Ken McCall
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Ken McCall is a database reporter for the Dayton Daily News and has worked for the newspaper since 1998.
He does computer-assisted reporting, including data and statistical analysis.
McCall has worked on several award-winning projects, including a series on environmental damage caused by factory farms that was a 2003 finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.
He also worked on a series on soldier deaths and suicides, and Iraqi civilian claims that won the 2005 Joseph L. Galloway Award for Distinguished Journalism by Military Reporters & Editors.
Last year, he was a contributor to the Atlanta Journal Constitution’s nationwide analysis of student test scores that uncovered evidence of systematic cheating on standardized tests.
Latest from Ken Mccall
Black turnout surpassed whites in 2012 presidential election
Blacks voted in higher percentages than whites in November 2012, the first time that has occurred since the U.S. Census Bureau began tracking the race of voters, according to data released this week.A Dayton Daily News analysis found that the trend applied to both the nation and the state of ...
Sequester pain will hit local Head Start program
The across-the-board federal budget cuts known as sequestration officially began March 1, but the pain is just beginning to be felt by federal agencies and offices in southwestern Ohio. Of seven non-military federal agencies contacted for this story, all are planning for the budget cuts, but only three have taken ...
Ohio tax income up despite income tax cut
New census data provide more evidence that Ohio’s financial health is rebounding. The Buckeye State experienced big increases in sales taxes, personal income taxes, hospital-related taxes and corporation licenses in fiscal year 2012, the Dayton Daily News found. Ohio’s tax receipts grew by $905.9 million in fiscal year 2012, which ...
Taxpayers paid $1.3B to cover bad business loans
Lax federal oversight dating back years allowed lenders to repeatedly make bad loans to small businesses under a government program that has cost taxpayers $1.3 billion since 2000 on defaulted loans, a Dayton Daily News investigation found. Some borrowers in the Small Business Administration’s largest federally guaranteed loan program defaulted ...
State could owe millions to local businesses
The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation knowingly created an inequitable system of setting premiums for workers’ comp insurance that resulted in overcharges to hundreds of thousands of Ohio businesses between 2001 and 2008, according to a judge’s ruling in a class-action lawsuit. A March 14 hearing in Cuyahoga County Common ...
Battle lines forming in minimum wage debate
When President Obama proposed hiking the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour last week, he began a policy fight over an issue with broad popular support but widespread business opposition. Supporters say the raise, the first since 2009, is overdue, is hardly lavish and will boost the economy. Opponents, ...
Ohio on verge of population loss
If Ohio wants to increase its tax base and make up for the political clout it lost in the latest reapportionment of congressional seats, new Census data show the state will need to make a dramatic turnaround. In fact, Ohio needs something to change if it isn’t going to join ...
Montgomery County mirrors state, U.S. vote
If Ohio was the center of the universe for presidential politics in 2012, Montgomery County was the bull’s-eye. According to the unofficial statewide election results, Montgomery County mirrored the state’s presidential vote percentages more closely than any of the other 87 counties. In the county: * 50.7 percent voted for ...
Suspect test scores found across Ohio schools
Steep spikes and drops on standardized test scores, a pattern that has indicated cheating in Atlanta and other cities across the nation, have occurred in hundreds of school districts and charter schools across Ohio in the past seven years, a Dayton Daily News analysis found.The analysis does not prove cheating ...
Sunny weather forecast for holiday
The week is going to start out wet and chilly, but the weather is going to clear out for Thanksgiving, said WHIO-TV meteorologist Erica Collura.“Thanksgiving is going to be perfect,” Collura said. “We’re going to see sunny skies and temperatures in the low 50s.“Tuesday, though, is going to be miserable.”Sunday’s ...
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