Capitol Profiles: Meet Mike Shepherd
One might not expect to hear recitations of Shakespeare in the lobby of Porchlight’s single room occupancy housing, but Mike Shepherd would catch skeptics off guard.
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One might not expect to hear recitations of Shakespeare in the lobby of Porchlight’s single room occupancy housing, but Mike Shepherd would catch skeptics off guard.
As students exhaust themselves with late nights at the library in the midst of midterm season, one UW-Madison undergraduate combats an entirely different source of stress.
As the days grow colder, the increasingly monotonous walk down State Street has been brightened for many by the clear, resounding sound of trumpet music.
Ásgeir gave a captivating performance at the Fredric March Play Circle Theater Saturday night, blending deep, layered synth tracks with more conventional guitar and keyboard sounds to produce the fascinating semi-folk rock, semi-electronic feel that his native island of Iceland seems to champion.
A bleak October afternoon near the eastern corner of Capitol Square is made brighter by a red Badger baseball cap adorning the head of an otherwise unobtrusive newspaper salesman.
“Nickel, dime, quarter, penny,
The first joke is always free at Dynamite Dave’s comedy desk.
A somber look hangs from John Thomas’s face as he leans against a street lamp, selling copies of Street Pulse to pedestrians. I approach him, nervous he will turn down my requests for an interview as multiple people already had, but the notion delights him. A wide smile quickly chases the shadows away from his face as he divulges, with astounding honesty, the details of his past and present circumstances.
With each new blade of green grass that emerges from beneath thin layers of late snowfall, smiles slide onto faces with a bit more ease. However, the return of warm afternoons and whistling robins is a relief too often taken for granted. As sweaters are traded for T-shirts and winter boots for sneakers; as baseball gloves and Frisbees are pulled from storage shelves to relish in the magnificence of the surrounding world, now is also the season to recognize its fragility.
State Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, declared his candidacy for the 6th Congressional District Thursday.
A state Assembly bill that would add political robocalls to the do-not-call list received a public hearing before the Assembly Committee on State Affairs and Government Operations Thursday.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court heard oral arguments from the NAACP and Voces de la Frontera on the State Voter ID law Tuesday.
Dane Deutsch and Brown County Supervisor Dan Robinson announced Thursday their candidacies for the 25th state Senate district and the 88th state Assembly district, respectively.
The Senate Committee on Health and Human Services approved a state Senate bill Monday that would expand the ability of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to require hospitals to administer tests for congenital heart defects in newborns.
State Rep. Christine Sinicki, D-Milwaukee, caused a stir among Wisconsin StateAssembly members Wednesday night when she uploaded a profane Facebook post during Gov. Walker’s 2014 State of the State address.
Senate and Assembly Republicans unveiled a bill Tuesday that would provide special-needs families dissatisfied with their child’s public education with an opportunity to transfer out of their district.
Mary Burke, the only current Democratic candidate in the Wisconsin 2014 gubernatorial race, is scheduled to speak at Union South on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus Wednesday night.
A state amendment that would modify the recall process for elected officials passed the state Assembly Thursday.
Two state Assembly bills that would modify state drunken driving laws, including imposing stricter drunken driving penalties, passed the full state Assembly Tuesday.
As the 2014 Wisconsin gubernatorial election inches closer, Democratic candidate Mary Burke has drawn even with Gov. Scott Walker, according to a poll released Tuesday by the Marquette Law School.