIG CREEK, Ky. — The manager of a part-time census taker who died under mysterious circumstances in southeastern Kentucky says other workers are...
AP | JEFFREY McMURRAY | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics
LONDON, Ky. — Josh Sparkman lost the only family he ever really had when his census worker father was found hanging from a tree in rural Kentuck...
Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
The U.S. government began its life back in 1791 by shafting the Appalachian area. People have not forgotten it, perhaps because it has yet to stop happening.
AP | ROGER ALFORD and JEFFREY McMURRAY | Posted 09.26.2009 | Home
BIG CREEK, Ky. — A part-time census worker found hanging in a rural Kentucky cemetery was naked, gagged and had his hands and feet bound with du...
Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
Sparkman's workaday life and violent death -- whatever the cause and whoever the culprit -- highlight the precarious struggles of the white working class and the brewing storm surrounding the 2010 Census.
AP | ROGER ALFORD and JEFFREY McMURRAY | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
BIG CREEK, Ky. — A part-time census worker found hanging in a rural Kentucky cemetery was naked, gagged and had his hands and feet bound with du...
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
According to reports, the body of a part-time Census field worker had the word "fed" scrawled across his chest. Suddenly, big government is a big problem, and the "Feds" are to blame.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
Associated Press reporter Devlin Barrett was on MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow" show Wednesday night to discuss the shocking death of a census worker in Kentu...
Simon Rosenberg | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
Last night's reports of the murder of a US Census worker will bring national attention to the emerging politics of the Census count, something that we've long been worried about at NDN.
Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
William E. Sparkman Jr. was a 51-year-old single father who once battled Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma while he pursued his teaching degree, according to a Mar...
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and JEFFREY McMURRAY | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
MANCHESTER, Ky. — A U.S. Census worker found hanged from a tree near a Kentucky cemetery had the word "fed" scrawled on his chest, a law enforce...
AP | JEFFREY McMURRAY and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 11.13.2009 | Home