I am not one to seek simple causes.

History is the best guide to the future.

Cities vary widely in the use of DNA testing.

ABC forbids political activity by journalists.

Spring and summer in Pittsburgh mean outdoor festivals.

The Iraq war fueled distrust of the press from both sides.

Huguette Clark was an artist, a painter and doll collector.

America's schools and streets are safer than Americans know.

Polygraphs have sparked a fierce debate for at least a century.

I'm pretty much a documents reporter. I'm a public records geek.

I'm not a person who has people tell me things in parking garages.

The term 'triage' normally means deciding who gets attention first.

In Chicago, integrated neighborhoods do not stay integrated for long.

Subprime lending is growing faster in black areas than in white areas.

Jason McDermott can be the most ingratiating young man: a born politician.

Humidity notwithstanding, summer seems to bring out the best of Cincinnati.

With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire - they go in.

Companies are accustomed to dismissing employees for misuse of computers at work.

In Minneapolis, the overhead sky walks protect pedestrians from the winter cold and snow.

Community groups contend that door-to-door loan sales are often followed by foreclosures.

Both CNN and NPR prohibit political activity by all journalists, no matter their assignment.

Some employees are protected by union or personal contracts that limit reasons for dismissal.

In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.

Disclosure of private e-mails from government officials has been a legal issue in many states.

If he is convicted, Dr. Kevorkian says he will die a martyr's death by going on a hunger strike.

Cincinnatians support a symphony, an opera, a ballet, museums, many galleries and theater groups.

Huguette Clark has had her own tax liens - four times, the IRS has filed to collect taxes from her.

It's hard to say whether the general incidence of school violence of all types is increasing or not.

Jason McDermott's political career, however bogus, appears to have had an early and promising start.

A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years.

Though some student activists of the 1960s may have idolized Alinsky, he didn't particularly idolize them.

Every scandal has its road kill: the pedestrians who stumble into the headlights of the oncoming 18-wheeler.

'John Doe' is typically used in a warrant when the accused is known by an alias or by a physical description.

Wal-Mart has always paid low wages, or, as Sam Walton put it, 'as little as we could get by with at the time.'

FEMA says that it does not factor in previous losses into its decisions on applications to redraw the flood zones.

The Federal Government is achieving its stated goal of helping more minorities go from being renters to being owners.

The scientific effort to inform the public about landslide risks often runs head-on into powerful economic interests.

Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public assistance.

A 'Globe' examination found that Boston police officers exercise broad discretion when deciding whether to issue a ticket.

In Los Angeles, the Police Department buys a 40-foot refrigerated trailer truck every six months just to hold DNA evidence.

Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.

Groups that work in black neighborhoods around the country have contended that much of subprime lending is 'predatory lending.'

In Illinois, where legislators are paid $45,000, plus as much as $10,000 for leadership work, about half are full-time politicians.

Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.

Although some Clinton biographers have been quick to label Alinsky a communist, he maintained that he never joined the Communist Party.

The Secret Service once watched for people who fit the popular profile of dangerousness: the lunatic, the loner, the threatener, the hater.

Some parents believe that competition helps prepare children to succeed. Others fear that their children will not be able to handle failure.

More than 30 of America's 100 nuclear power reactors have the same brand of General Electric reactors or containment system used in Fukushima.

State and federal laws protect whistle-blowers, those who refuse to do something illegal, and workers who file claims for workers' compensation.

New York state ethics rules prohibit lawyers from soliciting gifts from clients 'for the benefit of the lawyer or a person related to the lawyer.'

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