The CVPost is making available a link to the “Wisconsin Watch ” roundup of state developments in response to the coronavirus pandemic. For access please click on the headline.
Behind the Post: Happy Groundhog Day anniversary
It’s four years today (Feb. 2) since the CVPost website first appeared online.
Like today, that was Groundhog Day and we joked that we’d hold off for six weeks if we saw our shadows before the launch. But, shadows or not, we decided to unveil the website.
So, happy anniversary to us. But what has been accomplished in those four years? And what’s next? Click on the headline to find out more.
Your Right to Know: Study indicates fast-tracking of legislation is accompanied by increasing public mistrust of government
Many people in Wisconsin feel state government is moving in the wrong direction, away from the citizenry and toward the interests of politicians and their financial backers, according to a study by an investigative reporting class at the University of Wisconin-Madison.
Formation of ‘We, the Irrelevant’ spurred by fears that democracy here is being ‘nibbled away’
Sheila Plotkin, an 80-year-old retired teacher and McFarland resident, is among the growing segment of Americans questioning the strength of democracy in this country.
In 2015, she took the lead in forming a citizens’ group, “We, the Irrelevant,” which uses public records requests to gauge the power of citizens to influence state government, The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism looked into this question in considerable detail and the results of its investigation are reported here. [WARNING: reading this article may be hazardous to your confidence in Wisconsin’s state government.]
Chippewa Valley drug price increases reflect national trends
Two Chippewa Valley medical services providers told the Chippewa Valley Post that this area hasn’t escaped the state and national drug price increase trends reported recently by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. (The WCIJ article summing up its investigation is available by clicking here.) Maribeth Woodford, executive director of the Chippewa Valley Free Clinic, said her dispensary […]
A behind-the-pages look at questions that needed answers before posting the WCIJ story
By David Gordon, Associate Editor Chippewa Valley Post Our current lead story (http://cvpost.org/12734-2/), by Dee J. Hall at the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism (WCIJ), raised several practical and ethical concerns that had to be satisfied before we decided to publish it. In the interest of transparency, here’s a brief look at what went into that decision. […]