Reports

The Grant County Record

Every meeting we have indexed across Grant County's public bodies, in one place, narrowed by who was sitting and by what they were discussing. Each entry opens the recording at the second it happened. Timestamps were located in automatic captions, which garble names and numbers badly, so the recording is the record and this page is a way in.

Updated September 17, 2026

Project Riverjump and Grant County's Data Center Dilemma

How we got here — the county's own documents, recordings and land records, from a closed factory in 2022 to a $2 billion sheet circulating in Marion this summer.

Updated September 16, 2026

Poling Investigation: “You are merely the caretaker of the buildings”

Grant County has released a 30-page internal investigation report about Commissioner Chuck Poling and referred it to state and federal authorities. The title is what the county clerk told the investigator she said to him in her office on July 1, 2025, after he said, in her account, that he owned the buildings: "Chuck, you do not own the buildings, the people own buildings, you are merely the caretaker of the buildings." Here is what each section says, with every claim opening the page of the report, the witness's own transcript or the exhibit it rests on, and what it does and does not settle.

Updated September 3, 2026

Marion city council, in their own words

Every Marion Common Council meeting, broken into the moments that matter. Tap one and the council's own recording plays right here on the page, starting at that point. Updated after each meeting.

Updated August 19, 2026

Flock Cameras in Grant County: 45 on the Map, So Far

Forty-five license plate cameras are mapped inside the county line, each listed below with a link to look at its location. How the towns bought them, and what public records do and do not say, is the second report in this series; what the agencies search with them is the third. Both are coming soon.

Updated August 17, 2026

Grant County data center hearings, in their own words

Fifteen hours of Area Plan Commission video across seven meetings, broken into the moments that matter. Tap one and the recording plays right here on the page, starting at that point.

Updated August 14, 2026