Annie Flanagan

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Cara Buckley |Annie Flanagan

50 States, 50 FixesSimple, affordable initiatives like rain gardens are helping to soak up water in New Orleans. Credit... When Angela Chalk first heard there were ways that ordinary people could offset flooding in New Orleans, she was skeptical. Her neighbors in the Seventh Ward knew all about heavy rains that brought knee-high floodwaters, spilling into porches and marooning cars and homes, and were frustrated that it was something they felt powerless to stop.

Jan 22, 2025 | propublica.org | Sharon Lerner |Annie Flanagan |Alex Mierjeski |Joshua Kaplan

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The man tapped by President Donald Trump to be second-in-command of the federal agency that protects the public from environmental dangers is a lawyer who has represented companies accused of harming people and the environment through pollution.

Jan 18, 2025 | propublica.org | Doug Bock Clark |Joshua Kaplan |Sharon Lerner |Annie Flanagan

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. As a member of the Army National Guard in 2019 and 2020, Jefferson Griffin voted in North Carolina elections using military absentee ballots.

Jan 18, 2025 | propublica.org | Sergio Hernandez |Mollie Simon |Sharon Lerner |Annie Flanagan

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. In South Carolina, where I live, rural towns often remain largely divided by race, especially those with larger Black communities. You’ll often hear people describe railroad tracks that run through these towns and how white people live on one side of the tracks, Black people on the other.

Jan 17, 2025 | propublica.org | Sharon Lerner |Annie Flanagan |Alex Mierjeski |Stephen Engelberg

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Cynthia Robertson could be forgiven for feeling that the banner was aimed at her. Its white-on-black lettering — “FUCK BIDEN AND FUCK YOU FOR VOTING FOR HIM” — hung from the wooden house right across the street from her own.