Proliferating hospital mergers precipitate contention between hospitals and nursing about the best ways to serve patients and communities. This situation is complicated not just by track record, but by religion.
This exposé from the News-Press reminds us of the stories of philanthropic self-dealing broken by the Globe Spotlight team in 2003.
Studies recently released by Britain-based Global Justice Now and the Global Policy Forum examine the growing influence of the philanthropic efforts of the mega-rich on the world stage and raise the question of whether these efforts need to be reined in.
The cases of Lisker and Register had the hallmarks of wrongful convictions in which police misconduct played the primary role. These kinds of efforts have had major impacts on the public’s perceptions of criminal justice and the death penalty.
Tom Grotting is in his frozen pants period. The materials are reclaimed, so the project is very environmentally friendly. Plus, the work is locally emotionally resonant.
The week before last, NPQ ran an article on the death of Architecture for Humanity and the subsequent survival and resurgence of its 32 chapters as a “multi-nodal” rather than single-hub network. Here is more about the form they have chosen.
The Judiciary Commission in Alabama found that Judge Marvin Wiggins violated state ethics when he gave indigent defendants who could not pay their court fees the options of going to jail or donating blood.
Boy, are we ever happy we did not wax on enthusiastically about the Philadelphia Media Network’s new setup: a confusing relationship with the Philadelphia Foundation and an institute that looks to be something of a fundraising arm. Frankly, if that setup was the answer, we’re not sure what the question was.
Amid another massive “sick out” by Detroit’s public school teachers to draw attention to the health risk they believe their school buildings pose to the children, the Detroit school district filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to prevent further school closures.
“As a whole, I’m not really worried about gentrification,” said planning director Jonathan Sage-Martinson. “I’m worried about involuntary displacement—folks being displaced because their incomes aren’t going up as fast as housing costs.” To us, this seems like a distinction without a difference.
Even after Sweet Briar College was retaken by its stakeholders, doubters—including former board members—continued to express public skepticism about the school’s long term viability. But even this early in the year, applications for next year have been coming in at an almost unprecedented rate.
While NPQ has noted that scientists at Virginia Tech did the tests that conclusively showed the degree to which Flint’s water was tainted, this is a bit of a deeper look at what that effort looked like.