The Public Safety Review Committee of Madison addressed city-wide mental health issues Tuesday, with Madison Police Department Capt. Brian Ackeret reporting about the recently introduced mental health officer program.
Madison’s Board of Estimates agreed to allocate $30,000 to research citywide public opinion regarding the use of body cameras by Madison police, as well as to determine the benefits from the use of such cameras.
Members of Madison’s Community Development Authority proposed increasing rent and providing low-cost Internet to CDA building residents at a meeting Thursday.
An international student from China was recently sitting at a table in Dejope Residence Hall talking to one of his American friends in English, when another Chinese student saw him and attempted to translate for the American student, believing the international student did not speak proficient English.
Jason Furman, President Barack Obama's chief economic adviser, delivered a speech at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Monday, in which he discussed his three goals for achieving successful American fiscal policy.
Democrat state senators and the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission both sent letters to Gov. Scott Walker Wednesday, stating their grievances with the controversial race-based mascot bill currently sitting on his desk.
The city Landmarks Commission gave its approval of the alteration plans for the Delta Upsilon Fraternity House located on North Frances Street and listened to a proposal that included tearing down the Highlander, which is located on West Gilman Street, at a meeting Monday.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee passed an operating budget for the Working Class Student Union and listened to a 2014- ’15 fiscal year Sex Out Loud budget proposal at a meeting Thursday.
Jill Lepore spoke about Jane Franklin, her relationship with her brother Benjamin Franklin, and gender equality issues during nineteenth century at a lecture for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Humanities Without Boundaries Flagship Lecture Series Thursday.
Gov. Scott Walker is expected to approve a bill the state Senate passed Tuesday modifying landlord-tenant relations, according to Attorney David Sparer, who said there are 50 provisions in the bill and “every one of them is … a reduction of the rights of tenants.”
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