A 25 year-old Madison man is in custody after leading UW police on a chase early Wednesday morning.
Cops say Matthew Hale didn’t stop for a red light at University Avenue and Lake Street.
When an officer tried to pull him over, authorities say Hale drove through another red light, and sped up.
Police say Hale ended-up going the wrong way on West Johnson Street.
Hale eventually crashed.
Could there be a finer compliment for a civil rights lawyer than that paid the late Percy Julian Jr. by his friend and fellow attorney Jeff Scott Olson?
“He started out during the time of Martin Luther King Jr. and was one of the people who made the civil rights laws passed in the King era real tools for justice, especially for African-Americans,” Olson said after Julian died Sunday at age 67.
The city of Madison has ticketed 1,300 property owners — starting at $109 — this winter for not clearing snow and ice from the sidewalks in front of their properties, but not the owner of 325 W. Johnson St., where this ankle-bending sheet of ice was photographed Tuesday afternoon.
The owner? The city. The address on a busy stretch off State Street is the home of Fire Department Administration.
Among the Community Comments:
“All the sidewalks on campus are an icy mess. Why doesn’t the city ticket UW and all the landlords in that area of town?”
“The UW campus sidewalks are horrible in many places, but the city cannot touch the UW. And these are arguably some of the most highly used sidewalks in the city.”
Lester Hunt wasn’t expecting hate mail after he sent out an e-mail last week announcing a talk called “Don’t Vote! Why Voting Is Immoral,” being held tonight on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
To his surprise, hostile responses started filling his inbox. “Don’t send me this junk,” demanded one person. Another complained, “It is because of a democracy that loopy liberals such as yourselves can have such ridiculous beliefs and morals.”
Some even used obscenities to describe their feelings about the guest speaker, feminist author and anarchist Wendy McElroy, who argues that to vote to endorse a corrupt system and its values.
Posters for tonight’s event were torn down and ripped up.
Hereâ??s further grist for the mill for anyone deconstructing how Senator Hillary Clinton lost so many states to Senator Barack Obama.
The story is starting to sound the same everywhere: slow start and outspent, if not out-organized. These are the details from Wisconsin, as culled by Ken Goldstein, director of the Wisconsin Advertising Project, which analyzes political advertising across the country.
MADISON, Wis. â?? How could you do it?
The question dogs Christopher Ochoa. It always will.
In 1988, Mr. Ochoa, then a naive 22-year-old, confessed to a rape and murder he didn’t commit, and accused an innocent friend, Richard Danziger, of the same crime to avoid the death penalty.
The two men were sentenced to life in prison. Twelve years later, they were exonerated by DNA evidence and were among the first of a parade of people who have made Texas the national leader in acknowledging wrongful convictions. Their shocking tale still reverberates around the state Capitol, where legislators keep passing laws to fix flaws that the case revealed in the criminal justice system.
The â??fetal painâ? legislation introduced in Congress and the state legislatures directs physicians to tell women that a fetus can feel pain at a particular time in gestation, often as early as 20 weeks. But science and medicine are uncertain on this point, and as evidence mounts, medical opinion evolves.
It is a fundamental mistake for legislatures to pronounce upon scientific disputes. They have neither the expertise to make such judgments nor a mechanism to revise these judgments as new evidence emerges. Indeed, such legislation is more likely motivated by a desire to halt abortions than by a desire to give women accurate information.
Such interference is an insult to physicians (who apparently cannot be trusted to give women accurate information) and to women (who apparently cannot be trusted to evaluate this information). The doctorâ??s office is no place to play politics with the truth.
R. ALTA CHARO
Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics
University of Wisconsin Law School
UW-Madison and the Wisconsin Department of Administration hosted a town hall meeting Thursday evening at the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesâ?? office to address future upgrades to four of Madisonâ??s power plants
Veolia Water SA of France, one of the world’s biggest water-technology companies, spends $50 million a year to develop ways to clean wastewater in a world beset by water shortages. And starting soon, it plans to be spending a share of its research-and-development budget in Milwaukee.
The company, a newcomer to the city, will give a $1.5 million research grant to the Great Lakes WATER Research Institute, an arm of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, company officials said.
In an election season when young voters have made more impact than ever, a quarter of Wisconsin’s eligible voters under 30 participated in Tuesday night’s primary – making youth turnout here equal to Massachusetts and second only to New Hampshire this year.
According to The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement, 220,200 voters under age 30 cast ballots in Tuesday’s primary – 25% of eligible voters in that age group.
At 16 voting wards at or near University of Wisconsin-Madison, Marquette University and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Sen. Barack Obama beat Democratic rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton among local college students, grabbing at least 79% of the vote. He was most popular at UW’s Gordon Commons, capturing 87% of the vote there.
At the end of its meeting Tuesday afternoon, the University of Wisconsin Athletic Board’s finance committee voted to do nothing — and it may have been the most welcome inaction to Badger fans in a decade and a half.
The vote was to approve the freezing of ticket prices for a year, something the Athletic Department has not done since 1992. Back then, the department’s budget was $16.5 million; on Tuesday, the finance committee authorized a total spending authority of $89,149,700.
Backed by a strong economy and a growing stock market, American colleges and universities raised an estimated $29.8-billion in the 2007 fiscal year, the highest total ever recorded, according to a report scheduled for release today by the Council for Aid to Education.
Religion is said to be the driving influence behind Americansâ?? low moral opinion of nanotechnology, according to a researcher who surveyed public opinion on science and technology.
Dietram Scheufele, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of life sciences, and a colleague found in their study that only 29.5 percent of respondents from a sample of 1,015 adult Americans agreed that nanotechnology was morally acceptable.
When the survey was conducted in European countries, who are reportedly also key players in nanotechnology, the results were strikingly different.
Want to see a taping of the 2008 “Jeopardy! College Championship” at the Kohl Center in April?
Ticket applications for the event, taking place April 11 and 12, will be available Monday at all Subway restaurants in the greater Madison area. All ticket requests must be postmarked no later than March 10.
Last Tuesday, Barack Obama stood in front of 15,000 shouting supporters in Madison, Wis., basking in wins in Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. In addition to issuing a classic call to arms for the rest of the campaign, Mr. Obama took time out to welcome any Republicans to his bandwagon.
Quoted: Dhavan V. Shah, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis. — Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are working this weekend to clear up confusion among student voters.
Students are now receiving e-mails with a list of campus polling places after many declared they simply didn’t know where to go to vote. Most UW students living in campus dorms can vote in or near their building, officials said.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee heard budget presentations of University Health Services, Recreational Sports and the ASM bus passes Thursday.
A Madison man allegedly stalked his wife, a Madison police officer, by placing GPS devices in her vehicles, using sophisticated computer software to track her movements through her cell phone and hacking his way into the Madison Police Department’s human resources computer program to learn her work schedule.
Dustin M. Farberg, 38, a former corrections officer who now works as a human resources assistant for UW’s School of Medicine and Public Health, faces charges on felony counts of stalking, identity theft and vehicle theft and a misdemeanor computer crime for the alleged three-month-long stalking of both his wife and another police officer with whom she was having an affair.
Bill Clinton delivered a sweetly conciliatory Valentine’s Day stump speech in Madison Thursday afternoon, touting his wife’s experience as a Democratic presidential contender and only obliquely criticizing her rival Barack Obama.
Former President Clinton urged voters to support his wife’s presidential bid for both policy and personal reasons Thursday during stops across the state.
She “has the best heart-and-mind combination of anyone I’ve known,” the former president told a crowd of 2,100 at the Stock Pavilion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
MILWAUKEE (AP) â?? Former President Clinton promised undecided voters that if his wife is elected president, the economy will be stronger under her than under his watch, when the nation had record job growth and a balanced budget.
Clinton spoke to voters in multiple stops across Wisconsin on Thursday, just days ahead of the stateâ??s primary. His wife, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama are locked in a close race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
It’s hard not to come to the conclusion that Bill Clinton, our first rock star president, has been beaten at his own game by Barack Obama.
The contrast between Obama’s appearance at the Kohl Center on Tuesday night and Clinton’s appearance this afternoon at the UW Stock Pavilion was clear, on several fronts.
MADISON, Wis. — Former President Bill Clinton roped in more than 2,000 people at a speech Thursday in a University of Wisconsin-Madison pavilion normally used for livestock education.
Clinton spoke for about an hour at the Stock Pavilion on behalf of his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton. He is the second Clinton to visit Wisconsin this week, while his wife is instead focusing on later primaries in Texas and Ohio. She will be in the state starting Saturday. Their daughter, Chelsea Clinton, was in the state earlier this week.
The Bill Clinton road show rolled into Madison Thursday, and at times it was a bit hard to tell who he was campaigning for. Several times during his speech at the UW Livestock Pavilion, Clinton referred to what “we” are going to, although he was in town to campaign for his wife, Hillary Clinton.
Two University of Wisconsin alumni will be featured on United States Postal Service stamps that will debut in late February and early March.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is scheduled to appear at the Concourse Hotel at 10:30 a.m. today.
Huckabee is on a three-day swing through Wisconsin as he pursues a long-shot bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
Former President Bill Clinton was to be in Madison at the UW-Madison Stock Pavilion at 2 p.m. campaigning for Hillary Clinton.
MADISON, Wis. — Former President Bill Clinton will campaign for his wife during a tour of Wisconsin Thursday that includes a stop in Madison.
New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign said Bill Clinton will make stops in Milwaukee, Madison and La Crosse Thursday.
Bill Clinton will attend a campaign event at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Stock Pavilion at 1675 Linden Drive on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
MADISON, Wis. — The Madison City Clerk’s office and office of the Dane County Clerk said more poll workers are needed throughout the area for Tuesday’s primary. The city clerk’s office said approximately 40 poll workers are needed for the downtown Madison and campus areas.
Some 20,000 people poured into the Kohl Center on Tuesday night as presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama brought his hypnotic campaign to Madison on the heels of sweeping victories in todayâ??s Potomac Primaries, adding to a series of wins that have given him a critical edge in the Democratic race for the White House.
MADISON, Wis. — Speaking to a crowd of more than 17,000 in Madison Tuesday night, Barack Obama railed against the Iraq war and spoke sharply against the presumptive Republican nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain.
Instead of focusing on his Democratic challenger, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama criticized McCain’s support for the Iraq war, tying his backing of that and other policies to the Bush administration.
Noted: John and Tashia Morgridgeâ??$179 million, primarily to educational causes. Cisco Chairman John Morgridg met his wife, Tashia, while in high school in Wisconsin, and both attended the University of Wisconsin. They have long supported educational programs in their home state. This year, they made a founding gift of $175 million to establish the Fund for Wisconsin Scholars, which will provide grants for low-income graduates of Wisconsin public schools attending Wisconsin public post-secondary schools. The Morgridges also gave $4 million toward the building of a public pool facility in Milwaukee County.
In an effort to attract the most qualified candidates to be the next UW-Madison chancellor, the UW System Board of Regents unanimously approved Friday a salary range increase for the position.
While organizers geared up for a massive turnout at Tuesday’s appearance in Madison by Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, supporters of his rival, U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, today stepped up their call for the two to face each other in a Milwaukee debate.
Obama spokesman Dan Leistikow said the response to Obama’s appearance has been “tremendous. We sent out an initial e-mail to about 9,000 people in the Madison area. Within 24 hours, 50 percent of those people not only read the e-mail, but RSVPed on the Web site. That is unprecedented.”
Leistikow said the event “will be more than just a rally” and that attendees are being asked to bring their cell phones so they can find new ways “to take action and volunteer via text messaging.”
The UW Board of Regents on Friday fired a UW-Parkside professor who failed to show up to teach last semester.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Friday cleared the way to boost salaries for 13 college leaders, saying more competitive pay will help recruit the best candidates for three open chancellor positions.
The University of Wisconsin Board of Regents on Friday fired a former UW-Parkside assistant professor who filed a race discrimination lawsuit against the university last summer.
Ogbonnaya “Oko” Elechi lost his job because he stopped showing up for class, not because he filed the lawsuit, according to university officials. Elechi took a job at Prairie View A&M University in Texas without telling Parkside he was leaving, said Lenny Klaver, UW-Parkside vice chancellor.
MADISON, Wis. — Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton is scheduled to make four stops in Wisconsin this week on behalf of her mother.
Chelsea Clinton is the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and current presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton.
News 3 has learned that Chelsea Clinton plans to visit Milwaukee and Madison on Monday. She will speak in the East Ballroom in the UW Milwaukee Union at 10:30 a.m. In Madison, she’ll speak in the main lounge of Memorial Union on the UW campus at 3:15 p.m.
MADISON, Wis. — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is coming to Madison next week to host a rally.
The U.S. senator from Illinois will make his first Wisconsin campaign stop of the year on Tuesday night at the Kohl Center.
Obama’s campaign officials said that the senator will make his case to the state’s voters that he’s the man to stand up for hardworking families and to build a strong middle class, WISC-TV reported.
MADISON, Wis. â?? A University of Wisconsin-Parkside professor, fired this week after not showing up to teach last semester, had informed the school months earlier he planned to stay away until the school resolved its discriminatory environment, his lawyer said.
In a federal lawsuit filed in July, Ogbonnaya Oko Elechi claimed that university officials discriminated against him because of his race and Nigerian descent.
After 90 years, Madison’s afternoon newspaper will stop daily printing and shift its focus to its Web site and a more widely distributed free weekly print edition, its top executives said Thursday.
Presidential candidates spent $107 million on television advertising so far this season, with nearly all of it spent in the run-up to the earliest primaries and caucuses and almost none of it on Super Tuesday states, a University of Wisconsin-Madison study shows.
Students who graduate from the University of Wisconsin System could soon have an extra transcript to trumpet their achievements outside the classroom, system President Kevin Reilly announced Thursday.
An alumni group at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has sued Intel (NSDQ: INTC), accusing the chipmaker of infringing on a university patented invention that significantly improves the speed and efficiency of computer processing.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), a private, nonprofit corporation that is a supporting organization to the university, filed the suit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin. WARF said it filed the suit to protect the interests of the university and its inventors and to receive compensation for Intel’s allegedly unlicensed use.
Dear Editor: The University of Wisconsin endangers the lives of students, faculty, staff and Madison residents when it refuses to close its doors during inclement weather. One didn’t have to be a meteorologist to predict Wednesday morning that the snow would not let up, but would continue to fall, sometimes heavily, throughout the day.
We are proving nothing more than our foolishness by attempting to conduct “business as usual” in such conditions. Risking life and limb to conduct such business should not be expected or encouraged.
Frances Ellsworth, Madison
(This is the entire letter to the editor)
Madison, Wis. – The licensing arm of the University of Wisconsin-Madison has filed a patent infringement suit against Intel Corp., one of the world’s largest semiconductor companies, claiming that Intel’s widely used Core 2 Duo processor includes patented technology invented by UW-Madison researchers.
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, which noted the technology significantly improves the efficiency and speed of computer processing, filed the suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin.
NAMUR, Wis. â?? A University of Wisconsin-Green Bay professor died following a four-vehicle crash in southern Door County in which four others were injured.
Anne Kok, 60, of the town of Nasewaupee, was an associate professor and chair of the universityâ??s undergraduate program in social work. The universityâ??s online newsletter described her as an award-winning scholar who joined the faculty in 1988.
Eastside alder Brenda Konkel applauds those changes, but also wants more. “I think the thing we really haven’t gotten any progress on is better help from the city on notification(of snow emergencies),” said Konkel on Monday.
This winter has been one winter storm, after another. With those early dumpings in December came complaints, and promises from even Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz that plowing operations would improve.
The ’60s generation is bowing to its elders, at least when it comes to buildings on the UW-Madison campus.
While three 1960s-era buildings on campus have come down or will in the near future, five other structures dating back nearly 100 years will get major renovations and live on, according to Alan Fish, UW-Madison ‘s vice chancellor in charge of facilities planning and management.
People working in UW-Madison buildings along Lake Mendota reported a shake and a boom apparently caused by an ice quake Thursday afternoon.
“It actually sounded like a bus drove into the building. The whole building shook, ” said Patrick Brenzel, a staff member in the eighth-floor offices of the department of sociology, 1180 Observatory Drive.
Dear Editor: Don’t judge law professors by their truly nutty beliefs but do judge law professors by their writings and the tone of those writings and by what they have done and by what they have failed to do.
Kevin Barrett is the best thing that has ever happened to the University of Wisconsin.
Dear Editor: Ann Althouse wrote recently on her blog: “I don’t know why the University of Wisconsin has not rehired 9/11 conspiracy believer Kevin Barrett to teach a course on the history of Islam. But if we know a person believes something truly nutty, are we not entitled to use that as evidence of his intelligence, judgment and trustworthiness?”
Really!?
Dear Editor: On the subject of the truths and half-truths of the 9/11 issue, it is time to once again address the subject in terms of academic freedom for Kevin Barrett based on the documented evidence.
The presumptive attack on Barrett by UW law Professor Ann Althouse in her recent blog while at the same time refusing to engage in debate on the issue is my paramount concern.
MADISON, Wis. – An accidental leak of personal information may have affected nearly 530 University of Wisconsin-Madison employees, or more than twice as many as previously reported, an official acknowledged Tuesday.
The university said earlier this month that the mistake in which Social Security-based ID numbers, e-mail addresses and other information was published on an Internet site affected only about 200 faculty and staff.
The university notified 205 employees that their information may have been exposed by an online database that tracked purchases from a campus computer shop. That information was inadvertently posted on a university Web site and available to the world for a year.
The Madison School Board said Monday night that Daniel Nerad will be the district ‘s next superintendent. He holds bachelor ‘s and master ‘s degrees in social work from UW-Madison, which he attended in the 1970s.
Brian Rust, communications manager with DoIT, the Division of Information Technology at UW-Madison, said he’s surprised, too. “Normally, you would think there would be backup for the mail customers wanted kept,” said Rust.
At UW-Madison, 8 million to 10 million messages a day come through for the WiscMail system’s 93,000 users. Of those, up to 7 million as rejected as identifiable spam.
A new report in Madison calls on university and city officials to crack down on underage drinking, raise drink prices and shutter bars to stop alcohol-related crime.
Capitol Neighborhoods recent 14-page report frames its findings on a strategy that would need to be implemented in whole to have any real effect.
But, city and university officials are taking a wait and see approach, talking up their own efforts to reduce alcohol-related problems.
In his article (â??Barrett alleges discrimination at 2 UW schools,â? Jan. 21) Pedro Oliveira Jr. misstates my position, writing, â??Barrett was heavily scrutinized in fall 2006 for his public affiliation with the belief that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center were perpetrated by the U.S. military.â?
Dear Editor: I am out of a job because The Capital Times and other mainstream media outlets refuse to report the news.
As a scholar, my job is to seek and report the truth, no matter where it leads. That is also the job of the media.
Gov. Jim Doyle said Thursday that he has already asked state department heads to institute belt-tightening measures to deal with an expected budget shortfall stemming from the economic slowdown.
College and universities in Wisconsin are getting richer.
Each of Wisconsin’s top 15 college endowments has grown by at least 15%.
The richest endowment belongs to the biggest school: UW-Madison. It’s got $1,645,250,000 in its coffers for its 41,000-plus student body.
