Keegan Kyle

2 months ago | captimes.com | Keegan Kyle

Madison voters head back to the polls today for the first time since a November election that included high-profile national races and tax hikes. This time, the choices are fewer, but by the end of the night, answers to a few key questions are likely to emerge. Below is a quick primer on what to watch. For more information about the races on your ballot and voting today, including the location of your polling place, visit myvote.wi.gov.

Jan 23, 2025 | captimes.com | Keegan Kyle

A few days after Madison police found Regan Cowan behind the wheel of a Subaru crashed into two parked cars, an officer visited her at the Dane County Jail with a kind offer. With her permission, Officer Matthew Johnson said he would go to Cowan’s east side home and check on the welfare of her pet guinea pig, Lucifer. Cowan had repeatedly expressed worries to officers about whether Lucifer would be OK while she was incarcerated. Johnson had an additional motive for the gesture, however.

Dec 9, 2024 | captimes.com | Keegan Kyle

In a contentious election year, in-depth reports examining news from local, state and national politics often adorned the cover of the Cap Times’ weekly print edition. But other cover stories typically ended up being more popular among those who read the Cap Times on mobile or desktop devices, according to internal measures on article views. Readers flocked to local journalism about managing sandhill cranes, invasive weeds in lakes and Madison’s urban forests.

Nov 20, 2024 | captimes.com | Keegan Kyle

From Nov. 15 to March 15 each year, Madison enforces alternate-side parking rules to help clear streets for overnight snow plowing. But the rules allow a few exceptions. People who live in the city’s “snow emergency zone” must follow alternate-side parking only during a declared snow emergency, which typically happens when 3 or more inches of snow are on roadways.

Nov 17, 2024 | captimes.com | Keegan Kyle |Brandon Raygo

Voters all across the communities and neighborhoods in the Madison Metropolitan School District widely supported the district’s two referendums this month that will raise property taxes for decades. But in the affluent village of Maple Bluff, on the eastern shore of Lake Mendota, voters expressed more aversion to hiking taxes for public schools. A narrow majority of voters in the village backed one referendum and rejected the other.