Mayor addresses potential future public market in Madison
By David Jones | Dec. 3, 2012Mayor Paul Soglin discussed a survey seeking community input on a future public market in Madison at a press conference Monday.
Mayor Paul Soglin discussed a survey seeking community input on a future public market in Madison at a press conference Monday.
Palermo’s Pizza reached a settlement agreement Friday with the National Labor Relations Board acknowledging it committed labor law violations, following allegations of labor practice violations from employees.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter of the Climate Action 350 and Madison residents joined in a protest Monday presenting the UW Foundation with more than 1,200 petition signatures requesting the foundation end its investment in fossil fuels to help decrease the threat of climate change.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent letters to several U.S. politicians Monday urging them to cut funding for the National Institutes of Health, an organization that funds animal research at many universities across the country, including the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Incoming state Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said Monday he would like to replace nonpartisan judges on the Government Accountability Board with political appointees, saying the board too often favors Democrats.
Madison police are investigating a theft that occurred at a thrift shop on Williamson Street Friday involving an unidentified female suspect who allegedly stole a 69-year-old woman’s wallet.
A 28-year-old Madison resident called police Saturday after a friend robbed him and another man threatened him with a gun, according to police.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Odyssey Project was featured Sunday on the Big Ten Network’s television show “Forward Motion,” which is produced by the university. The episode focused on the project’s impact on the participants involved in the program.
As the Wisconsin Badgers football team prepares for another visit to Pasadena, University of Wisconsin-Madison students are taking a little more caution in planning what can be an expensive trip to California and buying their tickets to the Rose Bowl.
Three University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professors will discuss the implications for America of Iran possessing a nuclear weapon at an event Tuesday evening.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources closed its third of six wolf-hunting zones around the state Sunday, continuing the trend toward an early end to the inaugural wolf-hunting season.
Madison detectives said sexual assault was most likely the motive in an attack against a University of Wisconsin-Madison female student on East Johnson Street Nov. 24.
The city of Madison will release a survey Monday to gather input from farmers, small business owners and entrepreneurs interested in selling goods in a public market that could be located just outside downtown Madison.
After hours of debate and nearly 40 amendments, the Student Services Finance Committee delayed its vote on the Multicultural Student Coalition’s 2013-’14 budget following a proposal to consider minimally funding the group.
The Search and Screen Committee for the next University of Wisconsin-Madison chancellor met with Madison community members earlier this week to further its outreach efforts to university constituencies, according to the committee’s chair David McDonald.
“Study abroad is a great way to regain a sense of the world outside of this campus,” reads one student’s testimony on the website of UW-Madison’s Study Abroad Office.
Five University of Wisconsin-Madison professors were named as fellows in the American Association for the Advancement of Science Thursday.
Old college friends and pioneers for the single voice Kate Bolick and Michael Cobb spoke about embracing the single lifestyle at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Thursday as part of Humanities Without Boundaries lecture series.
Madison police arrested a Milwaukee man Sunday morning for stealing a woman’s personal belongings outside State Street Brats, according to a police report.