Mike McGraw
Special Projects Reporter
Mike McGraw is the Hale Center for Journalism's special projects reporter, working on in-depth stories about various topics, including government accountability. He also works with NPR and KCUR's Harvest Public Media component on stories about Midwestern agriculture and agribusiness. He comes to KCPT after a 30-year career on The Kansas City Star's investigations team, where he and a colleague won a Pulitzer Prize for a series about the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He has covered issues as diverse as the business of college sports, art forgery, the beef industry, workplace safety and wrongful convictions.
Stories by Mike McGraw
‘Chicken rule’ reaction
A Sept. 6 investigation of the USDA’s meat inspection division by the Hale Center for Journalism prompted a record number of hits on the station’s website, a political cartoon and editorial in The Kansas City Star and numerous comments and tweets. [View the story “Commentary on meat inspection story from the Hale Center for Journalism” on…
USDA sued over new chicken rule
A group that advocates for food safety went to federal court Thursday to try and stop the U.S. Department of Agriculture from implementing new rules for poultry inspection that they say would put consumers at risk. The new rule — the biggest change in meat inspection in the last half century — was featured in an investigative…
How the USDA’s new ‘chicken rule’ could change what you eat, and how it’s inspected
In one of the most far reaching changes in U.S. meat inspection history, federal regulators this fall will allow poultry plant employees — instead of USDA inspectors — to help determine whether chicken is contaminated or safe to eat, a move critics fear could spread to beef and pork processing plants. Indeed, a severe shortage…
Brownback signs controversial health care compact bill
By Dave Ranney — KHI News Service TOPEKA — Gov. Sam Brownback has signed into law a bill that might make it possible for Kansas to join a compact of states that want the power to run Medicare and Medicaid within their borders. The new law also creates the possibility that the compact states could circumvent…
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