State Bureau Chief for Wisconsin Watch. It's no wonder truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Madison, WI
Joined October 2010
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A sitting Wisconsin governor had not endorsed a candidate in their party's primary since 1970. That's the story tonight folks. Good night!
Grateful to work with @Jmalewitz @deejhall and the rest of the @WisconsinWatch team on this investigative journalism/true crime story.
Nearly 40 years after Shelly Hansen vanished in Wisconsin’s Northwoods, unsealed records reveal a hidden suspect wisconsinwatch.org/2026/06/w…
Wisconsin Watch's @KertscherNews and
@CharlieBerens talk data centers and create some Old Fashioned comedy gold:
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As Wisconsin weighs who should pay, another possible billion-dollar data center emerges wisconsinwatch.org/2026/02/w…
No, Mr. President. Wisconsin’s voter roll figures aren’t a sign of ‘fraud waiting to happen’ wisconsinwatch.org/2026/01/w…
Is there a data center under development in your community that you don't know about? Let @WisconsinWatch know! And check out @KertscherNews story blowing the lid on secrecy deals made for four of the billion-dollar centers under development in Wisconsin. wisconsinwatch.org/2026/01/w…
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At least four Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers. They're being developed in secret despite dramatically affecting the economy, land use, energy costs, taxes, the environment and more, @WisconsinWatch wisconsinwatch.org/2026/01/w…
Wisconsin Supreme Court elections have drawn an ‘obscene’ amount of spending. Here’s why and what can be done about it. wisconsinwatch.org/2025/12/w…
Just another friendly reminder to CLICK ON THE SOURCE!
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Here's a cool thing that happened. Thanks to @LastWeekTonight for the love (of investigative journalism)!
Great work from @addie_costello shedding light on an overlooked problem in Wisconsin!
‘They are squeezing everybody in this park to death’: Owners of manufactured homes get little protection as private equity moves in wisconsinwatch.org/2025/09/w…
BREAKING: Wisconsin judge will resign, won’t face criminal charges for jailing cement contractor wisconsinwatch.org/2025/08/w…
Here's the original story from @WisconsinWatch in January 2024. At the time the case had been open at DOJ for more than a year. The special prosecutor was appointed in March 2024. wisconsinwatch.org/2024/01/w…
How's this for a quick turnaround? The LFB published its update on the state's finances today and we were ready to include the info in this fact brief from @noegoldhaber.
Is Wisconsin facing a structural deficit in the 2027-29 state budget? wisconsinwatch.org/2025/08/i…
In poker this would be known as a "tell."
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley raised no money for reelection through end of June (via @journalsentinel)
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Powerful storytelling from Trisha Young and @WisconsinWatch:
‘Harder to rebuild than it is to destroy’: AmeriCorps regroups in Wisconsin after judge restores funding that Trump cut wisconsinwatch.org/2025/06/w…
Here's my take on the #WisconsinSupremeCourt election from today's @WisconsinWatch Wednesday Report newsletter:
Since last November’s election there has been a gloom over liberal Madison.
At @WisconsinWatch, we will continue to scrutinize the Wisconsin Supreme Court closely, as we have since liberals took control in 2023.