Madison wants State Street- area bars to voluntarily close 90 minutes early to shorten the massive Halloween party there next month.
But bars, after being hit with legal costs for cooperating with the city on a drink specials ban and being hit with a local minimum wage, smoking ban and proposal for mandatory paid sick leave, are saying no way.
“This is not going to happen,” said Barb Mercer, president of the Dane County Tavern League. “This is an industry that has been beaten up, sat on, chewed up and spit out. I’m angry.”