@geoffhing

Data Reporter, @MarshallProj. Previously @azcentral, @apmreports, @nprviz, @citybureau, @chicagoreporter, @chitribgraphics PGP: https://xitter.cf/t.co/nCxgMvVlEi.

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Anna Flagg@AnnaFlagg21 Oct 2024
Research shows the more times you hear a statement, the more likely you are to believe it. We analyzed >12,000 of Trump’s immigration statements & found his most repeated claims, some of which he's made >500 times. All false. Here they are, fact-checked: themarshallproject.org/2024/…
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@geoffhing analyzed years of county finance data & found jails paid for additional charges for things such as COVID-19 tests and sensors designed to improve health monitoring, or for lab tests & prescription drugs when those costs were excluded/or exceeded a threshold.
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I was at City College Tuesday night, reporting for the @nytimes Two sets of protesters were arrested that night. The first set was a crowd outside City College’s locked gates. NYPD arrested this group on two separate occasions that evening at different locations. timeline/🧵
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Just obtained video showing police remove a woman’s hijab at ASU. Legal sources tell @ABC15 that four women had this happen. It’s another constitutional issue from this weekend's protests. *This is a screenshot. Video posted in next tweet*
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Geoff Hing retweeted
The Appeal@theappeal17 Apr 2024
NEW: The Appeal has published the first national database of prison commissary prices. The project covers 46 states, revealing an exploitative system that forces incarcerated people to pay up to 5x the outside price for some items. theappeal.org/locked-in-pric…

Locked In, Priced Out: How Prison Commissary Price-Gouging Preys on the Incarcerated

The Appeal's 9-month investigation uncovered prison commissaries’ exploitative, inconsistent systems with inside prices up to five times higher than in the community and markups as high as 600...

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Great to see the excellent journalism of esteemed colleagues @matt_kiefer @taylormooresays @AngelaTCR @MichaelJLiptrot and more on the cover of the Sunday @Suntimes
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Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb has been confiscating money from people incarcerated in his jail and using it to buy guns (which, of course, he loves). azluminaria.org/2023/09/29/p…

Pinal Sheriff Mark Lamb’s office spent $200K on guns and ammo from an ‘inmate welfare' fund - AZ...

The office of Pinal County Sheriff and US Senate candidate from Arizona Mark Lamb spent money meant for inmate welfare on guns and ammunition

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Does anyone know of national publications that take pitches for first-person writing about being unhoused (and pay the writers)?
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Yesterday we reported how a state board had denied nearly two-thirds of medical release requests from dying and disabled Illinois prisoners who met the criteria under the law to get out. @GovPritzker told reporters today there was nothing wrong with that injusticewatch.org/news/pris…
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June sees second-highest number of metro Phoenix eviction filings in 15 years azcentral.com/story/news/loc… via @azcentral

June sees second-highest number of metro Phoenix eviction filings in 15 years

Metro Phoenix eviction filings in June hit the second-highest monthly total since September 2008, the middle of the Great Recession.

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PHX, I need your help: Here's a summary of how the city says they plan to mitigate heat this summer. But what about follow through? How are they doing? Is it working? As I report it out & collect data, share with me your experiences and anecdotes. azcentral.com/story/news/loc…

It's hot in the Valley. Here's how Phoenix plans to deal with heat this summer

Phoenix's heat office outlined 31 ways to provide relief from heat. The tactics target renters, kids, low-income people and unhoused individuals.

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As the world shifts to solar, wind and nuclear energy, it's so important for journalists to ask where these projects are being built and why. And with whose permission? middleeasteye.net/news/syria…

Israeli police violently crack down on Syrian Druze protesting Golan Heights wind farm

Authorities fire tear gas and water cannons, as Druze community announce general strike over 'criminal' project built on their agricultural land

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What's next in the ongoing Justice Department probe…. Phoenix has provided more than 80,000 documents to the department and coordinated at least 150 interviews for the investigation, according to city documents. azcentral.com/story/news/loc… via @azcentral

First Minneapolis, then Phoenix? What's next in the ongoing Justice Department probe

The Justice Department launched an investigation into the Phoenix police in August 2021. Two years later, the city is still waiting for a report.

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An examination of pay at the Chicago Tribune undertaken by the guild uncovered a troubling but sadly unsurprising truth: The Chicago Tribune regularly pays women and people of color less than men and white people. Here's what we found: chicagotribuneguild.com/pays…

Pay study — Chicago Tribune Guild

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It’s Day 7 of our strike and we’re going strong! We’re on a ULP strike because we need @Insider to remedy its unfair labor practices and settle a fair contract.
A group photo of people walking with picket signs on a sunny day in the city. On the far right a person holds a sign reading "OUR UNION MAKES US STRONG!" in all caps, the center person holds a sign with a blue fist inflame and reads "INSIDER UNION" in all caps, in the far right two signs are being held that read "INSIDER UNION is on STRIKE. DON'T READ OUR STORIES UNTIL WORKERS GET A FAIR DEAL." and "NO PAGE VIEWS WITHOUT HEALTHY WORKERS"

ALT A group photo of people walking with picket signs on a sunny day in the city. On the far right a person holds a sign reading "OUR UNION MAKES US STRONG!" in all caps, the center person holds a sign with a blue fist inflame and reads "INSIDER UNION" in all caps, in the far right two signs are being held that read "INSIDER UNION is on STRIKE. DON'T READ OUR STORIES UNTIL WORKERS GET A FAIR DEAL." and "NO PAGE VIEWS WITHOUT HEALTHY WORKERS"

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Today, our bargaining committee sent two letters to groups with meaningful influence on Insider: Axel Springer and KKR. We asked them to encourage Insider to give us reasonable counters, a key move toward ending our ULP strike. Here are the letters and their key points: (1/6)
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