Wisconsin to force parents to work for FoodShare, despite doubts about effectiveness
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Gov. Scott Walker and the Republican-run Legislature expand work mandate to parents of school-age children and increase requirement to 30 hours a week
Flawed Forensics
Wisconsin man, casualty of flawed hair forensics, latest to be exonerated
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Charges against Richard Beranek were dropped after DNA proved hair and semen from rape were not his; junk hair analysis cause of numerous wrongful convictions.
Broken Whistle
Long-time judge: Some ‘independent’ doctors routinely rule against injured workers
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As an administrative law judge hearing worker’s compensation cases in Wisconsin for three decades, Joe Schaeve said he often knew how certain doctors hired by employers and insurance companies would rule even before opening their reports.
Broken Whistle
Defining Wisconsin’s whistleblower law
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Whistleblowing traditionally has been seen as a public-private effort to expose wrongdoing, said Patrick Burns, associate director of Taxpayers Against Fraud, whose group works to protect and advance the cause of whistleblowers.
Flawed Forensics
Wisconsin inmate says flawed FBI hair, fiber analysis forced him to take plea deal, 50-year prison term
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The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism identifies nine cases with misleading microscopic hair or fiber comparisons; one man serving life for killing a police officer in 1994 says he is innocent.
Flawed Forensics
Wisconsin’s tainted hair, fiber cases
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The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism has found nine cases in the state involving 12 defendants that featured faulty crime laboratory hair or fiber comparison. Seven cases were flagged by the national task force re-examining cases involving FBI hair and fiber analysts. Two are cases in which DNA testing showed that Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory hair comparisons linking suspects to crime scene hairs were wrong.
Wisconsin's Dairy Dilemma
How undocumented immigrants became the backbone of dairies — and how to keep the milk flowing in America’s Dairyland
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Farmers, experts say reliance on immigrant workers, many of them in the U.S. illegally, will continue unless dairies — and Congress — make significant changes.
Flawed Forensics
After 27 years, judge overturns rape conviction, cites flawed FBI hair analysis
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Richard Beranek’s conviction was overturned after serving 27 years in prison for sexual assault. His case is the latest in which flawed hair analysis by the FBI led to a wrongful conviction.
Flawed Forensics
Wisconsin, U.S. used flawed hair evidence to convict innocent people
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FBI admits errors in 90 percent of hair and fiber cases, including 13 in Wisconsin. Such errors are now a factor in one-fifth of all DNA exonerations.
Immigration
A Syrian family settles in Wisconsin, just before U.S. refugee pipeline closes
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Some worry about President Trump’s immigration policies; local officials assure immigrants they will not be targeted.
