Last spring, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a new law that restricts voting by mail, limits the use of outside money to assist in election administration, restricts voter registration drives and grants partisan election observers broader powers to challenge election results. A coalition of civic groups filed suit, saying the bill was politically motivated and […]
The Yahara CLEAN Compact In Action
Madison’s trademark lakes have suffered in recent years. Swimmers have largely abandoned once-popular beaches, due to thick films of poisonous turquoise slime caused by blooms of blue-green algae. The main culprit is phosphorus — a nutrient that runs into the lakes and promotes algae growth. Back in 2012, a public private partnership called the Clean […]
The Effects of Social Media on Kids
According to Facebook’s own internal research, teenage girls who used Facebook’s Instagram app, suffered from increased concerns about their body image. Internal corporate presentations leaked to the Wall Street Journal stated that “We make body image issues worse in one in three teen girls” and “Thirty two percent of teen girls said that when they […]
City of Madison 2022 Budget Brief
In October of 2020, at the peak of the coronavirus pandemic, the City of Madison, like governments everywhere, braced for the worst. With the globe in lockdown, travel, tourism and parking revenues tanked,and new construction tailed off, depriving the city of the only sources of revenue over which it had any control. Fast forward to […]
Police Reform Must Happen First at the Community Level
The latest talks about federal police reform in Congress have gone exactly nowhere. U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) and U.S. Representative Karen Bass (D-CA) had led the effort to, among other things, eliminate qualified immunity for police. But the federal reform measures hit a roadblock with U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC). Talks collapsed last month, […]
Representable Crowdsources “Communities of Interest”
Representable is trying to save democracy by crowd-sourcing information about where people live. Representable’s Michaela Daniel tells us more. Did you enjoy this story? Your funding makes great, local journalism like this possible. Donate here
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