After developer LZ Ventures of Madison completes the new Porchlight building, it plans to demolish Porchlight’s existing facility at 306 N. Brooks St., near UW-Madison, and replace it with a 15-story, 189-unit student housing project.
Murtaza, who earned his medical degree from Aga Khan University Medical College in Pakistan and a doctorate in medical science at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute at the University of Cambridge, is a cancer researcher and an associate professor in the Department of Surgery at the school. Since 2021, he has served as the associate director of the center.
“Respectfully, these are makeweight arguments designed to deflect attention from the Biden/DNC plan to run out the clock, which has been discernible since at least early last week,” University of Wisconsin Law School Dean Daniel Tokaji wrote on an election blog hosted by fellow respected expert Rick Hasen, a law professor at UCLA.
The debate over how to balance environmental concerns and property rights is becoming more common, said Max Besbris, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who specializes in housing and climate change. “There’s a very real anxiety” over best practices, he said, especially since a house is the biggest purchase many people will ever make.
University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Yi Fuxian said the censuses China carries out every 10 years are “seriously overestimated” in an effort to match official estimates. The annual data should be corrected with the census data, he said.
UW-Madison and UW-Milwaukee were asked to provide housing, but the RNC withdrew those requests.
