Dane County is poised to allocate more than $8.2 million to fund the construction of 465 affordable housing units. Those units will be scattered across the region — with 189 in the city of Madison and 276 in the county’s other communities. For more on the project, and how county officials are approaching affordable housing […]
School funding takes center stage in Jill Underly’s State of Educati...
State Superintendent Jill Underly took office earlier this spring, as COVID cases were on the decline and the potential for a semi-normal fall semester seemed possible. Now, as the state contends with the surging Delta coronavirus variant, those hopes have been dashed. “The past 18 months have tested us in ways we could never have […]
Madison common council greenlights pay increases for city general empl...
Fourteen hundred Madison general municipal employees are lagging behind fire and police employees in wage increases. Yesterday, Madison’s common council passed a resolution to close that gap. The measure — which passed 19-1, with Alder Keith Furman as the lone hold-out — will match General Municipal employees’ pay increase schedule with protective service employees by […]
Madison alder introduces proposal to ban cat declawing
A Madison alder is proposing a new policy that would prohibit cat declawing within city limits. For more, our Producer Jonah Chester spoke with Lindsay Lemmer, the proposal’s lead author and sponsor. PHOTO: Daria Shatova / Unsplash Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate here
‘This is a test for our Democracy’
Last week, former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Michael Gableman sent an email to elections officials across the state telling them to preserve data from the November 2020 election. Gableman is currently leading one of two investigations into the presidential election. The email, which was sent from the personal Gmail account of one ‘John Delta,’ was […]
A race against time: City of Madison collects public input on redistri...
Precise returns from the 2020 U.S. Census came late this year, which means state and local officials have a compressed timeline for redrawing legislative, supervisory and aldermanic maps. That process needs to be completed quickly, as the spring 2022 elections are right around the corner. Ben Zellers, a Madison city planner, says that a compressed […]
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