CITY NEWS

Madison expands affordable homeownership with ‘missing middle’ housing

By Grace Williams | Feb. 10

The City of Madison celebrates two new affordable homes in the Owl Creek neighborhood, aimed at expanding affordable housing options for first-time homeowners. 

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UW graduate preserves Porta Bella in new film project

By Zoey Jiang | Feb. 5

Broden McCune is writing and directing a film primarily set in Porta Bella, one of Madison’s oldest restaurants, before its likely closure.

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CITY NEWS

Madison seed library sprouts community gardening efforts

By Jane Dardik | Feb. 5

Madison Public Library’s Seed Library distributes free native prairie and garden seeds each winter and spring, offering roughly 50,000 seed packets annually to community members across eight library branches.

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‘I would have done the same’: Nurses protest Alex Pretti’s death at the Capitol

By Sonia Bendre and Riley Nee | Feb. 3

Around 150 nurses and medical professionals marched around the Capitol Friday in protest of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s actions in Minnesota.

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CITY NEWS

What to know about major construction changes coming to Regent Street in 2027

By Ted Hyngstrom | Feb. 3

In a public information meeting Jan. 26, public officials presented proposal updates for the planned Regent Street Reconstruction project.

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New Imagination Center to fill resource gaps on Madison’s northeast side

By Madison Luick | Jan. 30

Madison Public Library will open The Imagination Center at Reindahl Park in September, its first branch in a public park, with $320,000 of Madison’s Executive Budget.

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‘Alex could’ve been any one of us’: Large crowd protests ICE violence in Minnesota

By Jake Wesson , Peter Fishman and Drew Wesson | Jan. 27

Despite temperatures in the single digits, hundreds of protestors rallied at the Wisconsin State Capitol on Sunday amid a surge in federal immigration enforcement in Minnesota.

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CITY NEWS

Advocacy groups outraged after UW Health pauses gender-affirmative care for minors

By Alaina Walsh | Jan. 26

UW Health and Children’s Wisconsin paused gender affirming care for patients under 18 following recent federal actions, a decision that has prompted protests in Madison and raised concerns among transgender advocates, parents and patients.

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CITY NEWS

Madison housing agency to build more than 400 low-income rental homes after city council approves $14 million in funding

By Alexa Cattouse | Jan. 26

Madison’s city council approved over $14 million in funding in December to help support Affordable Rental Housing Development’s plans.

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CITY NEWS

Your Madison April 7 election preview

By Lauren Eno | Jan. 22

Madison voters will decide contested City Council races in Districts 8, 14 and 20 and Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education races. Candidate priorities include affordable housing, public education and representation.

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CITY NEWS

Shark Tank-funded Snow Scholars perseveres through growing pains

By Jane Dardik | Jan. 22

Shark Tank’s Mark Cuban and Snow Scholars Investor told the Cardinal in an interview the negative comments made about Snow Scholars are “ridiculous and slanderous.”

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CITY NEWS

UW sophomore Ellen Zhang launches Common Council candidacy pushing for buses, sanctuary cities

By Alexa Cattouse | Dec. 10

Zhang is the second candidate to announce her campaign announcement in the open race for the student seat on the Common Council. 

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CITY NEWS

No Contract, No Coffee: State Street Starbucks workers join national strike

By Wilder Gervais | Dec. 9

U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan and community members joined Starbucks workers this weekend as a part of the union’s nationwide Red Cup Rebellion strike.

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CITY NEWS

Middleton official says messaging key to city’s sustainability success

By Elizabeth Baumberger | Dec. 8

City of Middleton Sustainability Coordinator Kelly Hilyard told The Daily Cardinal effective science communications is critical to getting a community to participate in sustainable projects.

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Snowstorm prompts second Small Business Saturday

By Zoey Jiang | Dec. 4

Independent retailers in Dane County plan for Small Business Saturday ‘Version 2’ after southern Wisconsin snowstorm impedes on original date.

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State Street businesses prepare for slower business, colder weather

By Addison Balogh | Dec. 4

State Street businesses are getting ready for the slower winter season.

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Abbott acquires Madison-based Exact Sciences in health care deal

By Haellie Opp | Dec. 1

Exact Sciences will become the diagnostic wing of Chicago pharmaceutical company Abbott in the largest health care transaction of the last two years.