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Cara Lombardo

Cara Lombardo

Cara Lombardo joined the Center in September 2016. She is a graduate student in the School of Journalism and holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the School of Business. She worked as a CPA auditing large banks and investment firms before returning to school to become a journalist. Lombardo previously interned with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's investigative team, where she reported stories involving the state's criminal justice system, tax code and open record laws. Before that, she was an editorial intern at The Progressive magazine, an editor at Madison Commons, and contributed to PolitiFact Wisconsin. She joined the staff of the Wall Street Journal in July 2017.

Broken Whistle

Wisconsin’s congressional delegation seeks to both protect, curb whistleblowing

By Cara Lombardo | October 15, 2017

While President Donald Trump stews about leakers, members of Congress from the state sponsor various measures that could either boost or sideline federal tipsters

Failure at the Faucet

Wisconsin misses chances to cut risk of lead exposure in drinking water

By Cara Lombardo | January 15, 2017

Funding for childhood lead poisoning prevention is down in Wisconsin, and proposals to better protect children from lead in drinking water have stalled in the Legislature.

Failure at the Faucet

Milwaukee takes action to reduce lead in water; critics say it is not enough

By Cara Lombardo | January 15, 2017

The city of Milwaukee, with more than 70,000 lead service lines, has taken several steps in the past year to lower residents’ exposure to lead in drinking water, but activists say the city has not done enough.

Failure at the Faucet

‘Regulatory vacuum’ exposes Wisconsin children to lead in drinking water at schools, day care centers

By Cara Lombardo | December 18, 2016

Gaps in federal drinking water standards enforced by the state leave numerous school and day care sites untested for lead in drinking water; numerous lead service lines remain.

Failure at the Faucet

Wisconsin schools, day care centers slated for lead service line removal under new DNR program

By Cara Lombardo | December 18, 2016

Eighteen communities in Wisconsin, including Milwaukee, plan to replace lead lines leading to schools and day care centers. View the areas of the state where the work is planned.

Blogs

Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism stands by story on lead testing protocols after DNR request for corrections

By Cara Lombardo | December 12, 2016

Nine months after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency warned against flushing water systems before testing for lead, the state DNR had not passed that advice on to public water systems in Wisconsin. Our story examined that delay.

Failure at the Faucet

Wisconsin DNR fails to update lead testing guidance in wake of Flint crisis

By Cara Lombardo | December 2, 2016

Nine months after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency warned against flushing water systems before testing for lead, the state Department of Natural Resources has not yet passed that advice on to public water systems in Wisconsin.

Government

We take facts seriously at the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. Here’s why.

By Cara Lombardo | November 25, 2016

An integral step in our process happens after a reporter finishes a story but before the story reaches our readers’ eyes: fact-checking.

Scott Walker's Wisconsin

State revokes tax credits after W.W. Grainger cuts, outsources jobs

By Cara Lombardo | April 29, 2016

The Department of Revenue has revoked $50,000 worth of tax credits from W.W. Grainger, a distributor of industrial and maintenance supplies, after the company failed to create promised jobs, sold subsidiaries employing hundreds of its workers and sent some jobs overseas.

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