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
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
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
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- State used outdated data to allow logging on slope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
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.
