The Price County Files
Our ongoing investigative series covering the issues that matter most to Price County residents. Each story is backed by public records, documented sources, and first-hand reporting.
🔍 County Government & Accountability
- The Hastings Resignation: Corruption, Censorship, and Financial Mismanagement Allegations
- Breaking Down the U.T.A.V. Proposal: Four Items, 148 Sources
- The Solberg Lake Expansion: ARPA Funds and What Hastings Got Wrong (and Right)
- Who Blocked the Emails? Inside the Constituent Communication Breakdown
- The Good Old Boys Club: How the Numbers Prove Hastings Was Right
💰 Public Money & Economic Questions
- The Carbon Credit Trap: 92,000 Acres Locked Up While Families Lose Their Homes
- Carbon Credits, Brownfields, and Foreclosures: Price County’s Economic Crossroads
- The Lionite Mill: $7 Million in Public Money and Questions That Won’t Go Away
- The Price County Files: Uncovering the PCUL and Lionite Mill Controversy
- Where Did the Opioid Money Go? Tracking Settlement Fund Spending
- The Opioid Committee: How Price County Will Spend $3 Million
- Price County Has $624,000 in Opioid Settlement Money: A New Committee Decides How to Spend It
- Who Pays? The WCMIC Escrow, Sheriff Schmidt’s Lawsuits, and the Transparency Question
🚔 Law Enforcement & Public Safety
- When Laws Exist But Aren’t Enforced: Price County’s Firearm Surrender Gap
- The $4 Million Radio Gap: Why Emergency Communications Are on the Brink
- The Oldest and Smallest: Price County Jail Overcrowding Crisis Revealed
- The 8-Month Void: How the DA Resignation Created a Justice System Gap
- From Kenosha to Price County: The Rural Prosecutor Crisis
- The Watchful Eyes: Flock Cameras Come to Price County
- When Transparency Fails: The Anthony Sleck Case and Open Records Crisis
- Police Dispatch Records: What’s Public, What’s Not, and How to Access Them
🌾 Rural Issues & Infrastructure
- United Pride Dairy EEOC Case: Visa Fraud and Harassment Allegations
- Bug Tussel: Broken Timelines and a $15 Million Broadband Question
- Satellite Solutions or Sky-High Promises? The Starlink Proposal
- The 40-Unit Question: Park Falls Housing and the Workforce Crisis
- The School Funding Death Spiral: How Open Enrollment Drains Rural Districts
- Rural Healthcare on Life Support: Ambulance Response Times and Clinic Closures
📖 Citizen Tools
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See also: Citizen’s Guide to OSINT: How to Investigate Local Development Projects Like a Pro