Tom Kertscher

1 week ago | wisconsinwatch.org | Tom Kertscher

Reading Time: < 1 minute Wisconsin Watch partners with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our methodology to learn how we check claims. In April, 2,004 residents of Menominee County in northeast Wisconsin received benefits from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). That’s about 46% of the county’s 4,300 residents.

1 week ago | wisconsinwatch.org | Tom Kertscher

Reading Time: 4 minutes On a day of high drama and chaos — Donald Trump’s military parade, nationwide street protests and a political assassination in Minnesota — Wisconsin Democrats convened in Lake Delton to try to forge a way forward. The theme of the party’s state convention was “the road to 2026,” with elections for governor, the Legislature and Congress at stake.

2 weeks ago | wisconsinwatch.org | Tom Kertscher

Reading Time: < 1 minute Wisconsin Watch partners with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. Read our methodology to learn how we check claims. The median stay in public housing in the U.S. is four years, a 2024 study of U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department data found. Median means half the tenants in public housing projects stayed more than four years, half stayed less.

2 weeks ago | wisconsinwatch.org | Tom Kertscher

Reading Time: 4 minutes Republican President Donald Trump may have won Wisconsin in November, but Badger State Democrats see a pathway to winning a “trifecta” in state government in 2026. How they get there will be at the heart of the party’s state convention this upcoming weekend in the Wisconsin Dells. Winning a trifecta means holding onto the governor’s seat, whether or not Gov.

3 weeks ago | civicmedia.us | Tom Kertscher |Melissa Kaye |Beth Habhegger |Savanna Tomei-Olson

The percentage of Wisconsin schoolchildren not receiving state-mandated vaccinations because of their parents’ personal beliefs is four times higher than it was a generation ago. That rise in personal conviction waivers has driven a decrease in all immunizations among Wisconsin children ahead of new measles outbreaks hitting the U.S. that are linked to three deaths.