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Adanya Lustig

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Experiments in Execution: The Death Penalty Project

Tracking the policies and procedures that dictate how people are put to death in the United States.

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Miles from help: a project on maternal health in rural places

This project aims to understand why pregnant women in rural places aren’t receiving the care that they need and what we can do about it.

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America Bids on Amazon

We want to find out what every city is offering the tech giant in exchange for its second headquarters.

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Read FEMA’s 2014 plan for dealing with a hurricane in Puerto Rico

Read FEMA’s 2014 plan for dealing with a hurricane in Puerto Rico

by Adanya Lustig
March 23, 2018

The Federal Emergency Management Agency just released its plan from 2014 for how to respond to a hurricane in Puerto Rico, after having denied ProPublica’s request for the same document in October.

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In rural hospitals, women are dying during childbirth - and states aren't keeping track

In rural hospitals, women are dying during childbirth - and states aren’t keeping track

by Adanya Lustig
December 04, 2017

MuckRock asked all 50 states for a copy of the data frame that they use to track pregnancy-related deaths, in order to figure out if every department is using a similar system, or even tracking the same information. Spoiler alert: they’re all doing their own thing.

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How much did your town spend on its shot at being Amazon's second headquarters?

How much did your town spend on its shot at being Amazon’s second headquarters?

by Adanya Lustig
November 27, 2017

Towns across the nation aren’t just offering Amazon decades of property tax-free residency. Some also spent taxpayer dollars to put together the bids for Amazon’s second headquarters. Fresno, California spent $1,000 for the promotional video they had made. Camden County, New Jersey, authorized spending up to $40,000 on the bid’s design, renderings, videos and more from an architecture firm. On the other hand, many places spent nothing at all.

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How San Francisco's bid for Amazon's second headquarters does - and doesn't - discuss gentrification

How San Francisco’s bid for Amazon’s second headquarters does - and doesn’t - discuss gentrification

by Adanya Lustig
November 21, 2017

The tech-filled San Francisco Bay Area bidded on Amazon’s second headquarters, without giving much attention to how much that headquarters would gentrify some of the last remaining affordable spaces in the Bay.

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Maine town tries to charge MuckRock $750 for opening an email

Maine town tries to charge MuckRock $750 for opening an email

by Adanya Lustig
November 16, 2017

This week, in absurd and illegal requests, Maine’s Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority said that MuckRock is required to pay $750 because we opened the email they sent with their 37-page bid for Amazon second headquarters.

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Latest Requests See all

Title Status Agency Jurisdiction
Amazon HQ2 Bid (New Hampshire) Completed Department of Business and Economic Affairs New Hampshire
Amazon HQ2 Bid Rejected Columbus 2020 Columbus, OH
Amazon HQ2 Bid (New Hampshire) No Responsive Documents Department of Business and Economic Affairs New Hampshire
Amazon HQ2 Bid (Pittsburgh) Rejected City of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA
Amazon HQ2 Bid Fix Required The Office of the County Executive Montgomery County, MD

Recently Completed Requests See all

Title Status Agency Jurisdiction
Amazon HQ2 Bid Completed Office of Economic Development San Jose, CA
Maternal Death Data Frame Completed Department of Health South Dakota
Amazon HQ2 Bid Completed Mayor's Office Stonecrest, GA
Amazon HQ2 Bid (Galloway, NJ) Completed Mayor's Office Galloway, NJ
Amazon HQ2 Bid (Orland Park, IL) Completed Mayor's Office Orland Park, IL

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