Doug Moe

1 week ago | channel3000.com | Doug Moe

It’s not clear exactly when Mike May fell for Phil King, but when he did, he fell hard. May, who died in 2022, at 68, was a Madison native who served as Madison’s city attorney from 2004-2020. Well-respected as a lawyer — he had 25 years in private practice prior to his appointment by Mayor Dave Cieslewicz — May also had a wide circle of admiring friends drawn to his exuberant personality. In my newspaper days, May’s extracurricular activities made great column fodder.

2 weeks ago | channel3000.com | Doug Moe

In the spirit of our Road Trips cover story, this month’s column is about wide-ranging passions preserved in museums across Wisconsin. Think accordions in Superior, armor in Alma and mustard in Middleton. Glass in Neenah, wood type in Two Rivers and toilet paper in Madison. OK, the Madison Museum of Bathroom Tissue is no longer around, having been flushed more than two decades ago when the curator, Carol Kolb, moved to New York City with The Onion.

3 weeks ago | channel3000.com | Doug Moe

It will be six years this summer since a tree fell from a yard across the street and crushed my car, turning me into a bicyclist. The decision not to replace the vehicle was fairly easy, in part because much of my work is done from my home office, and my wife has a car I can borrow if necessary. Finally — this sealed the deal — we live in close proximity to the Southwest Commuter Path, or as everyone in our Monroe Street neighborhood calls it, the bike path.

1 month ago | channel3000.com | Doug Moe

About the time Lodi author James Campbell’s research on jaguars and their great champion, the wild cat conservationist Alan Rabinowitz, was derailed by the emerging pandemic, an Associated Press newspaper story put him on the track of a bunch of colorful characters who had been chasing buried treasure. This was 2020. Campbell’s pursuit of the jaguar had already taken him across the Americas, but further international travel was going to be problematic.

1 month ago | channel3000.com | Doug Moe

The way Christopher Berge is wired, maybe it figured that even when he set his sights on running a laid-back coffeehouse in Blue Mounds — a village where he has some history — he ended up trying to do too much. Berge is best known in Madison for co-founding and operating some of the city’s most notable and bustling restaurants, including the Blue Marlin, Restaurant Magnus and the Weary Traveler Freehouse. Even away from the restaurants, Berge went full throttle.