In Race For Better Cell Service, Men Who Climb Towers Pay With Their Lives
This story first appeared on the ProPublica website.This story was co-published with PBS Frontline.In the spring of 2008, AT&T was racing to roll out a new cell phone network to deliver music,...
View ArticleBuilt for a Simpler Era, OSHA Struggles When Tower Climbers Die
This is the second of a two-part series first published on the ProPublica website and was co-published with PBS "Frontline."Read part one, In Race For Better Cell Service, Men Who Climb Towers Pay With...
View ArticleHow the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing
This story was co-produced with NPR. It originally appeared on the ProPublica website.Imagine filing your income taxes in five minutes—and for free. You'd open up a pre-filled return, see what the...
View ArticleThe Bipartisan Push to Keep the IRS from Competing with TurboTax
This piece originally appeared on the ProPublica website.Last month, we detailed how Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, has fought a proposal that could make filing taxes easier and cheaper for millions of...
View ArticleTurboTax Maker Linked to "Grassroots" Campaign Against Free, Simple Tax Filing
This story originally was published on ProPublica.Over the last year, a rabbi, a state NAACP official, a small town mayor and other community leaders wrote op-eds and letters to Congress with...
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