Category: Community

The first wave of invitations to fill out the census is being sent out in mid-March, but a lot of UW-Madison students have left the city.

“This is my job. My life is here,” said the owner of the Luang Probang Lao and Thai food cart near State Street. “It’s going to be slow for us. But if it’s too slow, we will close for a little bit. We will come back when everything gets better.”

Ho-Chunk Gaming Madison’s expansion seeks to provide the space for Ho-Chunk people to tell their own story with their own voice in order to create a better understanding of their people among those who attend the facility, explained the executive manager and Ho-Chunk Nation member, Dan Brown.

The school’s Law and Entrepreneurship Clinic received $50,000 this year as one of nine grant recipients through the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation’s Entrepreneurship Support Program, according to a press release. WEDC allocated $432,000 to activities assisting business owners in underserved communities.

For all of her career accomplishments, Pember, a member of the Red Cliff Band of Wisconsin Ojibwe, can still remember way back in 1985 when she was the first Native woman to graduate from the UW–Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication (or, as faculty and alumni call it, the J-School).

Potential route restructure of Routes 81, 82 late night service.

University of Wisconsin-Madison Sophomore Elena Haasl would like to be the next person elected to serve District 5 on the Dane County Board of Supervisors.

Census starts in March, students could submit responses through paper, phone or online.

City has official jurisdiction to prohibit the operation of Personal Delivery Devices, important measure for the future, City Attorney says.

Eighteen-year-old Max Prestigiacomo will serve as Madison’s Common Council District 8 alder after the upcoming April election.

Eighteen-year-old Max Prestigiacomo will officially take over as Madison’s Common Council District 8 alder.

Andrea Ruppar, an assistant professor in special education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, urged board members not approve the purchase, saying the Madison Metropolitan School District has been becoming less inclusive for students with disabilities over the years.

Recently, my friend Rebecca, a University of Wisconsin graduate and fellow football fan, invited me to Madison for a football weekend, Big 10-style.

Max Prestigiacomo, 18, is a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. On top of being a full-time student, majoring in political science and history, he’s taking on another major task: He’s running for City Council.

DreamUp WI, which seeks to reduce racial, ethnic, and geographic economic disparities in the Dane County, has announced seven semi-finalists in the second year of a local competition. The Alliance for the American Dream Challenge looks to increase the net incomes of 10,000 Dane County families by 10 percent by 2022.

For the next five months, University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student Sally Rohrer will represent the constituents of District 8 as interim alder.

UW sustainability analyst Alex Frank contributed to the foundation of UW’s first Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System report, better known as the STARS report.

The position of Langdon Street Resource Officer will be removed from the Madison Police Department as a result of ongoing understaffing and underfunding, according to current Langdon Street Officer Damion Figueroa.

The event is put on by the Minority Student Achievement Network (MSAN), and sponsored by the University of Wisconsin.

Sally Rohrer, a UW student, will fill spot until election, has background in policy making, says students should be involved in decisions affecting them.

During the celebration, Madison School Board President Gloria Reyes and Derek Johnson, of UW-Madison’s Diversity Affairs Office, will receive awards for their community service. Both grew up in the Darbo-Worthington Neighborhood, home to Mentoring Positives.

Accepted applicant to serve out remainder of Avra Reddy’s city council term.

From now until Friday, you can find street artist Melanie Stimmell VanLatum inside the Discovery Building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, painting a science-themed mural on one of the first-floor walls.

Cycropia Aerial Arts will perform and there will be spoken word from Dequandray White, a member of the 10th cohort of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s First Wave hip-hop learning community.

Robin Mwai pulls a key fob out of her handbag and swipes it across the Trek BCycle docking station on the Capitol Square to unlock an electric-assist bicycle. Mwai isn’t planning a long ride, just a quick pedal back to campus.

He has undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The UW-Madison Police Department is wishing Koval the best, writing in a Facebook post, “Thank you for your tireless work to keep our community safe, and for your great partnership with UWPD.?”

Reddy, a student at the University of Wisconsin, wanted to bring student voices to the city council table as the alder for a district that covers most of UW’s campus.