Category: Community

MADISON, Wis. – Among other positive changes from the election of a new governor in Wisconsin is the return of respect for state employees and their contributions to the quality of life that state government supports for all citizens.

The University of Wisconsin’s Office of Educational Opportunity approved a plan to bring a new charter school to Madison that would open in 2020, with several contingencies attached.

A developer is proposing to build a six-story hotel that would be the closest to UW-Madison’s 17,230-seat Kohl Center.

Last year’s Athena Award recipient, Emily Auerbach, the director of the UW Odyssey project and odyssey graduate Keena Atkinson, who received one of the business forum scholarships, stopped by NBC15 to talk about the upcoming celebration.

Winter is fully here in Wisconsin Dells, but at Upham Woods preparations are already underway for summer even as the camp operates snowy activities.

After serious deliberation, the DreamUp initiative successfully narrowed down to three proposals aimed at boosting and strengthening Dane County’s middle class.

The $50,000 Community Catalyst grants from the Wisconsin Partnership Program at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health are meant to “improve health equity.” The funds help new ideas off the ground, rather than sustain existing programs.

The state Capitol was the backdrop to a clash of competing protests Saturday afternoon, as both conservative, gun rights advocates and anti-fascist activists organized two opposing protests.

The mentorship program is a year-long program with a new cohort every January. Partnering with UW-Madison and Madison College, it pairs undergraduate women with professional women.

Lawrence Berger, director of the UW’s Institute for Research on Poverty, said in May that the goal is to put about $4,000 in the pockets of Dane County families. UW-Madison asked for creative ideas from throughout the community to build up the county’s middle class and hopefully narrow racial disparities.

Neighborhood House got $2,000 for its program that pairs at-risk kids with UW-Madison college students to learn the advantages of higher education.

Reddy hopes to improve campus safety, housing affordability if elected.

Empowered voices and heavy hearts carried on the chant, “no one is illegal, refugees are people,” while standing on the edge of State Street Tuesday evening.

The UW School of Medicine and Public Health and the Boys & Girls Club of Dane County have launched a program aimed at increasing the number of students from underrepresented backgrounds choosing to enter the health care and health science research fields.

Shannon Barry, director of Domestic Abuse Intervention Services in Madison, said she’s excited that the UW-Madison Law School will early next year launch a new restraining order clinic, made possible by federal Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) funds administered by the state Department of Justice.

Both are freshmen: Avra Reddy, 19, and Matthew Mitnick, 18.

Shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday, the City of Madison’s Clerk’s office announced via Twitter 145,510 voters cast ballots in Madison, representing 92.9 percent of pre-registered voters. The city has not yet released the amount of people who registered at the polls on Election Day.

It is being taught by Rena Kornblum, a dance/movement therapist who … also teaches dance/movement therapy and ballroom dance at UW-Madison.

Noted: The idea spread around the world partly because of a chance meeting in 2010 between Mr. Brooks, an outreach manager for the University of Wisconsin—Madison, and Mr. Bol, who lived in Hudson, Wis. Mr. Bol attended a workshop presented by Mr. Brooks in Hudson. Afterward, they began talking about opportunities in what they called social entrepreneurship.

As the midterm election approaches, Madison early voter turnout is on track to match turnout from the 2016 presidential election, according to data collected by the city clerk’s office.

Hafner, the UW-Madison education professor, heads up the Minority Student Achievement Network, a national coalition of 27 school districts that share strategies for narrowing the achievement gap. That coalition includes districts in Verona, Sun Prairie, Middleton-Cross Plains and Madison.

The grant comes from the Wisconsin Partnership Program at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.

“Every single person has a right to be treated with dignity, kindness and love,” said a Jewish transgender professor from the UW-Madison educational psychology department. “We’ve got to talk, we’ve got to act, we can’t stand still. Madison can only be my home if we can be each others’ homes.”

Honorees include Dr. Tracy M. Downs, a professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

“Representatives of Defendant entered into the upper levels the building without taking precautions to avoid contaminating areas not affected by the Flooding…tracking mud, dirt and other contamination through the building…which greatly increased the costs,”  the lawsuit states.

Plan will analyze opportunities for renovating 400-500 blocks of West Mifflin Street, West Washington Avenue.

The Hispanic Achievement of the Year was presented to Leslie Orrantia, director of community relations at UW-Madison.

“This recognition is an honor. While I’m being recognized, we all know that it takes a village,” Orrantia said. “I have so much thanks and gratitude for my family for their unwavering support and encouragement. Education has been a profound part of my experience and has afforded me a snowballing opportunity. My family really grounded me – they gave me my history and they gave me my purpose and my aspiration.”

The treasures in Stuart Levitan’s Madison in the Sixties are not so much buried as strewn. You never know when you’re going to come across a tidbit that amuses, enlightens, or shocks.