Policy

Transforming Inmates Through The Drama Of Shakespeare

WisContext

In an era of mass incarceration, the arts can offer prison inmates an opportunity for personal growth and help them prepare to re-enter society.

Bringing Native Languages Back From The Vanishing Point

Hayley Sperling

WisContext

Language shapes how people view the world, build ideas and communicate with others people — it's an integral part of community culture and personal identity. But for many Native American nations, their ancestral languages are on the verge of disappearing.

Series: Gerrymandering, Wisconsin And The Courts

The Difference Between Counties And Legislative Districts In Gerrymandering Disputes

Hayley Sperling

WisContext

Wisconsin is embroiled in a legal battle that could radically reshape the state's political landscape. Literally.

Series: Foxconn In Wisconsin

Foxconn's Complex Path From And Back To Lake Michigan

Scott Gordon

WisContext

Building the infrastructure to serve Foxconn's proposed factory with water will be a major engineering and construction project in its own right.

Series: Phosphorus In Wisconsin's Land And Water

Fighting Algal Blooms In The Great Lakes Without Pointing Fingers

Steven Maier

Great Lakes Echo

Federal officials are launching a two-year study to determine the best ways to convince farmers to help fight water pollution in the Great Lakes region.

Series: Gerrymandering, Wisconsin And The Courts

Gerrymandering Case Reveals Familiar Partisan Divides On Supreme Court

Scott Gordon

WisContext

Months of waiting and guessing are customary in cases heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, and that cycle is hitting home in Wisconsin.

Series: Gerrymandering, Wisconsin And The Courts

The Overlapping Lines In The Wisconsin Redistricting Lawsuit

Kristian Knutsen

WisContext

Where Wisconsin's voters live and which political parties they support is at the heart of a major lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Series: The Dairy State Economy

Series: Wisconsin's Diverse Waves Of Immigration

Why Immigrant Workers Became The Backbone Of Wisconsin's Dairy Business

Dee J. Hall

Wisconsin Watch

Riley Vetterkind

Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism

Immigration as a top line issue for dairy farmers would have been unthinkable just a generation ago when Wisconsin's agricultural landscape was dominated by small and medium-sized dairy farms run by the families that owned them.

Series: Foxconn In Wisconsin

How Foxconn Can Turn On The Faucet In Mount Pleasant

Scott Gordon

WisContext

As Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer Foxconn scouted out potential locations for a LCD manufacturing complex in southeastern Wisconsin — eventually selecting a site in Mount Pleasant that's 20 million square feet in size — the company was also thinking about water.

Series: Voter ID In Wisconsin

What Wisconsin's 2016 Voter ID Study Means And Doesn't Mean

Scott Gordon

WisContext

In a study commissioned by the Dane County Clerk that was released Sept. 25, 2017, University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Kenneth Mayer found that the state's voter ID law did keep significant numbers of people from voting in Dane and Milwaukee counties in the November 2016 election.