Madison Alder Mo Cheeks launched a campaign for mayor last week, taking on Mayor Paul Soglin. Cheeks has represented his diverse west side district, which includes the Allied Drive Neighborhood as well as Nakoma area neighborhoods, since 2013. Former Alder Satya Rhodes Conway has also announced her run for Madison Mayor earlier this spring. Mayor […]
Community Meets to Discuss Campus Rooms Named After KKK-Affiliated Alu...
Around 80 community members met today to discuss whether the UW should rename two rooms at the Memorial Union, named after alumni affiliated with a campus Ku Klux Klan group. The two alumni, Academy Award-winning actor Fredric March and Porter Butts, a famous art historian and first director of the Memorial Union, were members […]
Protesters at Sen. Johnson Madison Office Demand Family Reunification
Protesters gathered at U-S Senator Ron Johnson’s office in Madison today, to express outrage about the treatment of immigrant children at the US-Mexico border. They want the Senator to use his position as Homeland Security committee chair to reunite children separated from their families at the border. The family separations are the result of Republicans’ […]
Several Wisconsin Counties Currently Considering Marijuana Referenda
Voters in Dane County and throughout the state will have a chance to weigh in on marijuana legalization this November. Nearly a dozen counties have approved or are considering referendum questions for the ballot. The Dane County board of Supervisors is voting Thursday on whether to add a referendum question to the November ballot asking […]
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justices Accept Donations from Interest Groups...
Four justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court accepted more than $37,000 dollars in campaign contributions from organizations they sided with in a recent case. The case involved how much money victims can receive in medical malpractice lawsuits. The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s conservative majority accepted donations from health care organizations, insurance groups, and business associations that […]
Invasive Plant Species
On Wildlife Weekly, host Jackie Sandberg explains invasive plant species. Invasive means that they aren’t local plants, typically they come when people or animals travel. There are about four thousand invasive species in the US. Invasive species are ruining ecosystems. They disrupt the water, soil and wildlife already in that area. Here in Madison there […]