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Shaena Montanari and Natalie Walters Howard Center for Investigative Journalism Winter in the Columbia River Gorge is wet and freezing, a life-threatening situation for the area’s homeless residents even without a pandemic. Darcy Long-Curtiss understands that better than most. The areas regular homeless shelter, like many around Oregon, was closed because of COVID-19. The federal aid money meant to help protect homeless people from the pandemic came late and with confusing restrictions. By ...

December 17, 2020 at 9:50am While working on a news story in Liberty City, during the heart of the pandemic, journalism student Racquel Lewis was sprayed down from head to toe in disinfectant before being allowed to enter the residence of the woman she was interviewing.  The unusual experience took place as she covered a story for FIU’s Department of Journalism + Media’s South Florida Media Network (SFMN), an award-winning student-run online multimedia platform with bureaus in New York Cit...

Communities struggle to make best use of COVID homeless aid Funding delays and confusing spending restrictions have hampered communities’ abilities to capitalize on the largest influx of homeless aid in American history. By Howard Center for Investigative Journalism Winter in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge is wet and freezing, a life-threatening situation for the area’s homeless residents even without a pandemic. Darcy Long-Curtiss understands that better than most. The shelter that norm...

Social distancing and other contagion protocols are difficult behind bars, but an investigation by WFAA and The Marshall Project showed that the spread of COVID-19 behind bars was also due to the Texas Department of Criminal Justices lackluster response, potentially exacerbating outbreaks and putting surrounding communities at risk. The agencys website lists the prisoners who have died from the virus. Below is a list of those people, including Campos.  Among the list are four people who offici...

resolution. >> did you feel that it gave iraq a realistic possibility of meeting the requirements of the resolution? >> yes, except that it was very hard for them to declare any weapons when they didnt have any. they, but we didnt know didnt have any. i mean, i ask the question because we have had at least one witness that has said that actually the way it was drafted was actually as a trigger for military action, but thats evidently not what you felt at the time from what you have jus...

>> they control so much. my big concern is that citizens united where there are five of them wanted supreme court justices said that the corporation is like a person and they can dump on limited amounts of money into a local school board election if it will give them some sort of a contract. i feel that congress serves in the upper echelon or the upper east -- the upper elite they have the money in the can do all the talking. we tried to pass some disclosure through the house and nothi...