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
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 ...
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 ...
GOP gains more power from population shifts
Shifts in population patterns during the past 10 years, dominated by flight from inner cities, have resulted in big population gains in Republican-held districts of the Ohio House and Senate, and big population losses in districts held by Democrats.A JournalNews and Middletown Journal examination of U.S. Census data show the ...
Owners living in their home down; rentals up
The effects of the housing crash are clearly visible in census data for Ohio and the region.The homeownership rate declined from 2000 in Ohio and in the largest cities in Butler County, according to data released today from the 2010 Census.The state saw a decrease of 1.5 percentage points from ...
Ohio population shift favors GOP in Congress
WASHINGTON — With Ohio losing two congressional districts next year, state Republicans will have sweeping powers to draw new seats that could preserve their strong majority in Congress for the next decade while eliminating one Democratic seat and possibly even two. Not only do the Republicans hold the key posts ...
Ohio to see 74% increase in federal transportation spending
Ohio stands to see a one-year 74 percent increase in federal highway planning and construction dollars under President Obama’s proposed 2012 budget.Fueled by Obama’s promise last fall to pump a $50 billion “up-front investment” into transportation projects, the state’s federal highway funding would reach more than $2.2 billion for the ...
Warren, Butler spur most of region’s growth
The eight-county Dayton region continued to show slight growth over the last year, according to county population estimates released Tuesday, March 23, by U.S. Census Bureau.For the 12 months ending last July 1, the region grew by about 3,400 people, or 0.2 percent, the estimates show. But that growth, as ...
Extreme makeover of Beavercreek home to air Nov. 8
The Terpenning family and their extremely made-over new home will be on network television in early November, ABC announced Thursday.The episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition featuring the Beavercreek family will air at 8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8, the network said.WKEF-TV, the local ABC affiliate, will run a half-hour special ...
Income drops, poverty rises in latest census release
Ohio had the third largest increase in poverty rate among the states this decade and the third-highest decline in median household income, new 2008 data released by the Census Bureau show. The state had a 2.8 percentage point increase in poverty since 2000, trailing only Michigan and Indiana, according to ...
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