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The Good News From Our Citizen Journalism Project

Adam Clark Estes | Posted 11.05.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: Future of Journalism, Claims Denials, Rape, Insurance, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Citizen Journalism, Denial of Coverage, Health Care, Healthcare, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Eyes & Ears News
Adam Clark Estes

One of the big questions about the future of journalism is whether the Internet can foster a new alliance between professional reporters and interested citizens. We're seeing signs that the answer is yes.

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Food Lobby Mobilizes, As Soda Tax Bubbles Up

HuffPost Investigative Fund | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Funds, Fast Food, Congress, Nhma, Snapple, Senate Finance Committee, Lobbyists, Agriculture, American Beverage Association, Soda Tax, Food Loby, Funding, Hispanics, National Corn Growers Association, Health Insurance, Policy, National Hispanic Medical Associaiton, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Coca-Cola, Soft Drinks, Chuck Grassley, Dr. Pepper, Food Politics, Health Care, Beverage Tax, Aba, Lobbying, Corn, Americans Against Food Taxes, Supermarkets, Coke, Alex Padilla, Pepsi, Corn Syrup, Nutrition, Grocery Stores, Health Care Reform, Max Baucus, Green News

By Christine Spolar, Huffington Post Investigative Fund and Joseph Eaton, Staff Writer, Center for Public Integrity Washington lobbyists have been en...

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Help Us Investigate: Bank Failures

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Adam Clark Estes | Posted 11.04.2009 | Home

Read More: Cds, Capitalsouth, First-Citizens Bank, Fdic, Citizen Journalism, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Home News

Did your bank fail? Has that had an impact on you - whether in interest rates or something else? Do you work for a faltering or collapsed bank? Pro...

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When Banks Fail, So Do Those Promised CD Rates

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Keith Epstein | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Capitalsouth, Fdic, CD Rates, Banks, Normal Jean Scott, Fixed-Term CDs, Iberiabank, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, American Bankers Association, Business News

Norma Jean Scott, a 63-year-old Alabama retiree, thought she was being prudent three years ago when she stashed her $100,000 retirement nest egg in a ...

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Help Us Investigate Health Information Technology

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Adam Clark Estes | Posted 11.03.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: Electronic Health Records, Citizen Journalism, Health IT, Health Information Technology, Health Care, Eyes, Digital Health Records, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Eyes & Ears News

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund will be covering the progress of health information technology reform. Are you a patient who has begun tracking...

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Government Pushes To Create A New Health Internet

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Fred Schulte | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Data-Sharing Health, Medical Records, Aneesh Chopra, Internet, Digital Records, Medical Records Online, Health Internet, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Politics News

Hoping to provide the backbone for a grand plan to put the nation's medical records online, federal officials have been quietly retooling an obscure g...

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Under Attack, Credit Raters Turn to the First Amendment

HuffPost Investigative Fund | By Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Market, Standard, Bill of Rights, Morgan Stanley, Moodys, Egan Jones, Free Speech, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Business News

Editor's note: This is the first of three articles by the Investigative Fund on the credit rating companies. To help with the investigation, sign up ...

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Help Us Investigate: Rating Agencies

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Adam Clark Estes | Posted 11.04.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: Fitch Ratings, Standard, Citizen Journalism, Standard and Poor, Financial Crisis, Credit Rating Agencies, Moody's, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Eyes & Ears News

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund continuing to report on the causes and consequences of the financial crisis. Ben Protess, who published the fir...

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Major Gaps In Oversight Of Human Medical Research

HuffPost Investigative Fund | By Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Columbia Heart Study, Jerry Menikoff, Columbia University Medical Center, Gene Therapy, Human Test Subjects, Fda, Hetastarch, New York News, Cardiac Surgery, Hextend, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Columbia University Heart Study, Human Research Protections, Politics News

Ten years ago, an 18-year-old student named Jesse Gelsinger died during a medical research trial involving gene therapy at the University of Pennsylva...

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Rape Victim's Choice: Risk AIDS or Health Insurance?

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Rape, Rape Pre-Existing Condition, Insurance Coverage Denial to Victims of Rape, Health-Care-Companies, Health Care, Sexual Assault, Pre-Existing-Condition, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Business News

Christina Turner feared that she might have been sexually assaulted after two men slipped her a knockout drug. She thought she was taking proper preca...

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Federal Digital Health Stimulus Program's Rising Costs: Fuzzy Math?

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Fred Schulte | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Stimulus, Obama Health Stimulus, Digital Health Stimulus, Digital Health Stimulus Costs, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Politics News

Creating digital medical records for every American within the next five years - a key provision of President Obama's stimulus package -- could cost m...

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In Reversal Of Bush Policy, EPA Launches New Study of Atrazine's Health Effects

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green

Read More: EPA Drinking Water, Atrazine, Barbara Boxer, Atrazine Water, Epa, Environment, Drinking Water, EPA Atrazine, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Green News

The Environmental Protection Agency today reversed its stance on the potential hazards of atrazine, one of the most commonly-used herbicides in the co...

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Top Derivatives Regulator: "We Haven't Filled The Gaps" (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Derivatives, Office of Thrift Supervision, Sarbanes-Oxley, Gary Gensler, Cftc, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Business News

Gary Gensler, the top regulator of the commodities markets, sees the U.S. financial system still "vulnerable" to the murky world of privately negotiat...

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Government Orders Columbia to Tell Patients 'True Nature' of Drug Study

Special To Huffington Post Investigative Fund |
Jeanne Lenzer and Shannon Brownlee | Posted 11.04.2009 | New York

Read More: Columbia Heart Study, Columbia University Medical Center, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Columbia University Heart Study, New York News

NEW YORK -- The man who would be known as Patient No. 1 emerged from routine open-heart surgery at Columbia University Medical Center in stable condit...

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Home Loans Brokered By Nonprofits Helped Fuel The Housing Crisis

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Jeff Horwitz and Dave Jamieson | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Federal Housing Administration, Fha, Ann Ashburn, Beazer Homes, Ameridream, Nonprofits, Home Loans, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Business News

Before the housing boom got underway in the late 1990s, a California nonprofit group hatched an idea to help families who qualified for government-bac...

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How Dick Morris Is Making Seniors Feverish About Health Care Reform (VIDEO)

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Video, Health Care Attack Ads, Health Care, Dick Morris, Dick Morris Attack Ads, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Politics News

Standing in a medical exam room, a neurosurgeon in a white lab coat stares solemnly into the camera and warns that President Obama's health care plan ...

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In Health Care, Number Of Claims Denied Remains A Mystery

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Care, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Politics News

Are health insurance companies generally being fair and honest when they reject claims from policy holders? That would seem to be an important ques...

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Help Us Investigate How Often Health Insurers Deny Claims

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Adam Clark Estes | Posted 11.18.2009 | Eyes & Ears

Read More: House of Representatives, Unitedhealth, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Health Insurance Industry, Health Insurance, Cigna, Aetna, Humana, Health Care Reform, Health Care, America's Health Insurance Plans, Healthcare, California Nurses Association, Eyes & Ears News

Amid all the loud arguments about the proper role for government and private companies in American health care, one point often seems lost: Exactly ho...

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Business Groups Step Up Campaign To Block Obama's Consumer Agency

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Christine Spolar | Posted 11.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Consumer Reform, Mortgages, Consumer Agency, Federal Reserve, Consumer Protection Agency, Banks, Reform, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Business News

A new federal consumer protection agency is emerging as the centerpiece of the Obama administration's financial reforms, prompting banking companies a...

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Energy Projects Lag In Stimulus Spending

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Gary Cohn | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Stimulus Spending, Energy Projects, Stimulus, Stimulus Projects, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Green News

President Obama has pledged to transform the nation's energy policy and has made renewable energy a cornerstone of the $787 billion stimulus package, ...

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Robocalls Banned By Government? Not So Much

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Investigative Fund, Fcc, Donotcall.gov, Courtesy Calls, Consumer, Newspaper Association of America, Election Calls, Campaigns, Robocalls, Washington D.C., Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Robocall Rules, Political Campaigns, Consumer Bankers Association, Regulation, Do Not Call List, Phone Calls, Mortgage Bankers Association, Campaign Calls, Federal Communications Commission, Telephone, Ftc, Consumers, Politics News

It's dinnertime, the phone rings and it might be someone important. Instead, you hear a recorded voice: "Congratulations! You've been pre-approved for...

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A Crowd's Take on the Health Care Industry's Revolving Door

Adam Clark Estes | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate, Congress, Lobbying, House of Representatives, Lobbyists, Health Care Reform, Revolving Door, Max Baucus, Health Care, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Politics News
Adam Clark Estes

Earlier this summer, The Washington Post published an eye-catching analysis of the revolving door between Congress and the health industry. The newspaper estimated that at least 350 former staffers and members of Congress are now lobbying their former Capitol Hill colleagues on legislation to change the health care system.

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Geithner Moves To New Home, But Some Question His Temporary Digs

Special to the Huffington Post Investigative Fund | By Philip Shenon | Posted 11.04.2009 | Home

Read More: Geithner, Geithner House, Geithner Moving, Daniel Zelikow, Geithner Permanent Home, Geithner Daniel Zelikow, Geithner Home, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Home News

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has finally moved into a permanent home after eight months in Washington, leaving behind some lingering questions ...

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Water Utilities Lack Proper Filters For Weed-Killer

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Danielle Ivory | Posted 11.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Iowa, Herbicide, Indiana, Epa, Ohio, Utilities, Filtration, Lawsuit, Syngenta, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Atrazine, Filter, Kansas, Weed-Killer, Tillery, Water, Missouri, Illinois, Drinking Water, Green News

Results from a federal drinking water monitoring program show that many public water companies are ineffective at removing a widely used weed-killer f...

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From Bank of America, Two Different Stories About Tracking Bailout Funds

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Citi, Treasury Department, Citigroup, Finance, Bank of America and Treasury Department, Banks, SEC and Bank of America, Wall Street Bailout, Bailout, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Ken Lewis, Bank of America Statement, Bofa, House Financial Services Committee, Business News

Is Bank of America, the nation's largest bank, tracking how it spends $45 billion in taxpayer funds? That depends on which Bank of America statement ...

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