anchor.diff:      <a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/donate?destination=radio-archives/episode/405/inside-job">Audio</a> |
       <a href="http://www.propublica.org/feature/all-the-magnetar-trade-how-one-hedge-fund-helped-keep-the-housing-bubble">Article</a> |
       <a href="http://www.propublica.org/documents/item/e-mails-between-magnetar-and-ischus">Emails</a> |
  -    <a href="http://www.propublica.org/documents/item/magnetars-responses-to-our-questions">Response
  +    <a href="http://www.propublica.org/documents/item/magnetars-responses-to-our-questions">Response</a>
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positive.code:                   <i><a href="http://postsomerville.com/">Post Somerville</a></i> covers local politics in Somerville, MA. It is a labor of love, run by volunteers. They wanted to post municipal campaign finance records for their readers to examine. MuckRock, an innovative little shop will file freedom of information requests on behalf of interested individuals (or organizations). MuckRock helped <i>Post Somerville</i> acquire the records from the City Clerk, but faced with copying charges estimated at $100, the bloggers were not thrilled about paying out of their own pockets for the files. Instead they <a href="http://www.muckrock.com/blog/a-big-thank-you-and-a-small-milestone/">turned to Spot.us</a> to raise the copying fees from their readership. Close to two dozen readers contributed to the copying expenses.<br />
                    <a href="http://www.muckrock.com/foi/view/somerville-ma/2010-campaign-finance-reports/79/#tabs-request">Request</a> | <a href="http://www.muckrock.com/foi/view/somerville-ma/2010-campaign-finance-reports/79/">Campaign Finance Filings</a>
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        <i>Minnesota Public Radio</i>, October 25, 2010 &mdash;
  
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      A routine audit of Los Angeles County's <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-dcfs-chief-20101214%2C0%2C2546562.story">troubled</a> Department of Children and Family Services found over a thousand phones activated and incurring service charges but not in use by agency personnel, while individual staffers racked up thousands of dollars in personal long distance charges. In addition to reporting on on the audit, <i>LA Times</i> shared the audit itself with readers.<br />
      <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-1222-dcfs-cell-phones-20101222,0,7191601.story">Article</a> | <a href="http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22840-audit-of-dcfs-cell-phone-use.html">Audit</a>
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        <i>Boston Globe</i>, November 18, 2010 &mdash;
        <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/11/18/report_blasts_pervasive_fraud_in_hiring_at_probation_department/"><u>Pervasive Fraud in Probation Department Hiring</u></a></b><br />
       In May of 2010, <i>Boston Globe</i> reporters took an extensive look at <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/05/23/at_the_probation_department_patronage_is_job_one/">accusations of patronage</a> in Massachusetts' Probation Department, prompting the state's high court to <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/05/25/probation_commissioner_suspended/">appoint an independant counsel</a> to investigate the agency's hiring practices and other allegations. The <i>Globe</i> thoroughly annotated that <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/specials/spotlight/probation/ware_report/">337 page report</a> for readers. <br />
       <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/05/23/at_the_probation_department_patronage_is_job_one/">Accusations</a> | <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/05/25/probation_commissioner_suspended/">Counsel Appointment</a> | <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/specials/spotlight/probation/ware_report/">Counsel Report</a>
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