District 19 Alder and Council President Keith Furman has announced that he will not be running for reelection. Alder Furman sat down with WORT Producer Nate Wegehaupt to look back […]
Operating Budget Amendments Propose Expanding CARES Program
It’s budget week for the City of Madison! Increasing funding for the police alternative response line – CARES – is the subject of two separate amendments in the operating budget. Alders are split, though, on how to fund that increase in funding. WORT’s Antonio Barreras Lozano reports.
Alders Propose Amendment to Help Madison Public Market
Budget deliberations kick off tomorrow. The Madison city council has several long meetings in store, where it will decide both its capital and operating budgets over the course of this […]
What’s up with these budgets? City of Madison and Dane County
On today’s show we dig into the proposed budgets of the City of Madison and Dane County. First Dane County Executive Joe Parisi talks us through the big line items […]
Finance Committee Approves Pay Raise for City Employees, Shoots Down R...
The city’s finance committee met for almost six hours last night to discuss the 2023 operating budget, approving a move to raise pay for some city employees while shooting down […]
About 17% Madison’s Planted Medians Would Turn to Concrete; Turf Und...
The city of Madison is looking to alter what’s in about 110 medians around the city, striking planting beds and bushes in those medians and turning most to concrete or […]
