▼EXCLUSIVE: News 3 Investigates caught an average of one out of every four Wisconsin stores overcharging their customers.
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▼EXCLUSIVE: Dozens of Reedsburg area business and property owners said Monday they are facing foreclosure even though many have never missed a mortgage payment. This was a day-turn to break the story.
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▼More Wisconsin businesses closed or laid off a significant amount of their workers in 2011 than a year earlier, state data indicated, although the Walker administration agency in charge of the numbers disputed them.
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▼Madison’s apartment vacancy rate hit its lowest level in at least 16 years, as economic challenges have forced thousands of Madison residents to seek affordable units.
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▼Retailers said a strong holiday shopping season could drive full-time hires, but sluggish sales would keep Wisconsin’s unemployment rate hovering near its 30-year high.
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▼EXCLUSIVE: I set out to explain an ironic trend, that companies are hiring, but unemployed people aren’t interested in the jobs. I used the trucking industry, which has tens of thousands of openings nationwide, as the example.
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▼EXCLUSIVE: I spent about a week obtaining government data for this story, then broke the news that Wisconsin banks paid back government money with funds meant for small-business lending.
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▼Retailers say most customers are unprepared as manufacturers stop making some incandescent light bulbs that’ve lighted our homes for 130 years. I separated fact from fiction in this On Your Side report.
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▼Doing day-turn stories on Friday nights forces me to get creative. Here, I explain how Madison-area business leaders say President Obama’s plan to spur job growth won’t affect their own hiring decisions.
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▼Housing industry sources confirmed to me that Veridian Homes, the Madison area’s largest home builder, had just laid off more than 40 percent of its staff because of sluggish new home sales.
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▼I found out that a cash-strapped local furniture chain had reopened after a judge ordered it to liquidate its inventory to pay back creditors.
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