Former @IndyStar investigations editor, who loves great writing, the outdoors, playing pool, skiing and family.
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Steve Berta retweeted
Very timely today due to SCOTUS decision denying efforts by Health & Hospital Corp. of Marion County -- the state's largest nursing home owner -- to thwart a lawsuit over poor care at one of its facilities. But decision reaches much further.
Sharing this investigation again today for no particular reason at all. @indyemapolis @indystartony @starwatchtim indystar.com/in-depth/news/i…
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Big news: U.S. Supreme Court denies Health & Hospital Corp.'s effort to block civil rights lawsuits.
indystar.com/story/news/2023… via @indystar
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In response to HHC's Supreme Court case, a top Democrat in the Indiana General Assembly suggests it might be time for lawmakers to re-evaluate if the Marion County health agency should be allowed to run nursing homes.
WE SHOULD ALL BE MAD!!!
Marion County agency wants SCOTUS to strip protections for millions of vulnerable Americans
United States citizens should be MAD that the Health and Hospital Corporation (HHC) is pursuing this lawsuit...it has cost $700,000 far.
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Steve Berta retweeted
This is chilling but reinforces what i’ve said previously. This wasn’t a “wrong decision.” It was cowardice.
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'They left us at the disposal of a predator': How the FBI failed US gymnasts rssfeeds.freep.com/~/6924667…
Steve Berta retweeted
The Biden administration said all the states who asked for federal medical personnel got something by mid-March, though not necessarily as much as they asked for. Wisconsin asked for more than 200 federal workers and got 23, even as hospitals struggled to treat patients.
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Faced with the crisis in early December, Biden announced he was sending out enough workers to help 60 hospitals. It was far from enough. At the time, more than 1,000 hospitals in 48 states reported critical staff shortages, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data shows.
ALT This chart shows which states received the most federal workers from Thanksgiving 2021 to March 14, 2022.
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Bungled hiring during the Trump administration crippled a push for more federal health workers; That left hospitals during COVID calling for help that simply wasn’t there.
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Although Indiana law bans landlords from retaliating against tenants, lawyers and tenants say it happens all the time. I talked to Ms. Walker, who's been to the ER multiple times due to toxic mold in her apartment. She's now fighting against an eviction. indystar.com/story/news/real…
Steve Berta retweeted
A reminder that viral national stories like this one often rely on the work of local journalists, in this case the incredible @ArikaHerron. Please support work like hers: cm.indystar.com/specialoffer
An Indiana GOP state senator said teachers "need to be impartial" during lessons about Nazism and fascism wapo.st/3JTSTnX
Steve Berta retweeted
New: The pandemic killed so many dialysis patients that their total number shrunk for the first time in nearly half a century. Few people took notice. propub.li/32FOzHG
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Nobody told Yaneli Ortiz’s family that the factory they lived near emitted ethylene oxide. Not when the EPA found it causes cancer. Not when she was diagnosed with leukemia. And not when Texas moved to allow polluters to emit more of the chemical. propublica.org/article/a-pla…
Steve Berta retweeted
In Indiana, no one was accurately tracking jail deaths. So @starwatchtim & @ryanmartin did. They found inmates die every two weeks — many while awaiting trial. indystar.com/in-depth/news/i…
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NEW: Indiana’s red flag law has been touted as a national model. But we found that a gap in the law and poor execution have undermined its effectiveness. The results, too often, have been tragic. (thread) indystar.com/in-depth/news/i… w/ @IndyStarJohnny
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I’ll be on @FOX59 this morning with @angelaganote to talk about our red flag investigation. Tune in! indystar.com/in-depth/news/i…
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A momentous day for survivors of Larry Nassar’s abuse following the $380m settlement with @USAGym. @R_Denhollander has been a leader in the courageous effort to bring Nassar to justice and reminds us there’s still so much work to be done. @BBCWorld
Steve Berta retweeted
Warning: This video is graphic and gruesome. But it is important to understanding what can happen inside some Indiana jails. It is the latest in IndyStar's "Death Sentence" investigation into jail deaths. With @ryanmartin and @bobscheer
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Steve Berta retweeted
The #Purdue MFA and my time as editor of the @SycamoreReview were invaluable to my growth as a writer and a reporter and a human. Losing them would be a damn shame. #SaveSycamore
The future of Sycamore Review is in peril, and we need you to make a little noise.
The Purdue MFA and, with it, the 30-plus year tenure of Sycamore Review are under threat by the University administration.
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Steve Berta retweeted
NEWS: Chair @SenatorDurbin, Human Rights Subcommittee Chair @SenFeinstein, and Ranking Member @ChuckGrassley led a bipartisan group of Senators seeking additional scrutiny of the FBI's approach to child sex abuse cases following its dereliction of duty in the Larry Nassar case.