Is Wisconsin tough on doctors who make big mistakes, costing people their lives? No.
Is soil at the former Royster-Clark plant on Madison’s East Side still contaminated? Yes.
Was a Waupun prison guard suspended for making a lynching joke about President Barack Obama? Yes. '
Was a UW-Madison football player really acting in self-defense — as the athletic department contended — during a fight last fall at his off-campus residence? No. (He actually threw the first punch.)
State Journal reporters were able to answer these questions and many more during the last year, thanks to Wisconsin’s open records law. Continue…
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