City of Madison solicits budget proposals online
It isn't the most practical idea to ever percolate through the city's budget process. But it also sounds kind of awesome: a special event where people can ride go-carts around Capitol Square. The idea,...
View ArticleGroup pushes for new 24-hour-a-day homeless shelter in Madison
Ulysses Williams is trying to get everyone to focus. The 58-year-old was homeless for about 14 months until he finally saved enough money to get his own apartment last August. Since then, he's made it...
View ArticleThe downtown hotel boom: Should Madison chip in to add more rooms for Monona...
The way Sanford DeWitt sees it, there are two kinds of travelers. There are the "spreadsheet guys," who "have to have everything planned out, have to have an itinerary." "They're going to stay at a...
View ArticleNew Madison planning head Katherine Cornwell moves to town in Gypsy Farm Bus
Katherine Cornwell was busy packing her beehives in Denver on Tuesday afternoon. Due to start her job as director of the city's planning division on June 10, Cornwell first had a bit of an adventure to...
View ArticleRenovated Madison Central Library will have expanded mission
For Trent Miller, the tricky part is coming up with a catchy name. Miller, who is program coordinator at the Madison Public Library, is about to have a world of possibilities open up. Madison's Central...
View ArticleDane County supervisors expect real results from new Poverty Commission
Dane County Supv. Jenni Dye knows what many people think about committees. "Sometimes people think of committees and commissions as where ideas go to die," she says. "We're hoping the opposite...
View ArticleWill major development change the character of State Street?
Max Grinnell fell in love for the first time on State Street. Not with any particular person, but with the urban setting in all its messy beauty. "It was an exciting place to be. The reason I was down...
View ArticleMadison to train staff in "dignified" communications after hostile emails by...
Amelia Royko Maurer wants to know what's so special about 15 seconds. The 15 seconds in question are the ones when Madison Police officer Stephen Heimsness shot and killed her friend Paul Heenan...
View ArticleWisconsin goes back to budget deficits
Andrew Reschovsky is disappointed. The economics professor at UW-Madison's La Follette School of Public Affairs has been studying the state's problem with budget deficits for decades. And say what you...
View ArticleStephen Heimsness agrees to resign from Madison Police Department
The city of Madison has dismissed its complaint against Police Officer Stephen Heimsness after reaching an agreement with him to resign. The agreement stipulates that Heimsness will not return to duty...
View ArticleWhat are Madison police doing to watch out for the homeless?
After a homeless man was fatally beaten on the Capitol Square June 18, Capt. Carl Gloede says Madison police started hearing comments that "this happens all the time and nothing ever happens about it."
View ArticleRacial profiling on Madison Metro?
Jessie Reeder has been a student at UW-Madison for seven years. She's also a regular Madison Metro bus rider. In all those years, she's never once been asked to show an ID to prove her student bus pass...
View ArticlePaul Soglin holds early fundraiser for 2015 mayoral run
Mayor Paul Soglin won't face reelection until 2015, and so far nobody has officially decided to run against him.
View ArticleThe Onion will cease publication in Madison
"The Onion" will no longer be printed in Madison after the July 25 issue. The satirical newspaper was founded in Madison in 1988 and went on to become a national brand.
View ArticleQuestions arise about contract renewal of Madison Water Utility chief Tom...
Susan Pastor is under no illusions as she asks the Common Council to reconsider renewing the five-year contract of Tom Heikkinen, general manager of the Madison Water Utility. "I have no doubt they'll...
View ArticleShould the Madison Municipal Building become a hotel?
Ald. Mark Clear wants the city to keep its options open. He wants the Common Council to at least consider turning the Madison Municipal Building into a hotel with a food court and restaurants, rather...
View ArticleCommon Council defeats proposal to turn the Madison Municipal Building into a...
An effort to let developers use the Madison Municipal Building as part of the Judge Doyle Square project narrowly failed to get approval from the Common Council Tuesday night. The massive project on...
View ArticleKoua Vang and city don't reach settlement on Occupy Madison camp
Koua Vang just couldn't settle. The city cited Vang in the spring for allowing homeless members of Occupy Madison to camp on vacant land he owns in the 3600 block of Portage Road. The city zoning codes...
View ArticleDane County looks to buy new vote tabulators
As floods go, the timing couldn't have been better. On June 27, the Madison clerk's office realized that several of its electronic vote tabulators stored at the Villager Mall had flooded.
View ArticleCapitol Police once again threaten arrests at Solidarity Sing Along, but take...
The Capitol Police again warned Solidarity Sing Along participants that they face arrest if they continue to gather without a permit in the Wisconsin Capitol Rotunda, as they have been doing each...
View ArticleTensions escalate at Wisconsin Capitol as police commence new round of...
State Sen. Bob Jauch (D-Poplar) doesn't understand what Gov. Scott Walker is trying to prove by arresting protesters singing songs in the Capitol Rotunda every day at noon. After several days of...
View ArticleMadison and Dane County spat over sewage
A conflict between the city and the county over the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District continues, with Mayor Paul Soglin wanting more say in who serves on the utility's commission. At last week's...
View ArticleOccupy Madison builds its first "tiny house" for the homeless
Betty Ybarra has been living out of a tent since she became homeless last May. But she and her partner will soon have a house all to themselves. With the help of Occupy Madison, the two have been...
View ArticleSolidarity Sing Along welcomes rival group of conservative singers at...
Ed Kuharski is a regular at the Solidarity Sing Along, the weekly noontime singing protest that Capitol Police have been cracking down on over the past two weeks, giving $200.50 tickets to dozens of...
View ArticleCalculating Monona Terrace's economic impact
The way Gregg McManners sees it, Monona Terrace is raking in dough for Madison. McManners has said that Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center, where he is general manager, has more than paid...
View ArticleWiggies one of two proposed homeless day shelter sites submitted to Dane County
Would Wiggies make a good homeless shelter? County Supv. David Wiganowsky thinks so. He was one of two people who submitted proposals for a permanent day shelter location.
View ArticleNeighborhood opposition fails to sway Madison Common Council on Monroe Street...
Aldermanic "courtesy" clashed with neighborhood interests at Tuesday night's Common Council meeting. The aldermanic power walked away the clear, if battered, winner in a meeting that went to 1:30 a.m....
View ArticleMadison Police and Fire Commission begins search for new MPD chief
Madison's mayor and Common Council won't have any input into who the city's next police chief will be. "I'm really happy about that," says Ald. Paul Skidmore, somewhat jokingly.
View ArticleAdvocates push Dane County to open homeless day shelter before winter
Dozens of homeless people and their allies came before a county committee Tuesday night with a long list of questions about why there still is no concrete plan for opening a permanent day resource center.
View ArticleCity of Madison to break ground on Central Park in September
Since the early 1970s, Madisonians have been talking wistfully about building a central park on the near east side. Next month, the city plans to finally break ground on that project. Laura Whitmore, a...
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