Sampling of articles:

Quantity of Care

• Prologue: A lost voice
• The O.R. Factory
• Swedish double-booked its surgeries, and the patients didn’t know
• Swedish Health’s ambitious Seattle plans involved a developer with a stake in their success
• Swedish CEO Tony Armada resigns in wake of Seattle Times investigation
• Ex-Swedish surgeon Johnny Delashaw has medical license suspended by Washington state
• Investigators find ‘numerous’ issues related to patient safety at Swedish’s Cherry Hill site
• More

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The Mobile Home Trap (Awards: Livingston, SABEW,  Loeb finalist)

• PART 1: How a Warren Buffett empire preys on the poor
• A look at Berkshire Hathaway’s response to mobile home investigation
• Buffett sticks up for mobile home business at shareholder meeting
• Buffett concedes default rate on mobile home loans may be much higher
• PART 2: Buffett’s mobile home business has most to gain from deregulation plan
• NYT editorial calls on Congress to protect mobile home buyers
• Part 3: Minorities exploited by Warren Buffett’s mobile-home empire
• Lawmakers call for federal investigation of Warren Buffett’s mobile-home business

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Bellevue football (Awards: APSE top 10)

• Bellevue High’s success aided by ‘diploma mill’
• Bellevue football coaches wooed middle school athletes
• Videos show controversial Bellevue football trainer
• Bellevue School District requests state probe of football program
• Bellevue football report: Coaches violated rules for years, district obstructed investigation

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Oso landslide (Awards: Pulitzer, IRE, Polk)

• Risk of slide ‘unforeseen’? Warnings go back decades
• State allowed logging on plateau above slope
• Logging OK’d in 2004 may have exceeded approved boundary
• State used outdated data to allow logging on slope
• Worried about possible deaths, county weighed buying out homes
• State lands chief breaks vow, takes timber-industry money 
• Feds keep popular campground open despite risk of devastating landslide
• Oso neighborhood never should have been built
• Interactive: Building toward disaster

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Other:

• With Ballmer’s aid, elite school pushed limits of prep-sports rules
• Sell Block, part 1: Broken prison labor program fails to keep promises, costs millions
• Sell Block, part 2: Recycling scheme lost state $1 million
• Sell Block, part 3: Why license plates have cost us so much

 

From AP:

• Lobbyists pampering lawmakers with free meals
• Some politicians use excess campaign cash for iPads, alcohol
• Lawmakers make taxpayers pay for dry cleaning, artwork
• Pensions, part 1: Late pay raises spike Washington pension benefits
• Pensions, part 2: Lavish Washington medical plan imperils budgets
• Pensions, part 3: Disabilities plague Washington retirees, even golfers
• Pensions, part 4: Fire, police officials get retire-rehire deals

• Tough ID laws could block thousands of 2012 votes
• AP source: John Edwards could be indicted within days
• Grand Jury Probes What John Edwards Knew About Spending
• Edwards’ Nonprofit Key to 2008 Campaign

• Diabetes now tops Vietnam veterans’ disability claims
• AP: Costs of US wars linger for over 100 years
• U.S. fails to address student visa abuses
• AP IMPACT: Many US bridges old, risky and rundown
• Some Medics Idled For 20 Minutes After Aurora Colo. Theater Massacre
• Blackwater mixes business glitz with military grit
• Mines fight safety violations, fines go unpaid
• AP Exclusive: Workers describe failures on oil rig
• Military school’s former leader may have faked service record
• AP IMPACT: Military files left unprotected online

Awards at AP: A Scripps Howard award for coverage of the Fort Hood massacre; a Polk award and a Grantham award for coverage of the Gulf oil spill; an APME award for multimedia coverage of the Great Recession; and an Edward R. Murrow award for an investigation into student visa abuses.