Articles by Scott Gordon

Transforming Inmates Through The Drama Of Shakespeare

Scott Gordon
WisContext
Video: 
University Place
PBS Wisconsin
Tuesday, October 17, 2017 - 2:40pm
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.
Series: Foxconn In Wisconsin

Foxconn's Complex Path From And Back To Lake Michigan

Scott Gordon
WisContext
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 - 8:00am
Building the infrastructure to serve Foxconn's proposed factory with water will be a major engineering and construction project in its own right.
Series: Gerrymandering, Wisconsin And The Courts

Gerrymandering Case Reveals Familiar Partisan Divides On Supreme Court

Scott Gordon
WisContext
Video: 
Frederica Freyberg
PBS Wisconsin
Monday, October 9, 2017 - 12:15pm
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: Foxconn In Wisconsin

How Foxconn Can Turn On The Faucet In Mount Pleasant

Scott Gordon
WisContext
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 - 11:35am
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
Video: 
Frederica Freyberg
PBS Wisconsin
Tuesday, October 3, 2017 - 2:15pm
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.

Capping A Brief Boom For Wisconsin's Historic Preservation Tax Credit

Scott Gordon
WisContext
Video: 
Frederica Freyberg
PBS Wisconsin
Monday, October 2, 2017 - 10:25am
Given the budget season's extensive debates over broad funding areas like transportation, there's understandably been less attention recently on a dispute over Wisconsin's historic preservation tax credits.
Series: Challenges To Wisconsin's Rural Schools

'Sparse' School Districts In Wisconsin Still Face Long-Term Uncertainty

Scott Gordon
WisContext
Video: 
Frederica Freyberg
PBS Wisconsin
Tuesday, September 26, 2017 - 11:00am
As students returned to classes around Wisconsin, uncertainty among school districts that rely on state funding lasted right up through the end of the Legislature's much-prolonged biennial budget process.

Wisconsin Public School Students Have Mostly Consistent Immunization Rates, With A Few Exceptions

Scott Gordon
WisContext
Monday, September 25, 2017 - 9:15am
Health disparities between urban and rural populations don't quite hold when it comes to immunization rates in Wisconsin.

Exploring The Value-Added Business Strategy Of Pizza Farms

Scott Gordon
WisContext
Audio: 
Rob Ferrett
Wisconsin Public Radio
Thursday, September 21, 2017 - 4:10pm
The rising popularity of "pizza farms" may seem like just another quaint foodie trend, but there's business sense behind the idea.

Wisconsin's Vietnam Veterans Present Complex And Personal Portraits

Scott Gordon
WisContext
Video: 
University Place
PBS Wisconsin
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 - 3:00pm
The indelible imprint of the Vietnam War and the myriad marks it left on the lives of those people who experienced it is impossible to miss in a series of veteran portraits by photographer James Gill.