Pia Malbran

Nov 1, 2024 | nebraskapublicmedia.org | Pia Malbran

For comparison, in 2022, Kansas voters upended poll data and predictions when they rejected a ballot measure that would have allowed lawmakers to tighten abortion restrictions or ban the procedure outright. Groups opposing the ballot measures raised millions of dollars from donors in other states, including the Sixteen Thirty Fund. And 2023, Ohioans decided to amend their state constitution to guarantee the right to abortion and other reproductive rights.

Oct 31, 2024 | kmuw.org | Pia Malbran

In a brightly lit living room, a mom and former first-grade teacher beams with optimism. As uplifting music plays, she touts the guaranteed promise of tens of millions of dollars in new revenue for Missouri schools every year. She says: “I care deeply about education. That’s why I’m voting for Amendment 2.”Flip the TV channel, and the tone shifts dramatically as another ad shows a different retired teacher underlining the word “zero” on a chalkboard in a classroom.

Oct 23, 2024 | propublica.org | Byard Duncan |Ryan Gabrielson |Mark Olalde |Jennifer Smith Richards |Pia Malbran

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 2019, the administration of then-President Donald Trump announced plans to relocate the federal government’s largest land management agency from the nation’s capital to Grand Junction, Colorado, a city of about 65,000 people a four-hour drive from the nearest major airport.

Oct 19, 2024 | propublica.org | Justin Elliott |Robert Faturechi |Alex Mierjeski |Andy Kroll |Pia Malbran

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. An internal whistleblower complaint at Trump Media calls for CEO Devin Nunes to be fired, alleging he has “severely” mismanaged the company and opened it to “substantial risk of legal action” from regulators, according to a copy reviewed by ProPublica.