City officials will begin deliberations Monday to decide whether to condemn several properties on the corner of North Bassett Street and West Mifflin Street to build a neighborhood park.
Should the state have the right to end people’s lives as a punishment? Is that ever going to be effective in reducing the pain and suffering inflicted by the most heinous crimes, let alone eradicating them completely? I do not deny that those who commit statutory wrongs in our society should be punished, but I wonder whether this particular disciplinary method is serving as an effective deterrent. Outside of certain particularized situations, I can no longer accept that it is.
On a warm spring evening in Madison, two unsuspecting young adults were enjoying a peaceful evening at the park. Then, without warning, the night took an interesting turn.
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Gov. Scott Walker released more details of his Feb. 20 budget plans Sunday, announcing he would allocate $475.6 million to education reforms such as skills development and performance-based initiatives in K-12 and higher education.
When former University of Wisconsin-Madison student Tosha Songolo visited her family in the Eastern Congo for a week in 2010, she entered a country “clearly torn apart” by the deadliest conflict the world has seen since World War II.
Throughout the highly publicized property battle between Brothers Bar and Grill and the UW System Board of Regents, student organization MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan) said it has slipped through the cracks in university priorities.
The infamous 19th-century German composer Richard Wagner developed the idea of the gesamtkunstwerk (commonly translated as ""total work of art""), a multimedia form of artistic production that, he argued, was more effective and affecting than any of the arts on their own. For Wagner, it wasn't enough for the arts to be siblings: They had to become full-blown kissing-cousins. Of all the venues I've been to in my four years as a Madisonian, it's the Project Lodge that most reminds me of Wagner's incestuous conception of art.
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