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Ken McCall

Investigative Reporter

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

Ohio leaders focus on ‘selling our state’ to keep, lure the young and educated

A brightening economy and better job prospects may be helping Ohio stem the loss of young adults, and the much-dreaded brain drain.The state has finally seen the end of a decades-long trend of losing young adults, and for the first time, beginning in 2010, the area saw gains in its ...

Two top Ohio list with 20 OVI convictions

Nearly 1 million Ohio drivers have had their licenses suspended for drunken driving and 107 drivers have racked up 20 or more suspensions, a Dayton Daily News analysis of state data shows. Not all suspensions result in convictions, but the Daily News found two Ohioans – Curtis Sears, 54, of ...

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 ...

Almost 29,000 Miami Valley businesses were overcharged by $81 million for insurance premiums by the Ohio Bureau of Workers Compensation, a Dayton Daily News analysis shows.

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 ...

Elthia Foster (third from left) of Dayton is raising three children on a $9-an-hour job as a home health aide.

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 ...

Hamilton woman killed in Miamisburg crash identified

The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office identified the woman killed in Friday night’s head-on crash in Miamisburg as Heidi Saylor, 42, of Hamilton. Saylor was the driver of a small car on Friday night that was headed east on Ohio 725 approaching Linden Avenue, when it crossed into the westbound lane ...

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 ...

 

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