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2 months ago | 
duluthnewstribune.com | Jamey Malcomb |Emma McNamee
DULUTH — During the Section 7AA boys hockey tournament at Amsoil Arena over the past couple weeks, one person had a higher profile than usual — Duluth East activities director Shawn Roed. In early February, Roed and Denfeld activities director Tom Pearson learned their positions, as well as that of 39 other Duluth Public Schools employees, had been eliminated as part of the district’s attempt to cut $5 million from its budget.
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2 months ago | 
inforum.com | Jimmy Lovrien |Emma McNamee
DULUTH — Late last month, Elizabeth Lombardi was abruptly locked out of the system that pays her income and research expenses. As a postdoctoral research fellow in biology, Lombardi studies the effect of viruses on sunflowers. While she is hosted by a university lab in the Northland, the National Science Foundation directly pays her annual $60,000 stipend and $20,000 in research expenses.
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May 9, 2024 | 
inforum.com | Emma McNamee
OKABENA, Minn. — The year was 1933, and in the midst of the Great Depression, a slew of bank robberies swept the Midwest, and Minnesota was not immune. Newspaper headlines in bold black letters tell of five gunmen robbing First National in Brainerd; $5,000 is taken from a Starbuck bank. And in May of 1933, in the southwestern Minnesota city of Okabena, a team of four — two men, two women — made away with nearly $1,400 from the First State Bank of Okabena.
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Feb 7, 2024 | 
dc.medill.northwestern.edu | Emma McNamee
WASHINGTON – The arrival of the presidential primaries to South Carolina has kicked off the election season, but the Supreme Court has yet to announce its decision in a case that will determine the fate of the state’s 1st Congressional District. The case of Alexander v.
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Jan 20, 2024 | 
dailyherald.com | Haajrah Gilani |Emma McNamee |Phillip Powell |Juliann Ventura
Jeffrey Reed, who experienced persistent sinus infections and two bouts of pneumonia while using a Philips CPAP machine, poses with the device at his home Oct. 20, 2022, in Marysville, Ohio. The device was part of a massive global recall of breathing machines. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete) AP Editor’s note: This story was originally published by ProPublica.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
southfloridareporter.com | Haajrah Gilani |Emma McNamee |Phillip Powell |Juliann Ventura
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Congressional investigators are launching an inquiry into the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight of medical device recalls for the first time in years following reports that the agency failed to issue warnings about breathing machines capable of sending hazardous particles and fumes into the lungs of patients. U.S. Sens.
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Jan 17, 2024 | 
propublica.org | Haajrah Gilani |Emma McNamee |Phillip Powell |Juliann Ventura
Philips Respironics received thousands of complaints about a dangerous defect in its breathing machines but kept them secret for years as stock prices soared. The devices, including the popular DreamStation for sleep apnea, went to children, the elderly and veterans before the global giant announced a massive recall. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published.
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Nov 21, 2023 | 
dc.medill.northwestern.edu | Emma McNamee
WASHINGTON – Only recently dethroned as the largest living adult population in the U.S., the youngest baby boomers – the generation aptly named for the mid-20th century baby boom – will turn 59 this year. With such an extensive portion of U.S. adults nearing, or having entered retirement age, the country could be facing a diminished workforce.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
dc.medill.northwestern.edu | Emma McNamee
FREDERICKSBURG, Va. – Sitting beneath a red, white, and blue banner with “Fredericksburg Democrats” printed across the top, volunteer Donna Blalock watched her nearly-eleven-year-old granddaughter run around the parking lot at Walker-Grant Middle School, passing out sample ballots to voters exiting their cars. The ballots included candidates for races ranging from school board to Virginia General Assembly.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
thefulcrum.us | Emma McNamee
Both McNamee and Powell are graduate students at Medill in the Politics, Policy & Foreign Affairs specialization. Powel covers foreign affairs and politics and McNamee focus is on investigative news and politics.
