The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. signed five nondisclosure agreements with developers, including three for projects for which local NDAs weren’t previously disclosed.
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Tom Kertscher joined Wisconsin Watch as a full-time reporter in October 2024. He started as a fact checker in January 2023 and contributes to our collaboration with the The Gigafact Project to fight misinformation online. Kertscher is a former longtime newspaper reporter, including at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He is a contributing writer for Milwaukee Magazine and sports freelancer for The Associated Press.
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Did Milwaukee juvenile homicides increase 57% under David Crowley?
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Posted inGovernment & Politics
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Posted inGovernment & Politics
David Crowley caps unlikely comeback with win in Wisconsin Democratic primary for governor
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Posted inEconomic Development
The public demanded data center news, and Wisconsin Watch is delivering
For the past six months we’ve produced multiple stories to inform the public debate about this hot topic.
Posted inEconomic Development
In a Wisconsin land rush, data centers made them millionaires
Some sellers whose properties fetched several times the fair market value are dissatisfied, and their former neighbors aren’t happy either.
Posted inEconomic Development
Wisconsin data center tax break to cost state more than $2 billion
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Big raise on its way for permanently and totally disabled workers as Tony Evers signs worker’s comp bill
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Local data center critics praise Microsoft’s pledge to stop using NDAs, but remain skeptical
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