Spring Green residents are banding together after residents found racist posters around town — stuffed in mailboxes and scattered on windshields. The flyers are simple. White sheets of paper headlined White Lives Matter with links to six different racist and anti-Semitic websites and YouTube channels. No photos. No contact information. Just typed out links to […]
Madison In The Sixties: October – November 1968
The Mifflin Community Co-Op is born, Republicans take complete control of state government, and Vince Lombardi comes to town. Just some of what was going on in Madison fifty years ago this month. Madison, November 1968 Bill Winfield, a member of the Green Lantern Eating Co-op, and his friends sign a temporary lease for the […]
UW Campus Vigil Honors Lives Lost at Pittsburgh Synagogue
Hundreds gathered for a vigil on the UW campus Monday night to mourn the eleven people who were killed at a Pittsburgh synagogue last weekend. The speakers at the vigil shared their grief, personal hardships, prayers and messages of hope with the four hundred students and faculty who gathered to support the Jewish community on […]
Biden Calls Election Fight for Country’s ‘Character’...
Former Vice President Joe Biden was on the U-W Madison campus Tuesday, campaigning for Democrats ahead of next Tuesday’s election. Biden joined U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, candidate for Governor Tony Evers and attorney general candidate Josh Kaul at Gordon dining hall. He had sharp words for the Trump Administration, calling this election a battle for […]
Madison in the Sixties: October – Heckling Kennedy
Fifty-two years ago this week, Senator Edward Kennedy came to campus to campaign for the Democratic candidate for Governor, Lt. Gov. Patrick Lucey. Thanks to heckling by the Committee for the End of the War in Vietnam, it did not go well. Madison, October 27, 1966 Six years to the week since Sen. John F. […]
Madison In The Sixties: October – October 1968
A great neighborhood center opens on the east side … the backlash builds to life on campus … and a great man dies. Some of the stories making news fifty years ago this month. Madison, October 1968 October 1—Around 1 a.m., someone cuts the glass of a window of the state headquarters of the Selective […]