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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Republican-drawn map scores low in coalition contest
The vote in the Ohio House on Thursday was 56-36 in favor of the Republican-drawn congressional map, but in a different contest the map lost out big time to one drawn by a citizen.The outcome of that contest, which awarded points for qualities such as compactness and competition, was Ohio ...
U.S. poverty level highest in 52 years
The economic effects of the Great Recession on American households and families are stark in the latest data on income, poverty and health insurance released Tuesday by the Census Bureau.As unemployment rose in 2010, poverty also increased to an all-time high, while median income and the number of people with ...
Thousands of postal jobs in Ohio at risk
Thousands of jobs are at stake in Ohio if the U.S. Postal Service follows through on its plans to lay off 120,000 employees nationwide.The service had more than 20,000 employees and 1,200 offices in Ohio at the end of the last fiscal year, according to Victor Dubina, a Cleveland-based spokesman ...
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