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Jim Malewitz named Wisconsin Watch investigations editor

By Wisconsin Watch | November 14, 2019

After a nationwide search, the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism has chosen Jim Malewitz, a veteran of nonprofit journalism, as investigations editor.

The Cannabis Question

‘I’m still discriminated against’: Wisconsin lawmakers propose easing burdens on marijuana offenders

By Natalie Yahr (Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism) | October 26, 2019

Proposals could help those with past arrests or convictions seek jobs and other opportunities; experts say the existing expungement law is hard to navigate.

Immigration

How undocumented immigrants became the backbone of dairies — and how to keep the milk flowing in America’s Dairyland

By Dee J. Hall (Wisconsin Watch) and Riley Vetterkind (Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism) | October 6, 2017

Farmers, experts say reliance on immigrant workers, many of them in the U.S. illegally, will continue unless dairies — and Congress — make significant changes.

Documenting Hate

Memorial near Wisconsin synagogue defaced with swastikas, pro-Trump graffiti

By Mukhtar Ibrahim (Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism) and Alexandra Hall (Wisconsin Public Radio/Wisconsin Watch) | September 20, 2017

A memorial near the Gates of Heaven synagogue in Madison was spray-painted with swastikas and pro-Trump messages in large red letters hours before Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.

Immigration

A Syrian family settles in Wisconsin, just before U.S. refugee pipeline closes

By Dee J. Hall (Wisconsin Watch) | February 3, 2017

Some worry about President Trump’s immigration policies; local officials assure immigrants they will not be targeted.

Children Left Behind

Affordable rent, stable housing help some residents succeed

By | February 14, 2016

Stable housing plays a key role in ensuring academic success.

Children Left Behind

Apartment learning centers seek to shrink achievement gap for children and adults

By | February 14, 2016

Community learning centers in Madison and Milwaukee offer a promising method of shrinking academic achievement gaps.

Failure at the Faucet

Lead poisoning would trigger tap water test under proposal

By | February 8, 2016

Two Democratic lawmakers want the state Department of Health Services to investigate drinking water as a possible source when children are lead poisoned. The proposal also greatly lowers the blood lead levels that would trigger an investigation.

Municipal Wells

Downtown Madison built on coal ash

By | December 25, 2014

Before coal ash was more regulated, companies dumped tons of it in low areas of the Isthmus and elsewhere. Whether it has contaminated Madison’s water is unclear.

Invasive Species

Water-cleaning crustacean devoured by new predator in Lake Mendota

By | May 14, 2014

Daphnia, tiny crustaceans in Lake Mendota that graze on algae, and their good works are in danger. Each year their population is now crashing in the late summer as they are decimated by a voracious new predator called the spiny waterflea.

digesters
These seedlings are an example of the digester's potential to spawn side businesses. They are being grown by UW-Madison graduate student Brian Zimmerman and Madison resident Taylor Jacque, in a greenhouse powered by the waste heat from the community digester near Waunakee.

How to make a digester profitable: Veggies and poker chips

By Jessica VanEgeren (The Capital Times) | April 30, 2014

The greenhouse and its veggies are one example of a new cottage industry popping up across the country to capitalize on the waste energy, methane gas and the nutrient-rich solids that are emitted from a digester.

Cold Cases

Madison cold case gets warmer

By Bill Lueders | July 16, 2013

The investigation of Andrew Nehmer’s 1986 murder highlights both the opportunities that new technologies present for solving old crimes and the challenges posed by degraded evidence, vanishing witnesses and fading memories.

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