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ProPublica wants to know! Where else ought the watchful eye of the ChangeTracker look? Would you like to be informed when Facebook’s or Google’s license agreements change? Maybe a regulatory agency or an NGO would be of interest?

Compliments of ProPublica.org – ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. We strive to foster change through exposing exploitation of the weak by the strong and the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them. Since Congress’ Websites have ground to a halt in a mad, last-minute rush to read the compromise stimulus bill before today’s House vote (and Saturday’s planned Senate vote), we’ve posted copies of the bill here.

A disturbing new report (PDF) issued by the congressionally mandated National Disability Rights Network documents incidents from across the country of a problem that fewer than half of states address: the restraint and seclusion of disabled school children.

Back on December 7th, Propublica.com released an article called Bush by the Numbers that compared statistics that shape American lives before and after George W. Bush took office. They included data like National Debt on Election Day, Percentage of Americans without health insurance, and Average number of Superfund clean-ups completed per year. Some of the information is quite striking and say more about the state of the nation than a dozen editorial columns.

The reader response to the article was so good, they have released a second edition using suggestions from Propublica and Huffington Post readers.