As Denver Aids Arriving Migrants, Its Homeless Residents Feel Left Behind — ProPublica

As Denver Aids Arriving Migrants, Its Homeless Residents Feel Left Behind — ProPublica

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Reporting Highlights Denver’s “Newcomers”: Thousands of migrants arrived in Denver after the Biden administration lifted asylum restrictions. The city offered them temporary housing and help getting jobs. Another Crisis: The city also faced … Read more

A Boise village for Christian retirees wants to rebuild. Will residents be safe?

A Boise village for Christian retirees wants to rebuild. Will residents be safe?

A retirement village in Boise for Christian pastors and missionaries who “gave their life to God’s mission” is now on track to go through major redevelopment. But some of the community’s age-70-and-up residents aren’t happy about the change, mainly because it would include a new public street. They are used to living in a peaceful … Read more

Cincinnati residents may lose one of their only health clinics

The Elm Street Center is one of the few providers of uninsured care in Over-the-Rhine It’s an hour until closing, but the Bobbie Sterne Health Center is bustling.  A mom rushes through the arched doorway of the brick building in the heart of Over-the-Rhine, just ahead of her slouching teenager. Another shepherds her three toddlers … Read more

Maine’s health department rarely investigates when residents wander away from care facilities

Maine’s health department rarely investigates when residents wander away from care facilities

After a state investigation into an incident where a resident left Frankfort Assisted Living without staff noticing, the facility became one of two residential care facilities that have been sanctioned by Maine’s health department for failing to prevent their residents from wandering away. Tara Rice for ProPublica Late one morning in May 2021, a resident … Read more