Last week’s Cap Times cover story by reporter Danielle DuClos exemplified the type of accountability reporting we most value.
The story explored how, four years ago, Dane County Board members approved a desperately needed jail project only after scaling it down, removing a full floor from the seven-story proposal.
They appeared to want to demonstrate their anti-incarceration bona fides. “If we don’t build it, they won’t come,” seemed to be their thinking…