Madison Common Council approves 2013 operating budget, despite potential...
The Madison Common Council approved a $267.1 million operating budget for 2013 last night, giving an additional $900,000 to the Overture Center. This came over protests from Mayor Paul Soglin, who...
View ArticleWalker to let federal government establish Wisconsin's health care insurance...
Gov. Scott Walker announced Friday morning that Wisconsin won't be developing its own insurance exchange and will leave that task up to the federal government. The 2010 Patient Protection and...
View ArticleSoglin won't veto Madison's 2013 budget, but blasts Overture on lack of...
Saying it would be a "futile effort," Mayor Paul Soglin won't veto the 2013 budget, despite his unhappiness with the high level of spending and debt in the $267 million spending plan the Common Council...
View ArticleGlobal warming activists with 350 Madison Climate Action Team want to force...
When William Minter was a graduate student at UW-Madison in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was active in a group pushing the university to sever connections with companies doing business in South...
View ArticleSatya Rhodes-Conway joins growing list of Madison alders stepping down
Ald. Satya Rhodes-Conway announced this week that she won't run for reelection in the spring, joining at least five other council members who are stepping down. Nominating petitions cannot be...
View ArticleChallengers emerge in 2013 Madison Common Council races
When Tim Bruer was first elected to the Madison Common Council in 1984, one of the council leaders told him he "had a district nobody else wanted." Alders came and went, in rapid succession, Bruer...
View ArticleWalker's next big move on Obamacare: Is Medicaid expansion too sweet to pass up?
Although Gov. Scott Walker announced last month that Wisconsin won't set up a health insurance exchange as part of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a decision with much bigger...
View ArticleTo mine or not to mine? Lifting the mining moratorium could change the face...
When the idea for a moratorium on mining projects in Wisconsin was floated in the early 1990s, few people gave it much chance of succeeding. The speaker of the state Assembly, Scott Jensen, vowed the...
View ArticleThe 2013 legislative landscape for mining in Wisconsin
At the start of the Dec. 6 hearing of the state Senate Select Committee on Mining, Sen. Bob Jauch (D-Poplar) praised the open process the senators have taken in looking at changes to the mining laws....
View ArticleMadison seeks new proposals for 800 block of East Washington Avenue
Madison will once again try to spur development on East Washington Avenue, and Tim Metcalfe, president of Metcalfe's Market, says he's still interested in building a grocery store there. This week a...
View ArticleOverture Center and Soglin maintain prickly relationship
During the contentious budget debate over city funding for the Overture Center, Mayor Paul Soglin at one point sent the city's finance director, David Schmiedicke, to the arts center to review salary...
View ArticlePlenty of contested races in Madison's 2013 spring city council election
The Madison Common Council will have an unusually high number of races contested this spring, with just six incumbents skating by without an opponent.
View ArticleScott McDonell looks back on an eventful tenure with the Dane County Board
It's hard to imagine the Dane County Board without its current chair, Scott McDonell. McDonell was first elected to the board in 1996 -- the same year he graduated from UW-Madison -- taking over a seat...
View ArticleCandidates flock to 2013 Madison school board races
Beth Moss was a little worried when she decided not to run for reelection for the Madison school board next spring. In the last election, she says, it seemed as though "people weren't that interested...
View ArticleLate forms will keep two Madison Common Council candidates off the ballot...
The long list of candidates running for Common Council this spring will apparently be two candidates shorter than expected. Madison City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl said this morning that two candidates...
View ArticleMadison Common Council candidate Christian Hansen cries foul on incumbent...
The race for alder in the heavily-student populated 8th district turned ugly this week, with a challenge to both Ald. Scott Resnick's nominating petitions and his integrity. Christian Hansen, who is...
View ArticleConsultant urges Madison build hotel next to Monona Terrace, despite stagnant...
Heywood Sanders has seen this pitch before. The narrative goes something like this: cities build a downtown convention center in hopes of luring visitors who will spend lots of money in downtown...
View ArticleAld. Scott Resnick stays on Madison Common Council ballot, despite challenge
Ald. Scott Resnick survived a challenge to his nominating petitions from opponent Christian Hansen and will be on the ballot for the 8th district, which represents much of the student neighborhoods...
View ArticleA new hotel wouldn't necessarily solve Monona Terrace's problems
Charles Johnson, a consultant hired by the city, told a committee Monday evening that the convention business is a healthy one that Madison could do more to cash in on. But he added a caveat: "It's a...
View ArticleFreeze for Food run and walk benefits a nonviolent community in Colombia
The 32nd annual Freeze for Food run and walk will be held Saturday, Jan. 19, at the Vilas Park ice rink shelter. This year, the event will raise money for the residents of San José de...
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