Ald. David Ahrens, District 15, and Ald. Mark Clear, District 19, announced Wednesday plans to reform city government and give more power to Common Council and the council president.
The UW-Madison Police Department will not file any criminal or hate crime charges against the student who was the aggressor in the Saturday Sellery Residence Hall altercation, according to UWPD Public Information Officer Marc Lovicott. Lovicott said there is “no evidence that racial discrimination” played a role in the altercation between the UW-Madison student Matthew Hseih and several other residents in Sellery Hall. In an interview earlier in the week, one of the students who reported the incident to the university, freshman Synovia Knox, said Hseih did insult her with hateful language directed toward her class and race. UWPD cited the student with disorderly conduct and underage possession of alcohol earlier in the week.
Madison Common Council approved a revised plan for Capitol Square Tuesday night after state officials denied a provision in January that would have built a bike lane on East Mifflin Street. The plan focused on general maintenance of the Capitol Square.
The UW System selected Gary Bennett, chief of staff for state Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, to lead an agency that will explore opening new charter schools in Madison and Milwaukee. Starting April 1, Bennett will head the Office of Educational Opportunity and will also be a special assistant to UW System President Ray Cross.
Tamara Grigsby, the recently appointed director of the new Dane County Department of Equity and Inclusion, died unexpectedly this week from health complications.
The Madison Police Department will be increasing its enforcement of impaired driving offenses in anticipation of St. Patrick’s Day weekend, according to a City of Madison news release.
A sanitary sewer blockage caused the discharge of untreated wastewater onto the street and into nearby storm inlets in West Madison Friday, according to a City of Madison release.
A fire that started early Monday morning out on the 800 block of Stewart Street is under investigation, according to a City of Madison Fire Department release.
Sophomore Sarah Metropulos’ daily tasks reflect those of a typical legislative employee—she works in the Capitol, attends caucus meetings and writes letters to constituents. There is one difference, however.
Senators, congressmen and local representatives throughout Wisconsin and the nation call UW-Madison their alma mater. But while the campus is popularly known for the public servants who started here, today’s students also represent themselves in government.
Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced Thursday he will appoint Carlos Pabellón as the new Dane County Department of Administration director.
City, county and state officials are locked in a battle over whether more should have been done to prevent the closing of Madison’s Oscar Mayer plant last year. Legislative Democrats and city officials have pointed the finger at the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation and the state’s chamber of commerce, saying both entities knew Kraft-Heinz was considering shuttering the east Madison facility but didn’t do enough to keep the company in the Badger State. But Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, countered Tuesday by announcing that he was submitting open records requests to determine if Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and Dane County Executive Joe Parisi could have prevented Oscar Mayer’s departure. "If the Mayor did have advance knowledge of changes at the Madison location as he has suggested, the city’s residents deserve an explanation as to why no action was taken,” Fitzgerald said in the statement. “His misguided attempts to shift blame onto WEDC or other state business groups are no more than a smokescreen to disguise his office’s culpability.” Fitzgerald added that since the Oscar Mayer facility was located in Madison, the closure happened “under Mayor Soglin’s watch.” Soglin held a press conference Thursday in which he claimed the Walker administration has caused Wisconsin’s economic performance to lag.
City officials from several departments announced Thursday the first Unpaid Ticket Resolution Day, where citizens will have the opportunity to resolve unpaid citation fines this Sunday. Madison Police Department Chief Mike Koval originally announced the initiative on his blog Tuesday and expanded on it during a Thursday press conference.
Two Chicago-based companies appeared before the City of Madison Board of Estimates Wednesday evening to pitch their development ideas for the Judge Doyle Square project. Beilter Real Estate Services and Vermillion Enterprises, LLC both proposed hotels and retail centers for the area, which includes two blocks of land in between Monona Terrace and Capitol Square.
Davonte King, 21, turned himself in Tuesday after the Madison Police Department had spent a month looking for a suspect related to shots fired Feb.
An Illinois developer is planning a proposal for a new 4-6 story apartment building on the northwest corner of Broom Street and West Washington Avenue.
Madison police arrested Darrick R. Thompson, 21, for shooting a 20-year-old man in the leg Monday, according to an incident report. The Violent Crimes Unit investigated the south-side shooting after shots were reported and the victim showed up at the hospital with a gun wound around 12:30 p.m.
The City of Madison Forestry Section has confirmed multiple new cases of emerald ash borer, according to a release.
A man was hospitalized after his arm was slashed with a box cutter early Sunday morning during a disturbance at a bar on Madison’s west side, according to a Madison Police Department incident report.
An aggregation of the Madison Police Department’s annual reports from 2005-’14 shows the total number of arrests has dropped across every racial demographic, with a deepening disparity between black and white arrests. Total arrests dropped from 19,730 in 2005 to 9,726 in 2014, roughly a 50 percent drop.
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