By way of a 13-6 vote, the City Council passed an ordinance amendment Tuesday night that regulates the sale of secondhand textbooks.'
Stocco should have gone in the late rounds, writes Sports Editor Zach Kukkonen.'
More than two thousand Madison residents gathered at the Capitol Tuesday to celebrate International Workers' Day and voice their support for immigrant workers' rights. '
Professional wrestling is such a curious phenomenon—it's loaded to the gills with testosterone, silicone and displays of loudly macho, presumably alpha-male behavior—yet it's really nothing more than masculine soap opera. Both share the same production hallmarks of hastily scripted, histrionic melodrama with lots of feuds and filler, exploiting the elements most attractive to their respective demographics.
Looking at The Playhouse stage for The Madison Repertory Theatre's production of ""Home,"" one would think that the play is about carpenters or lumberjacks. The setting is a farm home in Crossroads, N.C. and, like a ship, everything is made with large planks of wood. A ship is a good allusion for this play, which centers around Cephus Miles (Patrick Sims), a man who spends a good chunk of his life in transit. Luckily for director Ron OJ Parsons, playwright Samm-Art Williams and the audience, he pauses long enough to tell us about what he is thinking.
Global climate control continues to be a predominant social issue in national politics. Wisconsin policy makers have the chance to make a change and be on the forefront of groundbreaking emissions reduction legislation, and we encourage all Wisconsin lawm'
After a season in which the UW football team played only one game at home that did not start at 11 a.m., school officials announced Tuesday that the Badgers will play at least one home game in primetime.'
\Picture a boxing ring. The air is so damp you can almost sip it from a spoon. In one corner, there's a drunk pirate, and in the other, there's a ferocious lion. Who would win in a fight?"" writes Tarah in this week's The Taraminator.'
People today are no longer satisfied with working hard, supporting their families or living a normal life, but instead yearn for wealth and fame.'
Higher salaries would give more incentive for Madison's most dynamic minds to serve on City Council.'
By Ben Breiner
Not many people are able to say that they walked onto a Division I college softball team, started every single game of their college career and set two program records. However, Wisconsin's senior center fielder Samantha Polito most certainly can. '
On Oct. 18, 1967, more than 500 UW-Madison students staged a sit-in in Ingraham Hall because they were disgusted that the Dow Chemical Company—the main producer of a chemical liquid used in warfare—was recruiting on campus.
The mayor's obsession with streetcars could derail Transport 2020.'
Hold your horses Badger fans. Before you start freaking out about another change in the student ticket process, take a second and understand the pros and the cons of the new plan.
In the aftermath of the Virginia Tech massacre, the spotlight has been trained once more on people who for some reason or another are isolated from the rest of society. '
A strong-armed robbery occurred early Friday morning at 100 N. Mills Street, according to a Madison Police report. '
The ""father of stem cell research,"" UW-Madison professor James Thomson, has agreed to operate a research lab at the University of California-Santa Barbara, according to the Wisconsin Technology Network.'
The Recording Industry Association of America's lawsuits against UW System students require university employees to devote time and money to processing complaints without reimbursement from the RIAA, according to Brian Rust, UW-Madison Department of Information Technology communications director.
As gas prices soar in Madison, state legislators from across the state continue to fight over what action should be taken to help Wisconsin consumers. '
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