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Lynn Hulsey

Investigative Reporter

Lynn Hulsey has worked at the Dayton Daily News since 1995.

Her investigative beat includes local government, politics, health care and nonprofits.

Prior to joining the DDN, Hulsey worked at the Springfield News-Sun.

She has won awards from the Associated Press, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Ohio Newspaper Women’s Association, the Best of Cox Award and the Education Writers Association’s National Awards for Education Reporting.

She was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize along with Tom Beyerlein for coverage of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference leading to the conviction of its former leader on 51 felony counts.

A native of the Dayton area, Hulsey graduated from the University of Dayton and lives in Kettering.

Latest from Lynn Hulsey

Highway Patrol spending $645K on shotguns; old ones don’t fit in new cruisers

The Ohio Highway Patrol is spending more than $600,000 to replace its shotguns because the old ones are too long to fit in the front seat of the Dodge Chargers the state bought to replace Ford Crown Victoria cruisers, the law-enforcement staple that is no longer manufactured. Lt. Anne Ralston, ...

Cold Stone Creamery received millions of dollars in loans through the program despite extensive default histories by the franchises.

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 ...

Josef Reif, former owner of the l'Auberge restaurant in Kettering, discusses the financial troubles that led him to close the restaurant in February 2012 after defaulting on his mortgage and a Small Business Administration loan.

l’Auberge owner blames default on competition, recession

For Josef Reif, the failure of his celebrated l’Auberge restaurant last year after more than three decades in business in Kettering is about more than red ink and personal bankruptcy. “It’s ripping your heart out, ripping your soul out. You don’t know where to turn and you are in an ...

Billions at stake over Medicare drug prices

Congress is looking to save money but has avoided a route that its own budget office says could save $137.4 billion by 2022. It would mean defying an industry, however, that spends billions lobbying Congress and federal agencies. Critics say the power of the pharmaceutical industry contributes to lawmakers’ unwillingness ...

Here’s how the $4.307 billion to run the legislative branch was spent in fiscal year 2012. The House of Representatives (28.5 percent) and Senate (20.2) were the biggest spenders.The Senate Hair Care Salon in the basement of Senate Russell Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington runs an annual deficit. The difference - last year it was $401,000 - is picked up by taxpayers. Photo by Kris Connor

Senate even losing money on haircuts

America’s taxpayers are paying a hefty price for the well-groomed appearance of the U.S. Senate’s members and staff. Since 1997 the Senate Hair Care shop has consistently run deficits of about $340,000 annually, a taxpayer subsidy that is growing rather than shrinking. Critics point to the salon as another example ...

Steve Staub, president of Staub Manufacturing Solutions on Stop Eight Road in Vandalia looks over undeveloped land he owns behind his existing buildings. Staub said rules protecting the city of Dayton's wellfield limit his ability to expand on the site, which is above the underground water wellfield serving Dayton and Montgomery County.  Staff photo by Jim Witmer

Job numbers gain despite regulation complaints

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s announcement this month of a long-delayed rule tightening air pollution limits on soot has revived one of this past election season’s hottest debates: whether government regulations are crushing small businesses. “And so it begins,” said Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., ranking member of the Senate Committee ...

Nearly half of the voters polled said they felt enthusiastic or were satisfied about the Obama administration and 55 percent had a favorable opinion of him, while 45 percent had a favorable view of Romney.

Healing economy key to Obama’s Ohio win

President Barack Obama was able to confound conventional wisdom, winning re-election despite high unemployment and lingering economic problems that many thought would derail his presidency. But enough voters seemed hopeful in a brighter future and were willing to keep a president they find likable and in touch with the average ...

Ohio exit polls: Brown leading Mandel, Obama/Romney too close to call

President Barack Obama, a Democrat, was leading Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney at the close of polls, according to exit polling results in Ohio from the National Election Pool Exit Poll conducted by Edison Research.The firm indicate the race is too close to call at this point.In the race for ...

Senate candidates blanket state in last-ditch push

Now that the debates are over, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown and Republican state Treasurer Josh Mandel are blanketing the state for a final pitch to voters in a race that appears to be tightening. A Dayton Daily News/Ohio Newspaper Organization Poll of likely voters shows Brown leads Mandel statewide by ...

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D- Fla., speaks before President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event at the University of Miami, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012, in Coral Gables, Fla. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Democrats, GOP disagree over candidates’ support for women

DAYTON — Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused Gov. Mitt Romney of being dishonest on women’s reproductive health care issues during Tuesday’s debate with President Barack Obama. “I think the president made it clear he is protecting a woman’s right to make her own reproductive choices and that ...

 

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