BadgerLink — the state’s online full-text library collections — now has access to five years of complete PDF pages from more than 250 Wisconsin newspapers, dailies and weeklies. This is a major breakthrough for those of you who need to search back issues of newspapers, as very few weeklies have any searchable archives and most dailies have extremely poor ones.

The nonprofit Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism is hiring a reporting intern. Applications are due 5 p.m. Sept. 13.

Wisconsin’s written consumer complaints down in 2009 despite increases nationally

Wisconsin InfoLink: an almanac of Wisconsin facts and resources.

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Melissa Willes has $25,000 in student loans and no degree to show for it. Now she’s suing Westwood College for operating in Wisconsin without the required state approval.

As elections draw nigh, librarian and WisconsinWatch blogger Ron Larson provides some tips on how to follow Wisconsin political money and keep tabs on the candidates.

Every action that sanctions official secrecy creates opportunities for abuse.