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Madison City Council Primary Guide: District Twelve
District 12 includes parts of Madison’s East and North Sides, and had been represented by Larry Palm, who has been on the council since 2005. He announced last fall that he wouldn’t seek reelection. This district stretches east and north of East Washington Avenue, and includes Eken Park and Emerson East neighborhoods, as well as […]
Madison City Council Primary Guide: District Three
District Three is on Madison’s far east side and had been represented by Amanda Hall. Hall bought a house outside of the district and had to leave her seat. The district stretches along Milwaukee street and Cottage Grove Road east of Stoughton Road. It also includes the neighborhoods east of I-90. There are three candidates […]
Rodney Lambright II gets deeper into his characters’ heads
Rodney Lambright II uses comics and animation to explore how people relate to each other, to society, and to themselves. He’s adept at looking at the world through the eyes and unfiltered expression of children, with a keen eye for the kinds of thoughts and experiences that kids have when adults aren’t looking. You might […]
Madison In The Sixties: February – February 1969 – The Black S...
50 years ago this week, a symposium sparked the climactic and most successful political protest of the sixties in Madison, the Black Studies Strike. Madison, February 1969 – The Black Studies Strike, part 1 The climactic protest of the decade is sparked by a symposium, as the weeklong conference “The Black Revolution: To What Ends?” […]
Madison In The Sixties: January – The Movement
Students strike for a Black Studies department, Madison hires its first African-American police officer, and teenagers burn a cross on a black family’s front law. Madison in the Sixties – The Movement January 3— Governor Warren Knowles appoints Madison police department’s number two man, inspector Herman Thomas to the State Equal Rights Council. January […]
Madison In The Sixties: January – The Fourth Week Of January, 1969
Students block the halls at West High, an alderman pulls strings to help his father, and the UW adds a course in black culture. Just some of what was going on in Madison fifty years ago this week. Fifty years ago this week, the last week of January. The Madison Police Department should take over […]