Health and Human Services and Correctional Services — which also are the two largest state agencies — have led all other departments in overtime expenditures for the past five years, according to a state report.
Author Archives: Joshua Shimkus
Joshua is a Roy W. Howard Fellow supported by the Scripps Howard Foundation. He’s a graduate of the Master’s of Investigative Journalism program at Arizona State University. At ASU, he reported on wasteful state spending on a makeshift border wall, effects around the country of the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the impacts of lithium mining in the United States. Following graduation, he worked as a community journalist at the Quad-City Times focused on local government in Illinois.
Prior to his career in journalism, Joshua worked as a farmhand and served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tanzania.
