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Transportation Services presents budget to Student Transportation Board

Board of Estimates approves downtown neighborhood proposal including plans to demolish Mifflin area housing

City officials unanimously approved a plan for proposed redevelopment in the downtown area Monday, which includes possible plans to construct high rise apartment buildings in the Mifflin neighborhood.

City continues to approve ordinance giving equal benefits to employees in domestic partnerships

The Board of Estimates unanimously approved an ordinance Monday requiring private contractors with the city of Madison to give the same benefits, such as health insurance, to those in domestic partnerships as married couples.

Most students say new alcohol policy works

In the first semester since the program began, nearly 90 percent of UW-Madison students required to take a course on alcohol consumption safety found it beneficial, according to university health experts, though one participant disagreed.

Ward’s decision process to enter mediation with adidas draws conflict

The chair of UW-Madison's primary licensing advisory committee said Monday she is unhappy with the way Chancellor David Ward decided to enter a period of mediation with Adidas, rather than give the company 90 days' notice to pay severance to its workers as the committee recommended.

Election marks first run for voter ID rule

Tuesday's primary elections will be the first time voters will be asked to provide an acceptable photo ID before receiving a ballot, in accordance to the new Voter ID law passed last year.

SSFC hears University Health Services budget proposal

The Student Services Finance Committee heard University Health Services' budget request for over $13 million Monday.

City officials and police address bar ID policies

After a letter was sent from the mayor's office to local bar owners about controversial ID policies, city officials and police instructed bar owners and employees on bar admittance rules and management at an annual tavern safety meeting Monday.

America’s hat to become cheesehead: Canadians can now own Packers’ stock

So you're a diehard fan of the only publicly owned team in the NFL and want to support them from your home in Saskatoon, eh? Well it's time to start saving up loonies and toonies, you hoser, because Canadians can now buy stock in the Green Bay Packers.

Public workers’ union endorses Falk

The state's largest public workers' union endorsed former Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk Monday in her bid to defeat Gov. Scott Walker in his likely recall election.

Report: Renewable energy good for state

Increasing renewable energy generation while decreasing dependence on coal power plants in Wisconsin can lower rate-payer's energy costs, according to a report presented to legislators Monday.

Hundreds protest mediation with adidas

Hundreds of students and members of the Student Labor Action Coalition protested Chancellor David Ward's decision to enter a mediation period with adidas over allegations that it owes former Indonesian workers $1.8 million in severance pay.

ESPN college basketball reporter Andy Katz reflects on his time at The Daily Cardinal with Anthony Shadid

Anthony Shadid was the best of all of us.

Walker denied more time to challenge recall peitions

A Dane County judge denied Gov. Scott Walker's request Friday for a two-week extension on the deadline to challenge recall petitions filed against him.

Groups question Senate’s decision to take up Assembly's mining bill at hearing

Republicans decided last week to fast-track the Assembly version of a bill reducing regulations on iron-ore mining in Wisconsin instead of going forward with a more moderate Senate version proposed last week.

Athletic Board remains hopeful WIAA state basketball tournament will stay in Madison

Despite reports the Wisconsin high school boys' and girls' basketball tournaments would be moved to the Resch Center in Green Bay indefinitely starting next year, members of the UW-Madison athletic board said Friday they are still hopeful the tournament will stay in Madison.

Republican and Democratic state senators team up to propose changes to state's redistricting process

In a rare move, state senators from opposite sides of the aisle teamed up to propose legislation Friday that would ensure the redistricting process, done every ten years, is nonpartisan.

Police use Taser on drunken driving suspect and pepper spray crowd

After police Tasered a Madison man who resisted arrest, officers used pepper spray on a rowdy crowd preventing police from leaving with the suspect late Saturday night.

Reporting giant Anthony Shadid dead at 43

The world lost one of its greatest storytellers Thursday when New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid died of an asthma attack while on assignment in Syria.

SSFC denies Union, Rec Sports budgets

The Student Services Finance Committee denied UW-Madison's Rec Sports and the Wisconsin Union's budget requests Thursday, freezing the groups' funds at the amount they received last year.