It's not just about Johnson Utilities in Queen Creek and the newly-incorporated city of San Tan Valley. There are many more dots to connect that have been slow-dripping in the spigot of what gets published.
What does put this topic at the top-of-the-list are serious. So far few reporters have feared to go there - diving deep into the culture here of politics and corruption that permeate nearly every level of government in the East Valley landscape in most municipalities: where finance, and real estate interests are entangled with corruption at the highest levels.
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This year, 29 journalism students from 18 universities are traveling across the country. They are conducting hundreds of interviews, reviewing thousands of pages of state and federal statutes and other records and building databases and data visualizations documenting the issues surrounding water pollution.
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In May, they began the 10-week investigative reporting fellowship based out of a newsroom at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University’s downtown Phoenix campus.
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News21 Fellows
Jordan Houston | @JordanHouston3
Knight Foundation Fellow
Jordan Houston is a multimedia journalist based in Phoenix. She previously worked as an investigative reporting intern at The Washington Post while pursuing a master’s degree in broadcast journalism at American University. Her work has been featured in The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, WVII-TV, ROOSTERGNN, The Sophian and The Investigative Reporting Workshop
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Johnson Utilities Hit with $100 Million Lawsuit for Allegedly Violations Water-Quality Laws
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The NBO News-May 23, 2019
Alpine Investment Management Llc who had been investing in Johnson ... The institutional investor held 12,134 shares of the public utilities company at the end ...
Phoenix New Times-May 16, 2019
George Johnson and his family have lost a lawsuit to former ... His water utility company, Johnson Utilities, serves parts of Pinal County
AZCentral.com-Nov 7, 2018
Arizona utility regulators on Wednesday placed a partial moratorium on new water and sewer connections for the Johnson Utilities service area ...
AZCentral.com-May 31, 2018
And FBI investigators, they all maintain, were very selective in who they ... 6, 2011, Johnson Utilities came to a vote before the Commission ...
