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You're not going crazy. We screwed up. We published last week's crossword puzzle in this week's Isthmus. We've heard your cries, we feel your pain, and we want to make it right. Here is the correct puzzle and the answers to last week's puzzle. Read more
AMY STOCKLEIN
School of hard nots
Before being sworn into office, eight new members of the Common Council get a crash course on Robert’s Rules of Order and the state’s and city’s ethics rules. Apply the “smell test,” they are told, and say goodbye to free beers. Read more
Apr 25, 2019
David Michael Miller
High hopes
For decades, utility companies have mostly gotten what they want from the state’s Public Service Commission. But opponents to a massive powerline proposed through the scenic Driftless Area are feeling something unusual — hope. Read more
Apr 25, 2019
Carolyn Fath Ashby
Food anxiety
As developers eye Park Street corridor, residents worry that their neighborhood will become a food desert. Read more
Apr 25, 2019
Nicola Ferrarese
Beer saves the day!
Breweries don’t just supply a community with beer. They create jobs, provide a main street with renewed vitality and create an atmosphere where people want to be. That’s why communities are working to help small breweries open in their towns. Read more
Apr 25, 2019
Christopher Taylor
Double duty
Yeah, there’s bingo and sheepshead and trivia night. There are also yoga classes, tech talks, spin classes and meat pop-ups bringing people together at today’s craft breweries. Read more
Apr 25, 2019
Madweek for Apr. 25, 2019
The Dane County landfill is filling up fast, a Wisconsin woman pleads guilty to supporting ISIS, and a federal lawsuit alleges the state makes college students jump through extra hoops in order to vote. It’s been a Madweek. Read more
Apr 25, 2019
Kori Feener
Does the fire still Bern?
Bernie Sanders is picking up his 2020 campaign for president right where he left off his 2016 one. But will his message resonate with enough voters to secure the Democratic nomination? Read more
Apr 18, 2019
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James Heimer
Risk averse
UW Health and School of Medicine and Public Health need a “major culture change” if they’re going to move their world class research into drugs and treatments that will save lives, a recent study argues. Read more
Apr 18, 2019
5:01 AM
Mark Norman
Not church, but gospel
At Burbie’s Gospel Brunches, an all-star band serves up traditional gospel tunes to warm the soul. It’s not church, but gospel. Read more
Apr 18, 2019
5:00 AM
CUB plots a renaissance
In the mid-’80s, the state’s Citizen Utility Board had 100,000 members; today it has only about 2,000. But as it turns 40 and has a new director, the group embarks on a campaign to reinvent itself. Read more
Apr 18, 2019
5:00 AM
Madweek for Apr. 18, 2019
What a Madweek indeed: Governor Tony Evers won’t say whether he felt the Bern or if he was with her, Wisconsin’s higher education spending suffered the fourth largest decrease in the country and Satya Rhodes-Conway is sworn in as Madison mayor. Read more
Apr 18, 2019
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Kori Feener
Apr 18, 2019
5:00 AM
Trending
Robin Vos: man of principle
According to the latest poll, 70 percent of Wisconsin residents want the state to take federal money to expand Medicaid eligibility. But the Assembly speaker is going to “lead” in a different direction. Read more
High hopes
For decades, utility companies have mostly gotten what they want from the state’s Public Service Commission. But opponents to a massive powerline proposed through the scenic Driftless Area are feeling something unusual — hope. Read more
Beer saves the day!
Breweries don’t just supply a community with beer. They create jobs, provide a main street with renewed vitality and create an atmosphere where people want to be. That’s why communities are working to help small breweries open in their towns. Read more
Keep cops in high schools
A small but vocal minority wants to remove police officers from Madison high schools. Read more
Little virtues
Madison’s Bartaco is the 20th location for the mostly eastern seaboard-focused chain, and the first in Wisconsin. This SoCal/Baja Mexican small plate concept seems to be working for the west side. Read more
