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Series: Gerrymandering, Wisconsin And The Courts

Gerrymandering Case Reveals Familiar Partisan Divides On Supreme Court

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: Food Security And Assistance In Wisconsin

Growing Incentives For FoodShare Users At Farmers' Markets

Samantha Nash

PBS Wisconsin

Throughout the growing season, many Wisconsinites stop by farmers' markets to grab a bite to eat, chat with neighbors and, of course, purchase fresh produce and other foods. But this type of shopping can be cost prohibitive for people who have lower or fixed incomes.

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.

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

Scott Gordon

WisContext

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: Climate Science And Wisconsin

A Fierce Hurricane Season Hones Tracking Research At UW

Hayley Sperling

WisContext

From Harvey to Irma to Maria, there have been no shortage of catastrophic hurricanes leaving parts of the U.S. and its territories under water and their residents on edge. But the technologies that track these storms is improving.

Series: Challenges To Wisconsin's Rural Schools

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

Scott Gordon

WisContext

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's Vietnam Veterans Present Complex And Personal Portraits

Scott Gordon

WisContext

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.

Wisconsin's Pioneering War Correspondent: Dickey Chapelle

Scott Gordon

WisContext

Dickey Chapelle had a complex relationship with war and with her profession as a photojournalist.

Series: Extreme Precipitation And Wisconsin's Climate

Series: Climate Science And Wisconsin

Helping Communities Prepare As Flooding Becomes More Frequent

Scott Gordon

WisContext

Scientists have known for a long time that major floods are becoming more common.

Series: Foxconn In Wisconsin

The Rules For Great Lakes Water And Foxconn's Thirsty Operations

An incentives bill currently working its way through the Wisconsin legislature would streamline how the state applies the Great Lakes Compact if the Foxconn decides to use water from Lake Michigan.