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mahatmakanejeeves

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Wed Apr 18, 2018, 03:49 PM Apr 2018

The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Public Service, The Kansas City Star [View all]

The newspaper is in Kansas City, Missouri, not Kansas City, Kansas, but the investigation was into things that happened in Kansas.

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This @KansasCityStar Pulitzer finalist on govt secrecy was overshadowed, understandably, but it's exceptional & worth reading. Among jaw-dropping gets: In Kansas, child-welfare officials shred meeting notes on child deaths to foil media inquiries.



The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Public Service, The Kansas City Star

Finalist: The Kansas City Star

For courageous, revelatory journalism that exposed a state government’s decades–long “obsession with secrecy,” intended to shield executive decisions and suppress transparency and accountability in law enforcement agencies, child welfare services and other sectors of the government.
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