Four candidates fall out of mayor’s race, alder resigns
By Jon Brockman | Jan. 21, 2019Nearly half of Madison’s mayoral candidates dropped out of the race in the past month, leaving five names on the ballot for next month’s primary election.
Nearly half of Madison’s mayoral candidates dropped out of the race in the past month, leaving five names on the ballot for next month’s primary election.
Several hundred marchers rallied on the steps of the Wisconsin State Capitol Saturday morning for the third annual Women’s March, despite snow and temperatures in the low teens. Happening at the same time as other marches in cities across the country, the event in Madison brought only a few hundred protestors, far less than the estimated 100,000 who packed State Street for the original march to protest Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2017.
Gov. Tony Evers becomes Wisconsin’s 46th governor and calls for bipartisanship in the wake of lame-duck efforts to limit the power of his new office.
The Taco Bell on State Street will soon be serving alcohol after a Dane County judge ruled in favor of the restaurant in their lawsuit against the city over a rejected liquor license. Madison Mayor Paul Soglin vetoed the license, which had been approved by the City Council, in December 2017. He claimed additional establishments serving alcohol would make the area more dangerous and increase costs for the police department.
Madison’s city council will have several fresh faces in its chambers come April, as at least eight of its members will not run for re-election.
International teaching assistants at UW-Madison face challenges in and out of the classroom, but maintain a passion for teaching and their students’ learning.
UW-Madison Police Department arrested Samuel F. Spencer, a suspect connected to a string of thefts that occurred on UW-Madison’s campus in recent months.
To alleviate dining and housing concerns, the Associate Students of Madison hosted a town hall to allow leading faculty and students to discuss the meal plan and residence hall renovations Wednesday.
For the last 25 years, the Center for Educational Opportunity has served the UW-Madison community.
Democrats rode an ambitious agenda to their clean sweep of Wisconsin’s state offices, but questions around their ability to execute now surface as it seems likely that the offices they inherit will be weaker than those they ran for.
The Faculty Senate voted to reject a new proposal aimed at extensive and expedited reviews of majors in the UW System Monday in an effort to send a message to system officials.
In an unprecedented move, state Republicans have passed a series of reforms to disempower the offices of the governor and attorney general on key issues before they fall into the hands of Democrats.
During Gov. Scott Walker’s lame-duck period, the Senate approved 82 of his appointees, including two new additions to the UW System Board of Regents.
Downtown Madison will not have to fear an alcohol shortage following the city council’s decision to dismiss a motion placing a temporary ban on new alcohol licenses.
UW-Madison out-of-state undergraduates, along with some graduate students, may see a tuition spike in coming years with a plan Chancellor Rebecca Blank proposed Tuesday. Tuition is currently $36,805 for non-resident students and $37,805 for international students.
Despite budget deficit, UW System President Ray Cross asks for six percent increase to faculty and staff salaries.
Three Madison police officers were treated for exposure to fentanyl following exposure to fentanyl-laced heroin while serving a search warrant Monday.
As state Republicans prepare to strip the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general of some powers and stifle future voter turnout, hundreds of protestors descended on the Capitol building to voice their opposition.
For both groups, the number of salaried weeks was decreased from 33 weeks to 30 for the duration of the school year, and their summer hours were decreased from 12 hours to 10 hours a week as well.
A long-planned Madison Public Market has shifted locations, reverting the project's status back to renovation rather than new construction. Previously, the city placed a bid to construct the market along East Washington Avenue, though it that bid is being dropped, according to Anne Reynolds, chair of Madison's Public Market Development Committee. The new site is situated on the corner of North First and East Johnson Streets, across from the previous location.