Jonah Chester
Jonah Chester is Wisconsin Public Radio's 2022-2023 Mike Simonson Memorial Investigative Reporting Fellow embedded in the Wisconsin Watch newsroom. He most recently worked at Public News Service, a national radio news service, where he covered Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. He previously produced the 6 O'Clock News at WORT 89.9 FM in Madison, where he won numerous awards from the Milwaukee Press Club and Wisconsin Broadcasters Association for his reporting on issues in Dane County and south-central Wisconsin.
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Despite two years of government initiatives designed to provide financial aid and support to housing insecure residents, Wisconsin is still facing a shortage of affordable housing.
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Saturday is National Drug Take Back Day, and there will be more than 135 events across Wisconsin where folks can dispose of both controlled and noncontrolled prescription drugs
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The debate over election integrity has been at the center of the battle for the ballot in Wisconsin since 2020. But new polling of Wisconsin voters indicates a strong majority believe the state's elections are accurate.
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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers says the new Office of Environmental Justice that he established by executive order on Friday will be charged with ensuring the state's environmental initiatives are inclusive and benefit Wisconsin's diverse communities.
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In a Senate committee hearing, legislators considered a Republican-authored bill which would legalize medical marijuana, with tight controls and regulation from state agencies and doctors.
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The state high court previously chose Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' legislative maps, but the decision was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, which held the state court did not provide enough justification a new Black-majority assembly district called for in Evers' plan was necessary.
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A new report from the nonpartisan Wisconsin Policy Forum finds state-offered financial aid is largely failing to cover the cost of college for Wisconsin students.
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Wisconsin's Supreme Court on Wednesday considered whether absentee ballot drop boxes are permitted under state law
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Many workers in the construction industry, once a source of stable income for working-class Wisconsinites, aren't making a living wage, according to a new report, and experts say some employers are using illegal methods to cut labor costs by any means necessary.
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Attorneys for State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, who commissioned a partisan investigation into the 2020 elections, on Wednesday handed over more than 10,000 emails related to the probe to an independent watchdog group.