"The way that county government is set up, there's not one person in charge of all these different aspects of the criminal justice system," Parisi said. "We really need cooperation."
Welsh describes her top issues for the 7th District as affordable housing, mental health and crisis intervention, protecting parks and sustaining natural resources.
The county has been leading an effort involving 17 municipalities to assess housing efforts and identify priorities for collaboration.
The proposed changes include a lower-density land use designation for the Hill Farms Pool and removing proactive zoning proposals for two other areas.
A proposed resolution also requests changes to keep police from interfering with lawful exercise of free speech and to communicate with protesters and affected elected officials.
Cinnaire Solutions is moving to buy and improve the 60-unit Rethke Terrace project for homeless singles and veterans and 45-unit Tree Lane Apartments for homeless families for roughly $7.5 million.
Ald. Nikki Conklin on Monday announced that the next version of the controversial draft West Area Plan will shift a proposed bike path onto city streets.
"I'm in it for as long as it takes," UW graduate student Halsey Hazzard said.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protesting the Israel-Hamas war gather at Library Mall on campus at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wis., Monday, April 29, 2024.
The council wans to hear about the services residents value and vision for the future, but some say meetings seem more about building support for a referendum to raise property taxes.
With $118 million in federal funding in place, construction on the second BRT route is expected to begin in 2026.
A joint letter signed by Dane County supervisors, state Representatives and nonprofit leaders claimed other women abused by the North Side councilman are afraid to speak out.
Vice President Kamala Harris meets with nursing home workers in La Crosse to discuss new federal requirements for staffing and compensation.
Over the last two decades, misconduct and behavioral issues have embroiled Council members and other officials. But a way to properly handle them has been elusive.
Occupy Madison is seeking to locate tiny huts, sales of food and related goods, and light manufacturing of wooden tiny houses on an industrial site on the Far East Side.
'We're really going to build this thing': With city backing, Lake Monona waterfront changes incoming
Thanks to a final approval of the Lake Monona Waterfront Master Plan by the City Council Tuesday, backers of the project are now looking to new construction and an ambitious fundraising campaign.
North Side Ald. Charles Myadze, who has been accused of abuse by two women, attended Tuesday night's council meeting remotely.
Miles is among the longest-serving board members, having joined the board in 2006.
"Whenever I drive through that area, I see these new buildings that are going in and I think of all those families," Richard Harris said of those displaced from the Triangle in the 1960s. "They didn’t get anything.”
Despite differences, the city and a development team are willing to work to resolve issues and get a Maurer's Urban Market opened in late 2024 or early 2025.
Council President Jael Currie called embattled Ald. Charles Myadze denial of abuse allegations "deeply disappointing."
The six-vote gap narrowed to five, but Cottage Grove Trustee David Peterson nevertheless defeated Monona Grove School Board President Loreen Gage.
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"Each team brings a different perspective and set of strengths," said Matt Wachter, director of planning, community and economic development.
The Triangle, bounded by South Park and Regent streets and West Washington Avenue, was the core of the multi-ethnic Greenbush neighborhood, which was razed in the 1960s.
If city delivers needed funding, Maurer's Urban Market could open in late 2024 or early 2025 in a $42 million mixed-use project at 815 Cedar St. next to a Pick 'N Save.
The recount will begin at 9:15 a.m. in Room 354 of the City-County Building, 210 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., in Madison.
The new facility is part of an effort to provide job training and career opportunities, child care and affordable housing resources all under one roof.
Alyssa Mahaffay, a family law attorney, was elected Monona’s municipal judge Tuesday in a race with no names on the ballot and three registered write-in candidates.
Voters wore their patriotism on their puffer coat sleeves, red faces and blue fingertips striking against the white nightmare rising beneath their boots.
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