The Madison Trust for Historic Preservation released a statement Wednesday announcing its official opposition to the current proposal for an addition to the Edgewater Hotel, saying it had an inappropriate scale for the Mansion Hill Historic District.
Two weeks ago I wrote a column calling for an end to the practice of using race in university admissions. While many took offense to the way the column was written, I was surprised by how many people took offense to the existence of my ideas and to me personally. When I wrote the column, I thought I was simply contributing another idea to the campus climate that would enliven our discussions of race. I knew some readers would agree and others would disagree, but I was certain that I wouldn't find an environment that was hostile to me or to my arguments.
Be honest: coming into this football season, how good did you think Wisconsin was going to be?
A 21-year-old Madison woman was the victim of an attempted robbery last week on the 200 block of North Broom Street, according to a police report.
A UW-Madison student-athlete and founder of the Red and White Hunger Fight recently led the second annual campuswide Thanksgiving food drive for families in need throughout the area.
UW-Madison junior Marie Tapp only budgeted food for about 20 students when she pitched the idea of a diversity forum to her house fellow two weeks ago. Instead, about 150 students showed up at Smith Hall Monday night.
Because of financial pressures, the University of California Board of Regents approved a plan Thursday to raise tuition by 32 percent over the next year, the most drastic response yet to the recession by a state university system.
Young adults and school-age children are now eligible to receive the H1N1 vaccine, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services announced Monday.
President Barack Obama's recent visit to Madison's Wright Middle School only weeks before the anniversary of former President John Kennedy's assassination on Nov. 22, 1963—46 years ago Sunday—provides a look at the evolution of presidential security.
Over one million doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine have been allocated to Wisconsin, according to the latest report from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
The recent arrest of three teenagers for criminal damage to property is the latest incident in Madison's ongoing battle with graffiti.
As part of the 2009-'11 biennial state budget, all employees at the Wisconsin Division of Motor Vehicles will take a furlough day this Friday.
Ten days ago a 29-year-old Madison man was driving toward West Washington Avenue from Park Street on a Friday afternoon when the driver of a passing car waved a gun at him, according to a recent police report.
Russell Athletics, a clothing company that formerly produced licensed UW-Madison athletic apparel, announced plans last week to reopen a factory in Honduras and rehire the 1,200 workers who were let go when the factory shut down business last year.
A full review of BadgerCare, a Wisconsin health-care reimbursement program for low-income families, was requested from the Legislative Audit Bureau Friday by state Sen. Mary Lazich, R-New Berlin.
Wisconsin's unemployment rate decreased from 7.7 percent to 7.6 percent this October, according to a report released by the Department of Workforce Development Thursday.
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