WisconsinEye, a nonprofit broadcasting organization that’s provided Wisconsinites with direct access to legislative floor sessions, committee hearings, press conferences and event coverage for more than 18 years, will shutter operations next month if it cannot raise enough money to stay afloat.
WisconsinEye could shutter next month if fundraising goals not met
- MITCHELL SCHMIDT
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Republican members of the state Assembly gather for a press conference in the Capitol on May 6, 2015. Eight years earlier, WisconsinEye was launched as the nation’s first and only independent state capitol broadcast organization.
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