ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Last April, West Virginia awarded a nearly $10 million contract to a company called Student First Technologies to manage the state’s Hope Scholarship program, which gives families about $4,900 per child to spend … Read more
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. In December 1990, officials in the federal agency tasked with regulating offshore oil and gas drilling received a memo with a dire warning: America … Read more
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with The Connecticut Mirror. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. Reporting Highlights An Outlier: Connecticut allows towing companies to sell some people’s cars in just 15 days, one of the shortest windows in the … Read more