New investigative reports on the Web

Today's reading from and about investigative reporters:

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• New York Times: Radiation Worries for Children in Dentists' Chairs
• Guardian: Analysing data is the future for journalists, says Tim Berners-Lee
• Green Bay Press-Gazette: If city salaries are frozen, why are employees getting paid more?
• Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting: Incoming speaker of the Maine House inflated costs for goods paid for by Medicare
• Washington Post: The hidden life of guns (this is the home page for a multi-part investigation, starting with the guns that killed two police officers)
• Sunlight Foundation: Help identify a Super PAC in your neighborhood
• Msnbc.com's Red Tape Chronicles: Hidden victims of the mortgage meltdown
• New York Times: The TimesOpen Hack Day is less than two weeks away.  Register now.
• Pro Publica: One 'Nightmare' Mortgage: Problems from Origination Through Foreclosure
• Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism: A Tribal Tragedy: High Native American suicide rates persist
• Texas Watchdog: In open records case, AG says Texas Windstorm Insurance Association must release information on Hurricane Ike settlement
• National Institute on Money in State Politics: $2 Billion and Counting: A Very Early Snapshot of 2010 Campaign Contributions
• Scripps: Serial killers: Investigation by news organization prompts police to investigate
• The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.) and AP: FBI investigating former Alabama trooper for another killing
• McClatchy newspapers: A whistleblower speaks, describing fraud of AID
• Wall Street Journal, from U.S. Department of Energy: Nuclear-Weapons Drivers Drank on Job, Report Says
• WTVF-TV,  Nashville, Tenn.: Anti-Government Movement Discovered in Middle Tennessee (re: so-called Sovereigns)
• Center for Public Integrity: Reform Reading: Republicans Order Up Watchdog Reports on Consumer Bureau
• Pro Publica and Boston Globe: Massachusetts becomes first state to post details of payments to doctors by drug and device companies
• California Watch video: Interview with investigative reporter Chase Davis on covering money in politics
• Anchorage Daily News: Former aide in Abramoff lobbying scandal gets jail time, but only on weekends

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