Reparations to Black Americans to compensate them for the legacy of slavery, segregation and racism has been gaining steam lately. The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism’s Martha Daniels and Molly Carmichael look at a program in nearby Evanston, Illinois and the prospects here in Wisconsin.
Water-related sickness in Kewaunee Co. traced back to manure
Two Wisconsin icons, dairy cows and fresh water, appear to be at war. Two new studies, one from U.S. Department of Agriculture research engineer Tucker Burch and one from USDA microbiologist Mark Borchardt, find that in Northeast Wisconsin cow manure flowing into drinking waters accounts for ~76% of human gastrointestinal illnesses. Worse yet, the normal […]
Wisconsin DWD continues to wrestle with unemployment backlog
On Tuesday, Wisconsin’s Assembly Republicans — led by Speaker Robin Vos — introduced a one hundred million dollar coronavirus relief package. One of the central pillars of the package seeks to reduce the state’s Unemployment Insurance backlog — an issue the state’s Department of Workforce Development has spent months trying to solve. For more on […]
Debunking the Wisconsin Election Rumor Mill
On November 6, Speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly Robin Vos ordered the Assembly Committee on Elections to investigate Wisconsin’s general election on November 3rd. With no substantiation, the Rochester Republican Speaker repeated vague claims of “mail-in ballot dumps” and “voter fraud” to call for subpoenas, “so that every Wisconsin citizen knows their vote counted.” The […]
Mistakes Lead to Thousands of Uncounted Ballots
On April 7, 2020, Wisconsin held one of its most chaotic elections ever. The coronavirus pandemic was peaking, state and local lockdown orders were in place. As a result, a whopping 60% of all voters in the state turned to absentee ballots as a safer alternative instead of going to the polls in person. With […]
UW Child Abuse Doctor Investigated, Resigns
Barbara Knox, head of the Child Protective Unit at Madison’s American Family Children’s Hospital abruptly resigned in 2019 after being placed on administrative leave amidst allegations of intimidation and harassment of her colleagues. The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism has also uncovered evidence that Knox falsified records and misrepresented her own credentials in an effort […]
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