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1 month ago | 
isthmus.com | Liam Beran
Changes in federal funding could significantly shape the city’s 2026 budget.
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2 months ago | 
isthmus.com | Liam Beran
Wisconsin family farms face new challenges under President Trump, including tariffs, deregulation and federal funding cuts.
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Mar 7, 2025 | 
isthmus.com | Liam Beran
FairShare CSA Coalition vows to ‘stay the course’ on its equity and diversity goals.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
isthmus.com | Liam Beran
At least three state of Wisconsin websites have been taken offline.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
isthmus.com | Liam Beran
Just before the Madison city council convened Tuesday night to discuss the future of two formerly city-owned ice arenas, a stream of high schoolers in white and green uniforms began pouring into the council chambers.
The members of the Madison Memorial hockey team were there to show their support for a plan to forgive the debt on the arenas, player and senior Owen Anderson said in an interview before the meeting.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
isthmus.com | Liam Beran
Boom.
The city parks commission rejected pleas to cease fireworks shows at Warner Park, voting instead Wednesday night to reduce the number of displays to six for the upcoming season.
“People build memories around fireworks. People like fireworks,” said outgoing commission president Moira Harrington. “On the other hand, you all made some wonderful points tonight,” she added, referring to those who asked in public testimony for the displays to cease.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
isthmus.com | Liam Beran
Before the September launch of Madison’s bus rapid transit system, Metro Transit officials said the red traffic paint covering bus-only lanes “should last 10 years” before needing repairs. But less than four months later, the material is already chipping in campus and downtown areas, where flakes of the red, methyl methacrylate-enhanced paint have accumulated along the sidewalk and curb.
The cause is unclear.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
isthmus.com | Liam Beran
Will he or won’t he? Up until Tuesday’s candidate filing deadline for the spring primary election it was unclear whether the embattled Madison Ald. Charles Myadze — who is facing eight felony charges, including battery, strangulation and false imprisonment — would run for re-election.
But Myadze missed the Dec. 27 deadline to file for noncandidacy, and, as of 5 p.m Tuesday, had not submitted nomination papers, according to a city statement.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
isthmus.com | Liam Beran
Will he or won’t he? Up until Tuesday’s candidate filing deadline for the spring primary election it was unclear whether the embattled Madison Ald. Charles Myadze — who is facing eight felony charges, including battery, strangulation and false imprisonment — would run for re-election.
But Myadze missed the Dec. 27 deadline to file for noncandidacy, and, as of 5 p.m Tuesday, had not submitted a declaration of candidacy, according to a city statement.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
isthmus.com | Liam Beran
On a recent bright Friday morning, people were fishing by their ice shanties on frozen-over Monona Bay. Ice thickness on the bay’s west side on Jan. 3, according to users on the freshwater fishing forum Lake-Link, was around 4 to 5 inches, above the recommended 4-inch minimum for walking on ice.
But temperatures had been in the 40s just days before and some passersby were frustrated that people were still taking to the ice.
