Wisconsin Watch
From the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism
We found 10 episodes of Wisconsin Watch with the tag “wisconsin”.
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Wisconsin’s 173-year-old ban allows only life-saving ‘therapeutic abortions.’ No one knows what that means.
October 19th, 2022 | 22 mins 21 secs
abortion, abortion ban, news, roe v wade, therapeutic abortions, wisconsin
Physicians criticize the law as outdated, vague and severe. Health systems are scrambling to guide them on how to stay out of criminal trouble.
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‘I had to speak up’: Two Northwoods friends push Wisconsin DNR to protect lakeshore forests
October 18th, 2022 | 18 mins 55 secs
audits, dnr, lakeshore forests, logging, news, northwoods, wisconsin
A retired forester and a writer say the DNR allows logging perilously close to lakes. State officials disagree. Now the agency’s auditor is being audited.
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As universal free school meals end, are Wisconsin families ready for it?
October 18th, 2022 | 19 mins 21 secs
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Elected officials and advocates debate the fate of free school meals that provided relief to families during the pandemic.
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Federal food aid in Wisconsin has evolved, but users still face decades-old barriers
September 13th, 2022 | 23 mins 41 secs
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The former head of Wisconsin’s FoodShare program says qualifying for and maintaining food assistance is overly cumbersome for participants
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Oshkosh Defense sent a big contract to the non-union South. Will it keep future jobs in Wisconsin?
August 30th, 2022 | 29 mins 48 secs
jobs, news, oshkosh, oshkosh defense, unemployment, union jobs, wisconsin
Despite tens of millions in state and local government incentives, the Wisconsin company is steering billions of dollars of work away from its namesake city.
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15 years later, Wisconsin university’s massive Lake Michigan seawall frustrates downstream neighbors
August 30th, 2022 | 15 mins 35 secs
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Erosion concerns and seawall feuds span the Great Lakes and the globe. Concordia University Wisconsin’s fortification has left neighbors bitter.
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Wisconsin’s ‘chronic Lyme’ patients embrace alternative treatments, rack up big bills
August 3rd, 2022 | 20 mins 56 secs
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Sufferers say they go down ‘rabbit holes’ to diagnose a condition that many doctors say does not exist.
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Are abortions ever medically necessary? Wisconsin doctors say yes.
August 3rd, 2022 | 8 mins 36 secs
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Life-threatening conditions can develop or be exacerbated during pregnancy — and childbirth itself is high risk for some patients, they say.
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‘When it’s rigid, it breaks’: How federal rules and market dominance fueled Wisconsin’s baby formula shortage
August 3rd, 2022 | 15 mins 39 secs
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The Women, Infants, and Children program funds about half of U.S. formula purchases. Wisconsin contracts only with Abbott Nutrition, whose recall and plant shutdown jolted the market.
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Wisconsin faces a ‘tangled series’ of abortion laws dating back to 1849 as it heads into a possible post-Roe future
July 14th, 2022 | 21 mins 59 secs
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Wisconsin Watch reporter Phoebe Petrovic examines the “tangled” system of abortion laws and court decisions dating back to 1849 that could take effect in Wisconsin if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade.