Tracey Eaton, a former HChron metro editor and ex-foreign correspondent, has an initiative to try to get records out of the State Department regarding spending in Cuba (as well as other fed agencies) See: .http://cubamoneyproject.org/
His efforts remind me that the State Department never responded to my own request for copies of the database of Americans killed worldwide - a record it keeps and distributes, in part, online.
Americans murdered in Mexico
US citizens continue to be killed in ongoing border violence. I've been covering this since 2009.
Was this teen offender wrongfully executed?
Debate over this 2005 Chron investigation - and other cases continues in Texas
Who killed Baby Jane Doe?
A 2003 investigation from the now online-only newspaper gave this baby back her name. But her murder remains unsolved...