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Lexington Herald-Leader’s investigative series on downtown projects delivered, and it’s generating such a reaction in the community that the city council is expected to question the finances.
Lexington lost more than $1 million on 3 downtown condo projects. What went wrong.
Story By Beth Musgrave | Video By Marcus Dorsey | Lexington Herald Leader
City contract: City paid off developer’s $600,000 loan. Then it gave her company a million-dollar contract.
Redactions: City spent millions to renovate old courthouse. Why do its finances remain secret?
The Wichita Eagle dug into problems with the city’s only drinking water plant, which is in such perilous shape that duct tape has been used for repairs. That project made the plant a last-minute issue in the city’s mayoral primary.
Wichita’s water plant: ‘Every hour that thing is running, it could fail’
Story By Chance Swaim | Video By Travis Heying | The Wichita Eagle
The Idaho Statesman team found the city had annexed a neighborhood and failed to grant its residents voting rights.
Boise annexed this neighborhood in 2014. It was left off the voter rolls for five years.
Story By Hayley Harding | Idaho Statesman
McClatchy’s Washington bureau has forced major national news organizations to chase us and cite us on a story of local relevance and national impact — is Mike Pompeo on the way out?
Potential candidates for Kansas Senate seat reveal phone calls with Pompeo
Story By Bryan Lowry | McClatchy DC | Video By Jill Toyoshiba | The Kansas City Star
Two big audio projects launched in July. A podcast series produced by McClatchy Studios and Miami Herald and a Monday-Friday sports podcast by The Kansas City Star.
Smoked: A tale of weed, speed and the road ahead
Miami Herald and McClatchy Studios
SportsBeat KC: Monday-Friday Sports podcast — a first for McClatchy
The Kansas City Star
In Opinion/Editorial, two editorials earned more than 100,000 readers each — an audience seen only one other time outside Kansas City’s Editorial pages.
Are you OK with a racist president, Republicans?
Charlotte Observer
As Trump’s reliable sycophant, Rubio drags us further into the president’s swamp
Miami Herald
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