Unsung Hero: Retired Air Force captain uses social media to hold city officials accountable
Burnie Thompson is building a new model of accountability using social media to ruffle the feathers of the political the establishment in the Florida panhandle.
Read More →Unsung Hero: Annette Smith battles entrenched power — and old friends
After years of battling the powers that be in relative anonymity, in January the Burlington Free Press named Annette Smith “Vermonter of the Year.” That’s a much kinder title than some others have applied.
Read More →Unsung Hero: Illinois watchdogs are raising a racket over local corruption
Perhaps the most long-lasting effect of the investigative work done by John Kraft and Kirk Allen with Edgar County Watchdogs isn’t the more than 200 officials they’ve chased out of office, but the viral impact they’ve had.
Read More →Unsung Hero: Joseph Project pastor brings hope, ‘dignity of work’ to Wisconsin
Pastor Jerome Smith Sr. is growing accustomed to changing lives. He seems to be the right man for the job.
Read More →Unsung Hero: An Oklahoma doctor brings the market back to medicine
Oklahoma City anesthesiologist Dr. Keith Smith was running his practice full-time in the early 1990s when he decided it was time to change the equation. So he and a colleague created the Surgery Center of Oklahoma, a facility that accepts only cash payment instead of billing insurance companies or the government.
Read More →Unsung Hero: How a conservative activist was targeted and fought back
Deb Jordahl had long been passionate about the First Amendment. But she never knew just how critical her voice was until she lost it in Wisconsin’s infamous John Doe investigation.
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