Doug Moe: St. Patâ??s parade â?? and its founder â?? still marching on

Itâ??s hard for me to believe it has been 12 years since a UW-Madison student from Minnesota named Katie Oâ??Phelan called me at the newspaper and demanded to know why there wasnâ??t a St. Patrickâ??s Day parade in Madison. She organized one, and though the weather didnâ??t cooperate that first year — it was cold and rainy — the parade up State Street started a tradition that continues today.