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Posted inGovernment, Money & Politics, The Walker Calendar Files

Open to business

by Kate Golden, Bill Lueders and Amy Karon May 20th, 2012June 11th, 2022 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

You don’t have to be a campaign donor or corporate executive to get an audience with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. But it doesn’t hurt. The third installment in a three-part series.

Posted inGovernment, Money & Politics, The Walker Calendar Files

‘I want the choir to sing’

by Kate Golden and Amy Karon May 16th, 2012June 11th, 2022 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Walker’s official calendars from his first 13 months in office chronicle these and scores more hours he spent building credentials with conservatives in Wisconsin and across the nation. The second installment in a three-part series.

Posted inGovernment, Money & Politics, The Walker Calendar Files

Walker’s official work time declines as national fame grows

by Kate Golden and Amy Karon May 13th, 2012June 11th, 2022 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Last year, Gov. Scott Walker crisscrossed the nation, breaking fundraising records and netting about half his donations from out of state. But his calendars show the consequences of fame and fundraising. The first in a three-part series.

Posted inMoney & Politics, Money & Politics Column

Data: Wisconsin residents contribute modest totals to ‘super PACs’

by Kate Golden February 6th, 2012November 14th, 2013 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Compared to Texas, New York and California, where super PACs raised upwards of $10 million, the few Wisconsin donors contributed a whole lot less in 2011. Search our database of $93 million worth of itemized contributions from across the nation.

Posted inGovernment, Justice & Safety

Records: At least 45 sex offenders in state’s nursing homes

by Nick Penzenstadler and Kate Golden March 6th, 2011January 28th, 2014 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Donald Henriksen is one of at least 45 registered sex offenders living among other nursing home residents, according to a Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism review of addresses for the state’s nearly 20,000 registered sex offenders and 399 licensed nursing homes.

Posted inWisWatch Blog

Wisconsin InfoLink: Another way to go back in time

by Ron LarsonSeptember 30th, 2010June 22nd, 2014 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Serials librarian Ron Larson introduces us to an archive of newspapers, most of which are out of print.

Posted inWisWatch Blog

Backlog keeps Wisconsin immigrants waiting

by Nick Penzenstadler June 4th, 2010March 4th, 2021 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

New data released last week from a research center at Syracuse University says immigrants facing deportation or seeking asylum, including individuals detained in Wisconsin, are waiting more than a year to have their day in court.

Posted inEnvironment, WisWatch Blog

Wisconsin water woes

by Allie Tempus June 3rd, 2010April 15th, 2014 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

National health rankings report that large numbers of people in Wisconsin are exposed to contaminated drinking water.

Posted inHealth & Welfare, Justice & Safety

Suffering in silence: Campus sexual assaults vastly underreported

by Wisconsin WatchFebruary 28th, 2010June 13th, 2014 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

At University of Wisconsin campuses, most victims do not report crimes. The statistics are inconsistent. And most rapists go free.

Posted inHealth & Welfare

Wisconsin suicide toll rises, exceeds rates of neighboring states

by Sara Jerving February 21st, 2010June 17th, 2014 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Experts say Wisconsin’s high suicide rate, relative to those of neighboring states, could be linked to a high rate of binge drinking, easy access to firearms and lack of available mental health care, especially in rural areas.

Posted inJustice & Safety

Traffic deaths: Wisconsin’s rural roads are significantly more dangerous

by Kryssy Pease January 31st, 2010January 15th, 2014 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Douglas Meyers, who died on a rural road in October, was one of 18 traffic fatalities in Marinette County in 2009 as the county traffic death toll tied an all-time record.

Posted inJustice & Safety

Nine people freed on strength of DNA testing in Wisconsin

Avatar photo by Dee J. Hall / Wisconsin Watch December 13th, 2009January 15th, 2014 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

In the last 10 years, about one-third of the post-conviction DNA testing in Wisconsin has resulted in a conviction being overturned.

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