Analysis from Mary Ramsey and @caitmcglade.bsky.social for @charlotteobserver.com: The strongest support for Mecklenburg County's sales tax referendum was in NoDa, where 79.4% of voters at precinct 30 voted for the measure. South End and Uptown were also big drivers of support

FEMA has awarded only about 10% of the $20.7 million requests for Helene-related relief. And what little has been approved is going to engineering and planning support, not home buyouts.

My first story for the @charlotteobserver.com

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

Hello North Carolina! I just joined the @charlotteobserver.com's investigative team. I am a data reporter, which means I find and report stories on trends, systemic problems, outliers or disparities based on my own analyses. Think of me as a coder-math-nerd-journalist hybrid.

The tribe will contribute money and workers to maintain the popular tourist and trucking route, the tribal council voted unanimously.

Luci and I are hitting the road to North Carolina this week! I start on the investigative team at the @charlotteobserver.com Sept 29. Excited to dive into a new region and new topics for me! Luci is excited to get out of the Phoenix sun.

We love you Maddie. For 16 years you were my rock. A tiny girl with a huge presence. Not many cats would tackle 4 cross-country moves, camping trips & raising 10 puppies with curiosity and grace. You feared nothing & loved your people hard. Andrew & I are broken without you. @apantazi.bsky.social

Our President and CEO George McCarthy recently discussed manufactured housing in Arizona with The Arizona Republic. By Catherine Reagor and @caitmcglade.bsky.social: www.azcentral.com/story/money/...

i am working from Tucson today and wow it is crazy how much a difference 10 degrees makes

Sedona vibes are hard to explain. Laura Gersony nails em in this piece. Dare I say, she captures the ~aura ~ @azcentral.com www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

Larry Richardson appeared to be an early-career mathematician with potential, racking up more than 130 citations in 4 years. It would all be rather remarkable—if the studies weren’t complete gibberish. And if Larry wasn’t a cat. #InternationalCatDay scim.ag/4lg3wTp

The perpetrator of the July 28 mass shooting that killed four people, including a police officer, in a Midtown Manhattan office building had twice been hospitalized for mental health reasons. He was still able to get a gun.

Years ago, border czar Tom Homan saved undocumented immigrants from deportation in Phoenix. Then came Trump. Now Homan's former colleagues don't recognize the cruel man -- "Hulk Homan," one calls him -- that he's become. By @stephenlemons.bsky.social:

just in case someone on here sees this who is a) in AZ and b) worked a job where the AC broke and conditions got unbearably hot: I'd love to hear from you. Send me a message here or email me at [email protected].

The epitome of living with chronic migraines is being such a pro at pushing thru severe symptoms bc we’re taught to be ashamed of our headaches, that we’re overreacting, that we’re hypochondriacs to the point that an MRI finds a scar showing that years ago you had a stroke and you just kept going.

The share of schools achieving herd immunity in Arizona to protect against the measles has continued to decline. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Arizona now has standards for memory care in assisted living facilities. Here are the main reforms: www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Assisted living companies are pushing back on reforms that would establish Arizona's first-ever standards for memory care and require caregivers to take more training to serve residents with dementia. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

On grief

I AM ONCE AGAIN ASKING

Fast-growing AZ school districts depend on bonds. But the fastest growing ones are in Trump-leaning areas. The better Trump does in a Maricopa County precinct, the worse a bond campaign does. The correlation grew with each of Trump's runs. By me, @azcentral.com: www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Landlords here can evict you immediately on vibes and say it's in the name of "crime-free" housing. @hannahdreyfus.bsky.social and Max Griswold with RAND Corp. found this type of policy does not reduce crime and only increases evictions. For @azcentral.com: www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

It’s so lame when reporters don’t give credit to other reporters!!! Like imagine being so insecure you’d prefer to be a jerk to your own kind than to just admit that someone else got the scoop

Thank you @sejorg.bsky.social for bringing some of my fave ppl to AZ for a few days @floodlightnews.org

Ok everyone, here’s the most in-depth account of the viral Buford the dog and the missing boy story you’ll find out there. I talked to the rancher, Buford, the search leader, the family and Bo himself. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

A break from my usual investigations to share that I met Buford, and I’m publishing an in depth feature Can confirm Buford is a very good boy

As seen in Toledo, Ohio: Humane. effective. Reliable.

I really should make pottery pottery more often

DomestiCait is in full form in Jacksonville with after-school cheese boards for @apantazi.bsky.social’s kids. sahana says she cannot picture DomestiCait bc all she knows is Mustang McGlade Don’t worry on Monday I’ll be back in Phx living like a college kid playin open mics, stayin out too late

Hey Phoenix people, this pup needs help!

Huge appreciation for @geoffhing.bsky.social helping me update a web crawler that keeps on living three years after he built it 🤩🥳🙌🏼🥂

NICAR25 was excellent this year and I didn’t even mind the cold that much. We learned, we taught, we karaoked, ate incredible food, explored Minneapolis + spent time w/ our fave people! As always, thanks to @ire-nicar.bsky.social for putting on the best conference there is ❤️🤓🥳 @apantazi.bsky.social

Thanks to all who came to my database building session @ire-nicar.bsky.social! If ya missed it, or need the slide deck link, here are my do’s and don’ts: docs.google.com/presentation...

If you found our session on database building helpful, join me on Saturday for more do’s and don’ts and bring your DIY databases to workshop! @ire-nicar.bsky.social

Hey fellow data reporters visiting Minneapolis: go to Owamni. I have no words; I have melted. @ire-nicar.bsky.social

V impressed with the light rail situation here, straight from the airport to the conference hotel

Hello Minneapolis! Looks pretty frigid from the airport window but nonetheless thank you for not being below-zero @ire-nicar.bsky.social

Happy Valentine’s Day to @apantazi.bsky.social. Who knew you can find true love at journalism conferences and, more surprisingly, an R data reporter and a Python data reporter can overcome their differences for romance? 🤓 @ire-nicar.bsky.social

yikes. great digging by @taylorseely.bsky.social www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Pro tip when you’re really stressed out and in a bad mood reconnect with the hobby you’ve neglected

for the love of god and all that is holy can state agencies that publish data on schools please use their school ID and LEA ID the state education department uses so I am not eternally standardizing the way ya'll have the schools named

I crunched the latest AZ voter registration database to see who voted in November and who didn’t. www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

When you cold call voters and you get a particularly angry one

Meeting tonight at 5 p.m. in Phoenix Council chambers about potential trail restrictions. Under a change proposed for next summer, popular trails would have shut down a cumulative 116 days if the policy were in effect in summer 2024, affecting some 1,600 hikers per day on average.

A Mesa woman admitted to police that she was involved in torturing and killing three dogs, after her roommate found her journals describing in detail how she abused the pups. The Maricopa County Attorney's Office is not pursuing felony charges. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

lol we need one of these for the data reporter caitlins

Props to Samantha Wildow and the @daytondailynews.bsky.social for saving my dear friends tens of thousands of dollars that Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield tried to drop on them after their baby died. Journalism Matters. www.daytondailynews.com/local/their-...

Please oh please Tim Robinson bring back the hot dog suit guy and do an ITYSL skit on this @ityslmemes.com

Phoenix has a cool dataset that tracks the number of hikers per day on city mountain trails (that one of my students tipped me off to years ago!) I nerded out on it over the holidays to find out how many people hike on heat warning days and more! www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...