Uplink will do an overview of 1994's CAR stories in the February issue, but here's a sample of articles we've recently received:
- A three-part series on suicide by (Tacoma, WA) News Tribune, using Washington state death records. - A three-part series on elevator safety in Massachusetts by The Boston Globe, using elevator inspection records. - An investigation by New York Newsday into parking tickets that found the city owed $18 million to more than 600,000 motorists, using a parking ticket database. (See parking ticket story on page two.) - An eight-part series on crime and punishment by The Miami Herald, using FBI Uniform Crime Report data, criminal justice databases, and 87 reports from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics. - A four-part series, "Starving the Wife," by The Charlotte Observer on how divorcing spouses take advantage of flawed state laws and poorly monitored courts. The Observer used court records to document long delays in cases. - An investigation by the The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, OH, into thousands of unnecessary C-sections, using Ohio birth records.
Copies of these articles can be obtained through NICAR by calling 314-882-2042.