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Wisconsin Watch seeks director of partnerships for northeast Wisconsin
The director of partnerships will serve as an ambassador of Wisconsin Watch’s mission, focusing on the Green Bay and Fox Valley areas. The successful candidate will develop partnership opportunities, steward relationships and implement strategies to advance Wisconsin Watch’s mission to increase the quality, quantity and understanding of investigative journalism, fostering an informed citizenry and strengthening democracy.
Wisconsin Watch seeks audience and membership director
Wisconsin Watch seeks an audience and membership director to lead our audience development and membership growth efforts. This role is crucial in expanding our reach, deepening connections with our audience and fostering a vibrant community around our journalism. The audience and membership director will lead a team across our website,...
Hey, Wisconsin: Help us report on issues you care about ahead of November’s election
Three weeks ago, I stood in the middle of the packed Sherman Middle School gymnasium in Madison as hundreds of President Joe Biden’s most passionate supporters’ cheers rang throughout the campaign stop. Confined to a small press area, I watched as people passed “Let’s Go Joe” signs between one another while exuberantly chanting “four more years,” just 16 days before the sitting president dropped out of the race.
Was Kamala Harris once rated the most liberal US senator?
Wisconsin Watch partners with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our methodology to learn how we check claims. Vice President Kamala Harris was once ranked the most left-leaning U.S. senator, though the organization that did so has stopped rating lawmakers based on one year.
Did Donald Trump’s for-profit college ‘scam’ students?
Wisconsin Watch partners with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our methodology to learn how we check claims. Former President Donald Trump agreed after his 2016 election to pay $25 million, including $21 million to reimburse students, to settle three lawsuits alleging fraud by his for-profit Trump University.
‘Wisconsin Media Row’ delivered local, affordable convention coverage
The recently wrapped Republican National Convention in Milwaukee rolled out the red carpet (literally!) for local Wisconsin media outlets — the first arrangement of its kind at a national political convention. And by most accounts, “Wisconsin Media Row” was a success. Over the four-day nominating event, delegates...
Ideological Wisconsin law firm strengthening ties with state school boards
Erica Kochanski has been paying attention to the Waukesha School Board since moving to the school district in 2021. That was the same year the board gained national attention for deciding not to participate in a federal program that would have provided free school lunches to families. The district has since gotten notice for its handling of LGBTQ+ issues.
Kamala Harris tells roaring Wisconsin crowd November election is ‘a choice between freedom and chaos’
A roaring crowd of battleground state voters greeted Vice President Kamala Harris in Wisconsin on Tuesday as she opened her Democratic political case against Republican former President Donald Trump. In the November election, she said, “it’s a choice between freedom and chaos.”. “In this campaign, I promise you,...
Which Democrat will win rural votes for an open Assembly seat?
Three political newcomers — a former entertainer, a recent college graduate and a longtime district resident — are grappling for Wisconsin’s 40th Assembly District after incumbent Rep. Dave Considine, D-Baraboo, decided not to run for reelection. The new faces on the ballot include:. Brad Cook, 50, of...
Are undocumented immigrants housed at the most expensive hotels in New York City?
Wisconsin Watch partners with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our methodology to learn how we check claims. While about 65,000 migrants are being sheltered in New York City hotels, tent dormitories and other shelters, they are not housed in luxury hotels.
Family of man killed by officers during RNC in Milwaukee seeks answers
Angelique Sharpe now sadly knows firsthand how frequently police interactions can turn deadly for Black men. Her brother, Samuel Sharpe Jr., was shot and killed on North 14th and West Vliet streets in Milwaukee on July 16 by Columbus, Ohio, police officers who were in the city to work at the Republican National Convention.
10 claims we fact-checked at the Republican National Convention
In fact-checking the Republican National Convention live from Milwaukee, we found that statements about mortgage rates, deportations and fentanyl deaths were exaggerated, claims about harassing IRS agents and gas prices were misleading, and claims about living paycheck to paycheck and returning profits to the U.S. were accurate. Here’s a rundown...
Did US companies repatriate hundreds of billions of dollars after the Trump tax cuts?
Wisconsin Watch partners with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our methodology to learn how we check claims. American multinational companies brought hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S. after a tax cut law signed by then-President Donald Trump. In mid-2017,...
Biden decision upends election just days after Republicans unite behind Trump in Milwaukee
A failed assassination attempt of a former president. A national party convention with virtually no dissent. An incumbent president withdrawing from the race later than any in modern history. The past eight days have been unlike anything in modern American history — and the never-happened-befores are very likely to continue....
Did organizers choose Easter Sunday for Transgender Day of Visibility?
Wisconsin Watch partners with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our methodology to learn how we check claims. International Transgender Day of Visibility has been observed annually since 2009 on March 31, which happened to be Easter Sunday this year. During her...
Have mortgage rates quadrupled since President Joe Biden took office?
Wisconsin Watch partners with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our methodology to learn how we check claims. Mortgage rates are roughly 2.5 times higher than when President Joe Biden took office. Former President Donald Trump claimed “mortgage rates have quadrupled” during...
Were deportations under Donald Trump ‘the highest ever’?
Wisconsin Watch partners with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our methodology to learn how we check claims. The most deportations occurred under predecessors to former President Donald Trump. Deportation is the removal of noncitizens for violating immigration law. On July 17,...
Did federal authorities under Joe Biden investigate parents for speaking out at school board meetings?
Wisconsin Watch partners with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our methodology to learn how we check claims. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland directed the FBI in an October 2021 memo to meet with federal, state and local leaders to “facilitate the discussion of strategies” to respond to “a disturbing spike” in threats against school board members and other educators.
Wisconsin’s new rules on ballot drop boxes create opportunity for election challenges, ‘vigilantes’
Voters using Wisconsin’s newly legalized drop boxes may return only their own ballots, except in special cases, according to new guidance from the Wisconsin Elections Commission. That means even a voter dropping off a spouse’s ballot along with their own would be considered as having cast a ballot improperly.
Does fentanyl kill more than 100,000 Americans every year?
Wisconsin Watch partners with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our methodology to learn how we check claims. Drug overdoses kill more than 100,000 people annually in the U.S., but fentanyl accounts for only about 70% of that amount. An estimated 107,543...
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