Author: jplucas

SAN FRANCISCO � After nearly three months in limbo, stranded and waiting for a U.S. security clearance in Canada, San Francisco State Arabic professor Mohammad Ramadan Hassan Salama finally returned to his classroom Wednesday.

Salama, whose wife and two children are American citizens, has a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Wisconsin.

Halloween celebrations on State Street are going on as planned, but with a few changes from year’s past.

Students have mixed feelings about the new guidelines, but business owners are breathing a sigh of relief.

MADISON, Wis. — Madison’s alcohol policy coordinator presented a proposal Wednesday night that would freeze new liquor licenses in downtown Madison.The targeted area extends from Blair Street, east of the Capitol and west to Lake Street, which is where one-third of all of the city’s alcohol licenses are concentrated.

It’s official, if you want to celebrate Halloween on Madison’s State Street this year, it’ll cost you.
The city council passed a new plan for managing the massive celebration Tuesday night.

The city of Madison will charge a five dollar admission fee for access to the Halloween party on State Street and fence off the area.�  The City Council also decided Tuesday that the money raised will be used to offset taxpayer costs.� 

MADISON, Wis. — The city of Madison’s Halloween plan has been finalized after a year of planning and many meetings in the past few months between city leaders, police and fire departments, business owners and students

The Madison City Council tonight should wholeheartedly adopt Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s plan to produce a safer and less costly Halloween bash Downtown.

Three degrees from UW-Madison – bachelor’s in journalism, bachelor’s in Spanish education and English as a second language, master’s in curriculum and instruction. Purusing doctorate in educational policy studies beginning this fall.

A Madison man accused of beating up a woman on Langdon Street makes his first court appearance.
Paul Curtis Aud is accused of following a woman home, and then attacking the 20 year old as she entered her apartment last month.

The newly-merged University of Wisconsin Colleges and UW Extension are perfectly positioned to complement the seamless life-learning system this state needs to compete on the highest levels around the world.

Carol Wehrmann is part of a fourth generation of Wehrmanns and has been with the shop since she graduated in 1976 with an anthropology degree from UW-Madison.

LaMarr Billups, senior special assistant to UW-Madison Chancellor John Wiley and a member of the ALRC, said the university is pleased with Plant’s work. In particular, Plant has brought a much more data-driven approach to the committee, Billups said.