A new Wisconsin Policy Forum report finds Wisconsin’s population growth in rural areas is more robust than most of the Midwest.
Author Archives: Dee J. Hall / Wisconsin Watch
Dee J. Hall, a co-founder of Wisconsin Watch, joined the staff as managing editor in June 2015. She is responsible for daily news operations. She worked at the Wisconsin State Journal for 24 years as an editor and reporter focusing on projects and investigations.
A 1982 graduate of Indiana University’s journalism school, Hall served reporting internships at the weekly Lake County Star in Crown Point, Ind., The Gary (Ind.) Post-Tribune, The Louisville (Ky.) Times and The St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times. Prior to returning to her hometown of Madison in 1990, she was a reporter for eight years at The Arizona Republic newspaper in Phoenix, where she covered city government, schools and the environment. During her 35-year journalism career, Hall has won more than three dozen local, state and national awards for her work, including the 2001 State Journal investigation that uncovered a $4 million-a-year secret campaign machine operated by Wisconsin’s top legislative leaders.
Posted inHealth & Welfare
Can Wisconsin heal itself? New series provides insights into state’s most vexing health problems
A University of Wisconsin-Madison journalism class explores what ails the state — and how it can improve
Posted inFact briefs, News about Wisconsin Watch
How Wisconsin Watch checks claims for its Gigafact fact briefs
Fact briefs address widely circulating claims about current events and policies that can be answered yes or no.
Posted inGovernment
Who are the liberal and conservative members of the Wisconsin Supreme Court?
The election of Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protasiewicz, a liberal, upends the high court’s 4-3 conservative majority. Her 10-year term begins Aug. 1.
Posted inOpinion
Your Right to Know: End Wisconsin’s secretive ‘pocket veto’
Recently, Wisconsin Watch revealed how members of the Wisconsin Legislature’s powerful budget committee secretly hold up projects or programs they don’t like.
Posted inNews about Wisconsin Watch
Wisconsin Watch’s top 2022 stories shine spotlight, offer solutions, on complex issues facing Wisconsinites
Wisconsin Watch is a small but growing nonprofit newsroom whose guiding values drive everything we do. Here are some of the best things we published in 2022.
Posted inDemocracy on the Ballot, Government
How and why Wisconsin Watch examined ways to improve jail voting
As part of its “Democracy on the Ballot” series, Wisconsin Watch is highlighting barriers to voting as part of its commitment to strengthening democracy through stories about policies and laws that keep people from participating in our system of self-governance.
Posted inGovernment
Disinformation in Democracy: Identifying and Fighting It
Managing editor Dee J. Hall and the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin take a look at disinformation in the news in this webinar.
Posted inJustice & Safety, Open and Shut
Deals Vince Biskupic made as a prosecutor and judge raise questions of fairness in Wisconsin’s justice system
As Outagamie County district attorney, Biskupic let potential defendants buy their way out of trouble. As a judge, he offered deals that fell in a ‘gray area’ of the law.
Posted inJustice & Safety, Open and Shut
Wisconsin prosecutor campaigned on his record — but some high-profile cases had hidden flaws
One of Outagamie County District Attorney Vince Biskupic’s cases involved a rewritten police report; another, an exoneration.
Posted inJustice & Safety, Open and Shut
Two decades after high-profile murder trial, questions remain in the prosecution of Ken Hudson
A possible Miranda violation, a missing taped ‘confession,’ and an improperly charged girlfriend among the flaws in Vince Biskupic’s case.
Posted inJustice & Safety, Open and Shut
A horrific murder. Police helped a key witness. The prosecutor kept it secret.
District Attorney Vince Biskupic never revealed how police helped his witness. But she finally did — more than 20 years after the fact.