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Author Archives: Bridgit Bowden / Wisconsin Public Radio

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Bridgit Bowden is the special projects reporter at Wisconsin Public Radio. Previously, she was the Mike Simonson Memorial Investigative Reporting Fellow at WisconsinWatch.

bridgit.bowden@wpr.org
Open and Shut podcast preview
Posted inJustice & Safety, Open and Shut

Open and Shut: Podcast preview

by Phoebe Petrovic / Wisconsin Watch and WPR and Bridgit Bowden / Wisconsin Public Radio April 14th, 2022April 14th, 2022 Why you can trust WisconsinWatch.org

Watch and listen to a preview of “Open and Shut,” the new podcast from Wisconsin Watch and WPR that shines a light on how prosecutors do their jobs — and the danger of allowing that power to go unchecked.

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Posted inOutbreak Wisconsin

Wisconsinites share how they are coping and adapting one year into the COVID-19 pandemic

by Bridgit Bowden / Wisconsin Public Radio, Coburn Dukehart / Wisconsin Watch and Bram Sable-Smith / Wisconsin Watch March 18th, 2021March 18th, 2021
Posted inHealth & Welfare, Outbreak Wisconsin

‘I’ve been very fortunate’: Living on campus, Azul Kothari hopes UW-Madison will prevent COVID-19 outbreaks with new testing protocols.

by Bridgit Bowden / Wisconsin Public Radio March 3rd, 2021March 2nd, 2021
Posted inEconomy, Health & Welfare, Outbreak Wisconsin

‘It’s a scary transition’: After pandemic closes doors at bars and restaurants, Amy Moreland carves a new career path

by Bridgit Bowden / Wisconsin Public Radio February 3rd, 2021February 24th, 2021
Posted inCoronavirus Coverage, Health & Welfare

Rosemary Kraemer, beloved mother, grandmother and ‘GG’, dies of COVID-19 at 74

by Bridgit Bowden / Wisconsin Public Radio December 15th, 2020August 23rd, 2021
Posted inEconomy, Outbreak Wisconsin

‘Winter is coming, and a lot of doors are going to be shut’: Restaurant and bar workers in peril as weather grows cold and COVID-19 keeps spreading

by Bridgit Bowden / Wisconsin Public Radio October 27th, 2020February 24th, 2021
Posted inCoronavirus Coverage, Government, Health & Welfare, Outbreak Wisconsin

‘It doesn’t look like there’s an end in sight to this’: Pandemic drags on as $600 unemployment lifeline nears expiration

by Bridgit Bowden / Wisconsin Public Radio July 22nd, 2020February 24th, 2021
Posted inCoronavirus Coverage, Economy, Outbreak Wisconsin

Introducing dairy farmer Bryan Voegeli: ‘Our Family Has Been Through A Lot’

by Bridgit Bowden / Wisconsin Public Radio May 26th, 2020April 6th, 2021
Posted inOutbreak Wisconsin

‘Day 54 and finally some financial relief’: Madison Bartender Amy Moreland on waiting for federal unemployment aid

by Bridgit Bowden / Wisconsin Public Radio May 11th, 2020February 24th, 2021
Posted inCoronavirus Coverage, Outbreak Wisconsin

Introducing Amy Moreland: Madison bartender

by Bridgit Bowden / Wisconsin Public Radio April 27th, 2020February 24th, 2021
Posted inEconomy, Government

No relief from Wisconsin’s 565 percent payday loan interest under new rules

by Bridgit Bowden / Wisconsin Public Radio June 10th, 2016September 16th, 2016
Posted inEconomy, Environment, Frac Sand Rush, Health & Welfare

Controversy on Wisconsin-Iowa border as frac sand mine, No. 1 in violations, seeks to expand

by Bridgit Bowden / Wisconsin Public Radio May 5th, 2016September 16th, 2016

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