The Walker Calendar Files
Open to business
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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.
The Walker Calendar Files
‘I want the choir to sing’
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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.
The Walker Calendar Files
Walker’s official work time declines as national fame grows
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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.
Money & Politics
Data: Wisconsin residents contribute modest totals to ‘super PACs’
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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.
databases
Records: At least 45 sex offenders in state’s nursing homes
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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.
Badgerlink
Wisconsin InfoLink: Another way to go back in time
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Serials librarian Ron Larson introduces us to an archive of newspapers, most of which are out of print.
databases
Backlog keeps Wisconsin immigrants waiting
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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.
databases
Wisconsin water woes
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National health rankings report that large numbers of people in Wisconsin are exposed to contaminated drinking water.
Accountability
Suffering in silence: Campus sexual assaults vastly underreported
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At University of Wisconsin campuses, most victims do not report crimes. The statistics are inconsistent. And most rapists go free.
suicides
Wisconsin suicide toll rises, exceeds rates of neighboring states
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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.
traffic deaths
Traffic deaths: Wisconsin’s rural roads are significantly more dangerous
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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.
DNA tests
Nine people freed on strength of DNA testing in Wisconsin
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In the last 10 years, about one-third of the post-conviction DNA testing in Wisconsin has resulted in a conviction being overturned.