Ethan Barton

Education

Politically-connected nonprofit can’t prove how it spent $1.8m in grant funds

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April 23, 2015 8:03 pm

President Barack Obama, joined by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro, left, and Chicanos Por La Causa's Edmundo Hidalgo, right, and David Adame, steps onto a putting green outside a home in a housing development, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Feds paid $23 million to unqualified mortgage borrowers that system missed

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April 23, 2015 2:50 pm

U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. John P. de Jongh participates in a meeting dealing with healthcare at the Southern Governors' Association convention in Little Rock, Ark., Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Environmental Protection Agency may take over some Virgin Island programs

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April 21, 2015 6:01 pm

Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration finds big credit processing errors on business returns. (iStock Photo)

Tax man may have awarded $2.7 billion in improper business credits on returns

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April 18, 2015 1:03 pm

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has told Congress his agency's ability to respond to taxpayers seeking assistance with their returns has been reduced by budget cuts. (AP Photo)

Far fewer callers seeking assistance are getting through on IRS help lines

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April 18, 2015 9:58 am

Energy and Environment

Inhofe wants documents on EPA coordination with nonprofit environmental groups

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April 17, 2015 9:17 pm

Commercial airline customers could find flight schedules severely disrupted if hackers play havoc with a new Federal Aviation Administration control system. (AP Photo)

Technology

Airliners subject to cyberattacks that could crash navigation systems

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April 17, 2015 7:38 pm

Daniel R. Levinson, Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, pauses during a news conference Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012, in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Healthcare

Missouri contests $48 million owed to federal government for Medicaid

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April 16, 2015 2:52 pm

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations computer forensic investigators check computers in Los Angeles on Wednesday, March 11, 2015. (AP Photo) Â

National Security

Sensitive docs, computer passwords left unsecured after-hours at five agencies

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April 15, 2015 5:41 pm

Poor planning and repeated delays in a program aimed at speedier processing of bulk mail could jeopardize nearly $90 million in potential cost savings for the United States Postal Service. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes)

Delays, bad planning in program for faster mail risk $89.8m in postal savings

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April 15, 2015 12:58 pm

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Ethan Barton

Politically-connected nonprofit can’t prove how it spent $1.8m in grant funds

Feds paid $23 million to unqualified mortgage borrowers that system missed

Environmental Protection Agency may take over some Virgin Island programs

Tax man may have awarded $2.7 billion in improper business credits on returns

Far fewer callers seeking assistance are getting through on IRS help lines

Inhofe wants documents on EPA coordination with nonprofit environmental groups

Airliners subject to cyberattacks that could crash navigation systems

Missouri contests $48 million owed to federal government for Medicaid

Sensitive docs, computer passwords left unsecured after-hours at five agencies

Delays, bad planning in program for faster mail risk $89.8m in postal savings

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