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‘Dramatic’ ideas for State St. Halloween crackdown

Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz is as angry today about the Halloween melee of 2004 as he was last fall, and he intends to do something about it, he told a community advisory group on Thursday.

Cieslewicz told police, merchants, students, city officials and others that in order to avoid a repeat of the disturbances that have occurred on State Street each of the last three years, the city should consider restricting access to State Street and making the celebration there a ticketed event, and possibly limiting participation to UW-Madison students.