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Carolyn Fath Ashby
“Visible and invisible”
The recently formed Disability Rights Caucus of the Democratic Party wants people with disabilities to be heard in the democratic process. Read more
Sharon Vanorny
Technicality trouble
Freelance journalist Steven Potter attempted to confirm Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes graduation status in early July. Barnes came clean to Isthmus a few weeks later. Read more
Aug 13, 2019
Sarah Maughan
Bigger than one person
Mike Hernandez insisted he’d found his dream job and would retire as principal at East High. But he’s now taking an administrative job in the district’s central office, for a chance to help influence school policy citywide. Read more
Aug 8, 2019
Rettler Corporation
Hail Mary passes
Edgewood wants to cancel its master plan in order to hold home games on its athletic field. Ald. Tag Evers responds with proposed zoning change that would require city approval to build stadiums and install lighting and amplified sound. Read more
Aug 8, 2019
Rettler Corporation
Edgewood takes another route to host stadium games
In an effort to host athletic games, Edgewood is asking Madison to terminate its master plan. The school argues that the restrictions are a violation of their religious freedoms. Read more
Aug 2, 2019
City of Madison
More than just pretty buildings
Madison is drafting a preservation plan that would prioritize preserving community history, not just pretty buildings. Read more
Aug 1, 2019
Political immunity
With measles cases on the rise, state Rep. Gordon Hintz is trying to limit the exemptions that parents use to keep from vaccinating their children. But the proposal is unlikely to go anywhere this session. Read more
Aug 1, 2019
Steven Potter
Support staff
P.O.W.E.R.S. is a new Madison group that supports those having abortions and offers info on options from carrying a pregnancy to term to ending a pregnancy. It’s a new option for those with no personal support network. Read more
Aug 1, 2019
5:00 AM
Mary Kay Baum
Trail connection
The proposed Driftless Trail would connect Blue Mound, Tower Hill and Governor Dodge state parks, the cliffs and gorges of the Ridgeway Pine Relict State Natural Area and the trout streams of the Lower Wisconsin State Riverway. Read more
Jul 25, 2019
5:00 AM
Getty Images
Rules of the road
Scooters are either a salvation for urban transportation or a curse on city streets and sidewalks. Madison officials hope a scooter pilot project in Milwaukee can offer some guidance for how to regulate them here. Read more
Jul 25, 2019
5:00 AM
Downtown businesses close due to MGE fire, power outages
No power meant forced closures for many downtown Madison businesses. Somehow the bargain event of the season on State Street — Maxwell Street Days — was not affected. Read more
Jul 19, 2019
11:44 AM
Holly Henschen
Supporting refugees
On Friday, Madisonians protested both the conditions in facilities where asylum seekers are being held and a national raid on undocumented immigrants set to begin on Sunday. The protest coincided with dozens around the country. Read more
Jul 13, 2019
12:26 PM
Greg Anderson
Wisconsin Examiner launches
The Newsroom, a nonprofit venture working to increase coverage of state government, will launch its 11th state publication: The Wisconsin Examiner Read more
Jul 11, 2019
8:28 PM
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Inking outside the lines
Two new tattoo shops in Madison join the growing scene in Dane County. Read more
The future of Token Creek
The Token Creek Music Festival is held on the 110-acre property owned by founders Rose Mary and John Harbison that backs up against Token Creek. The founders would like to see the property preserved as a single parcel. Read more
Where goes the neighborhood?
In the early 1960s, Madison destroyed much of the Greenbush neighborhood, dislocating 1,150 people. Now the city is eyeing redevelopment of the so-called Triangle. Will it get it right this time? Read more
Hidden in plain sight
There are few facilities like this anywhere in the country, and even fewer that never charge admission. So why don’t more people take advantage of the films shown by Cinematheque? Read more
Making shit up
As two recent decisions demonstrate, the conservatives on the state’s highest court are not applying the law as it is written, but as they wish it to be. Read more
