Kevin Crowe
Investigative Newsource, Reporter and Database SpecialistKevin Crowe served as an investigative reporter and database specialist for Investigative Newsource, a nonprofit journalism enterprise embedded in the KPBS newsroom. Together they produce investigations and data analysis. Prior to joining Newsource, Crowe worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, reporting on campaign finance and donation limits, phantom real estate buyers, school test scores and local government spending. Kevin helped expose enormous differences in how states – and counties – investigate mysterious infant deaths for the award-winning series “Saving Babies” while at Scripps Howard News Service in Washington, D.C. A native of Missouri, Kevin spends much of his free time in the great outdoors, mostly in the pursuit of big bass. He is a graduate of Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI, and of the Missouri School of Journalism.
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In California, school districts borrow from one account to pay back another while they wait for payments the state is obligated to provide. -
Poway’s superintendent, John Collins, talks about Poway Unified’s use of Mello-Roos fees to build new, top-flight schools. -
A lot of those voters were in neighborhoods such as La Jolla, Bay Park, Bay Ho, North Clairemont and University City south of UCSD. -
Some San Diego homeowners are willing to pay hundreds of dollars extra in property taxes every month for newer and better-equipped public schools. -
KPBS Midday EditionIf all politics is local, all fundraising isn’t. Councilman Carl DeMaio headed north to Orange County last week to raise money for his mayoral campaign in San Diego. -
KPBS Midday EditionTwo years after a KPBS/Investigative Newsource investigation posed serious questions about how well the whooping cough vaccine works, new research confirms the vaccine is failing at a higher rate than expected. Troubling news as the country is on track to experience its worst whooping cough epidemic in 50 years. Health officials are looking at recommending a seventh dose of vaccine to control the outbreak.
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