Jacob Orledge

Jan 8, 2025 | 19thnews.org | Jacob Orledge |Jackie Mader |Eleanor Klibanoff |Rachel Somerstein

Published This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the North Dakota Monitor. Fed-up North Dakotans, led by a group of women calling themselves the BadAss Grandmas, voted to amend the constitution and establish a state Ethics Commission six years ago. Their goal was to investigate and stop unethical conduct by public officials.

Jan 8, 2025 | propublica.org | Doug Bock Clark |Jacob Orledge |Joshua Kaplan |Daniel Rothberg

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. The Republican-controlled Supreme Court of North Carolina threw the election of one of its members into disarray on Tuesday as it temporarily blocked the certification of the Democrat incumbent’s narrow victory.

Jan 7, 2025 | propublica.org | Kyle Hopkins |Richard Webster |Joshua Kaplan |Jacob Orledge

This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with the Anchorage Daily News. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. The time to resolve Alaska’s most serious felony cases, such as murder and sexual assault, has nearly tripled over the past decade. Defense attorneys seek trial delays to manage crammed schedules, knowing that time tends to favor their clients. But Alaska judges are the ones who routinely say yes.

Jan 6, 2025 | inforum.com | Jacob Orledge

BISMARCK — Fed-up North Dakotans, led by a group of women calling themselves the BadAss Grandmas, voted to amend the constitution and establish a state Ethics Commission six years ago. Their goal was to investigate and stop unethical conduct by public officials. But the watchdog agency has achieved less than the advocates had hoped, undermined in large part by the Legislature the commission is charged with overseeing, an investigation by the North Dakota Monitor and ProPublica has found.

Jan 6, 2025 | knoxradio.com | Jacob Orledge

(Photo illustration by ProPublica. Photos by Kyle Martin for the North Dakota Monitor, Michael Achterling/North Dakota Monitor)(Jacob Orledge – North Dakota Monitor) – Fed-up North Dakotans, led by a group of women calling themselves the BadAss Grandmas, voted to amend the constitution and establish a state Ethics Commission six years ago. Their goal was to investigate and stop unethical conduct by public officials.