Walker Stalker

Walker Stalker

Waste no time before checking out the latest project by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. The Madison-based nonprofit news organization has created a database of Walker’s calendar entries dating back to his inauguration. It shows the governor spending less time on state business and more on items marked as “personal” as he began jetting around the country to fund-raise, confab, and rally the support of national Republicans: By January 2012, Walker scheduled about 30 hours a week for state business — half as much work time as six months earlier. On some weekdays, eight- to 12-hour time blocks were simply…

Waste no time before checking out the latest project by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. The Madison-based nonprofit news organization has created a database of Walker’s calendar entries dating back to his inauguration.

It shows the governor spending less time on state business and more on items marked as “personal” as he began jetting around the country to fund-raise, confab, and rally the support of national Republicans:

By January 2012, Walker scheduled about 30 hours a week for state business — half as much work time as six months earlier. On some weekdays, eight- to 12-hour time blocks were simply marked “Personal.”

Matt has written for Milwaukee Magazine since 2006, when he was a lowly intern. Since then, he’s held the posts of assistant news editor and, most recently, senior editor. He’s lived in South Carolina, Tennessee, Connecticut, Iowa, and Indiana but mostly in Wisconsin. He wants to do more fishing but has a hard time finding worms. For the magazine, Matt has written about city government, schools, religion, coffee roasters and Congress.