Government
Counting Wisconsin: What you should know about the 2020 Census
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With political power and a share of $675 billion in federal funding on the line, civic groups are trying to make sure that Wisconsinites get counted.
News about WCIJ
News-by-text: Three nonprofit newsrooms receive Google support for News414 project to engage residents of low-income Milwaukee neighborhoods
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Residents of low-income Milwaukee neighborhoods will be asked what they wish a journalist would investigate — and three nonprofit newsrooms will team up to dig into issues that residents want to know more about. Those reports will be sent to residents’ phones via text messaging.
The Cannabis Question
Blacks arrested for pot possession at four times the rate of whites in Wisconsin
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Gov. Tony Evers’ decriminalization proposal focuses on decreasing racial disparities in arrests; experts point to policing practices as the main issue.
Environment
Solar flare-up: Utility blocks Iowa firm from harnessing the sun in Milwaukee
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A solar company is challenging public utilities’ monopoly on providing electricity from solar in Wisconsin; state regulators have declined to intervene in the feud.
Failure at the Faucet
Wisconsin misses chances to cut risk of lead exposure in drinking water
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Funding for childhood lead poisoning prevention is down in Wisconsin, and proposals to better protect children from lead in drinking water have stalled in the Legislature.
Failure at the Faucet
Milwaukee takes action to reduce lead in water; critics say it is not enough
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The city of Milwaukee, with more than 70,000 lead service lines, has taken several steps in the past year to lower residents’ exposure to lead in drinking water, but activists say the city has not done enough.
Precious Lives
Precious Lives asks state leaders: What is your pledge in the coming year to reduce gun violence?
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For the past two years, the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism has partnered with other media organizations on Precious Lives, a wide-ranging effort that examined the causes and consequences of gun violence on Milwaukee youth.
Failure at the Faucet
‘Regulatory vacuum’ exposes Wisconsin children to lead in drinking water at schools, day care centers
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Gaps in federal drinking water standards enforced by the state leave numerous school and day care sites untested for lead in drinking water; numerous lead service lines remain.
Failure at the Faucet
Wisconsin schools, day care centers slated for lead service line removal under new DNR program
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Eighteen communities in Wisconsin, including Milwaukee, plan to replace lead lines leading to schools and day care centers. View the areas of the state where the work is planned.
Failure at the Faucet
Wisconsin must do more to protect residents from lead in drinking water, DNR and Milwaukee leaders agree
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Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett acknowledges adding anti-corrosive chemicals, the main strategy to prevent lead in drinking water, is a “Band-Aid” approach.
Precious Lives
Strong public support, pleas from grieving family fail to move Wisconsin on gun background checks
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18 states require checks in private sales; the NRA counters that such measures ‘cost law-abiding gun owners time, money, and freedom’
Precious Lives
A day in trauma-informed court: Parents work to regain custody of their kids
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Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Mary Triggiano uses a trauma-informed approach when working with adult defendants and juvenile offenders.