President Trump’s love/hate relationship with Twitter took another turn last week. On May 21, Twitter fact-checked two of Trump’s tweets, including one where the President claimed vote-by-mail would result in widespread voter fraud. Twitter marked the tweet as “misleading.” After claiming he would shut down the social media outlet, two days later, Trump had signed […]
Job Hunting In a Pandemic
With so much of the world shut down during the coronavirus pandemic, it’s not the greatest time to go looking for a job, especially for the class of 2020 who may be graduating into a recession. Unemployment is high, many employers have slowed or ceased their operations and many traditional ways of networking or accessing […]
After a Peaceful Protest, Chaos
Shortly after Madison’s May 30th protests against the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd ended, all hell broke loose: smashed windows, tear gas and pepper spray, people deliberately run down by vehicles, a police car set on fire. Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes Conway has declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew from 9:30 […]
Pandemics Spur Civic Innovation
In 1793, a Yellow Fever outbreak in Philadelphia led to the creation of the city’s first garbage collection service. In 1853, the New York City Board of Health authorized the creation of a reservoir system, and New York’s Central Park, in response to a cholera epidemic. And here in Wisconsin, a 1909 typhoid surge led […]
Madison Gets Serious About Historic Preservation
Humans have inhabited the area where Madison now sits for at least 12,000 years. Over a thousand years ago, the Woodland Culture people built the highest density of effigy mounds of anywhere on the globe. By 1800, the area had become the homeland of the Ho-Chunk, who called the area Taychopera, which means “land of […]
Who Owns Outer Space?
Most science fiction espouses one of two very different visions of the future. In the utopian visions of classic “golden age” sci-fi, humanity grows wiser over the years to come, with social, political and economic advances keeping pace with technological change. In the dystopian vein of more recent sci-fi, humanity may still have cooler tech, […]
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