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• Grades of Heat documents the environmental legacy of redlining

• Colorado is in the minority of states keeping comprehensive police officer data secret

• Investigating debtors' prisons across America

• 15 states refuse to cooperate in a nationwide effort to collect police certification data

• The Police Records Access Project moves forward

• Welcome to Agenda Watch, a platform to help journalists keep watch on local government

• How you can use climate finance data we collected for local stories around the globe

• Struggling to use the data in your data-driven story? Big Local News hosts its quarterly virtual open office hours

• Slow Internet? Find Out What Side of the Digital Divide You’re On

• Collaboration is key in harnessing the power of technology and data for better story discovery

• A California Reporting Project’s story wins a Golden Mike Award for Investigative Reporting

• Big Local News to collaborate with New York Times Local Investigations Fellowship

• Introducing the United States Place Sampler (USPS)

• New Big Local News dataset tracks animal-care inspections

• Big Local News helps tracking students during the pandemic

• Big Local News launches virtual open office hours to help journalists with data

• Instantly explore Big Local News projects with Datasette

• How you can help local journalism

• How Big Local News helped data journalists cover the midterms

• How you can support Big Local News

• Meet Audit Watch, the latest bot for Big Local News affiliates

• Irene Casado Sánchez joins Big Local News

• Explore school enrollment trends with updated Big Local News data

• Meet CAL-ACCESS Watch, a new notifications bot for our members

• New Big Local News dataset tracks the millions pouring into California campaigns

• Where to look for local stories about Census undercounts

• Your Big Local News account has linked up with MuckRock and DocumentCloud

• Meet Layoff Watch, a news-breaking bot for our members

• Meet the Big Local News summer intern class of 2022

• Three easy ways to automatically upload data to Big Local News

• There’s a huge hole in FBI crime data. Here’s how to check if local police are part of the problem.

• Scaling up scrapers with Prefect and Google Cloud

• A beginner’s guide to FBI crime statistics

• How journalists supported by Big Local News covered COVID’s costly toll on the disadvantaged

• How to deploy a Prefect agent to Google Kubernetes Engine

• How to push tagged Docker releases to Google Artifact Registry with a GitHub Action

• Big Local News is hiring