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The Tree Butchers are Coming!

Is MG&E coming to V your tree? Will your lovely street trees get hacked this year and will you be stuck looking at V trees? Or will the trees be completely removed? Here's the list of the "lucky" folks who will get their street trees butchered by MG&E this year.

Food – Do you take it for granted?

You need food, you go to the grocery store right? Well, for many in Dane County, its not that simple.

City Week Ahead

Monday and Tuesday Ahead . . . sorry, the rest is coming yet . . .

Does your Neighborhood need a Neighborhood Center?

Now is the time to speak up and get involved . . . the city is doing a Neighborhood Study and here are some...

Very Tall E Washington Project Gets Blessing

The 700 block of East Washington Gebhardt project gets initial approval from Urban Design and a recommendation for spot zoning/change of ordinance for a taller building . . . did anyone notice? Why isn't it controversial?

Parisi: Reform CARPC

CARPC you ask? Its the Capital Area Regional Planning Commission.

Navel Gazing Part II: Mayoral Alder Appointments

This was one of the great points of tension, they spent about 25 minutes on it, then kicked it to the Common Council Organizational...

Council Discussion on the Downtown Plan.

Well, kinda a discussion.

If section 8 isn’t income . . .

Then how is it that SB107/Wisconsin Act 108 which restricts the city and county from having ordinances prohibiting landlords use of monthly household income purportedly negates our section 8 ordinances at the city and county level?

Months later . . .

The Mayor's office staff writes a really good letter about admittance polices in the downtown bars . . . which are not necessarily limited to downtown any more

A Billboard Coming to a Neighborhood Near You?

Yup - billboards, which have been essentially phased out of the city are making a resurgence of sorts. And at least one is getting bigger as a result of a lost lawsuit. And, while it resolves some issues, the Don Miller lot seems to have been forgotten in the deal. And when they site the 5 new billboards, there will be no city process.

Co-op Conference Coming: June 7th Tentatively.

A city Economic Development Conference. While everyone else was at the Landmarks Commission meeting last night, I was at home, sick, on my couch watching Board of Estimates and there's a few gens in there that weren't reported in the news.