Evers administration says only one Diverse Business Grant has been suspended, but Cynthia Brown case shows challenge of distributing federal relief funds.
Author Archives: Corrinne Hess / WPR
Corrinne Hess is a Wisconsin Public Radio reporter based in Milwaukee. Hess has reported on the Southeast Wisconsin area for over ten years, writing for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Kenosha News, and other print media. Hess has won a number of awards from the Milwaukee Press Club, the Wisconsin Newspaper Association, and others.
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Property owners near Foxconn say they were misled. Now their homes are gone.
Homeowners near the Foxconn facility say they sold their homes for road widenings that were either abandoned, embellished — or never planned.
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‘Blight’ declaration for Foxconn one of the largest ever seen, experts say
In June 2018, the village of Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, declared four square miles as blighted, giving the village board one more tool to force landowners to sell their property to make way for the Foxconn plant and associated development.
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More homes in the crosshairs as Foxconn-related road projects proceed
One homeowner describes the ‘nightmare’ of discovering that her newly purchased home may be in the path of a road widening underway near Foxconn.