Dean's work has been published in newspapers and periodicals for more than three decades. His investigations and initial reports served as breaking news later picked up by the daily newspaper and broadcast news on television and radio.

A few of Dean's discoveries, investigations and reporting includes published articles about...

-An abandoned construction site with toxic waste dump, which lead to clean-up.

-An event promoter paid $250,000 in public funds to produce on an event that never happened.

-The use of public funds for the neighborhood stabilization program inflating costs by creating property improvement projects that cost more then the resale value of the homes.

-The use of $1.4 million in public funds to purchase a building for the use as a community center that was found unfit for occupancy and too expensive to rehabilitate that was instead torn down leaving a vacant lot worth less than $100,000.

-A secret homeless shelter and related crime wave in a residential neighborhood that lead to better facilities and a county funded homeless shelter in an appropriate location.

-The lack of health care, job training, and educational opportunities in local communities.

-The release of millions of dollars of development bonds instead leaving the city on the hook for millions of dollars to finish private development projects.

-A city council member who used his government position and unauthorized photographs to advertise himself on an Internet sex solicitation website.

-The connection of an unlicensed contractor (and convicted felon) awarded city contracts for security systems on city buildings and his relationship with a city councilman and city manager.

-A payment of $250,000 in public funds to an inexperienced builder who abandoned the project and left it in ruins.

-Examining the motives of a citizen's group attempting to dismantle the local water district to have a foreign water district take over.

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