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Dane County executive candidates Q&A: Where they stand on issues
Aug 13, 2024 · Dane County executive candidates Q&A: Where they stand on issues. By Allison Garfield. Aug 13, 2024. The candidates to succeed former Dane County Executive Joe Parisi include state Sen. Melissa Agard, County Board Supervisor Dana Pellebon, Office for Equity and Inclusion Director Wes Sparkman, and Madison City Council Ald. Regina Vidaver.
Here's who is running for Congress in Wisconsin
Jun 17, 2024 · Republican. Douglas Alexander: A Madison former business executive and political organizer, Alexander also ran for U.S. Congress in 2022 on a platform of imposing term limits. Charles E. Barman: Barman is a Sharon farmer and Santa Claus actor who previously ran in Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District in 2022.
Open now or soon: 18 new restaurants (and more) around Madison
May 12, 2024 · Obert-Alvin — 2969 Main St., Blue Mounds. Per the State Journal, former co-owner of the Weary Traveler and the Blue Marlin Chris Berge is opening a coffee shop called Obert-Alvin in Blue Mounds at the end of June. The business is described as “part coffee shop, part event space and part vacation rental.”.
Wisconsin’s cannabis industry leafs out with new, legal products
Jul 10, 2024 · The first, “industrial hemp,” is any cannabis plant with 0.3% or less of delta-9 THC that can be made into “hundreds of products, including rope, paper, construction materials, carpeting, textiles, insulation, animal bedding and bioplastics,” according to the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s hemp crop profile page.
Q&A: Melissa Agard vs. Dana Pellebon for Dane County executive
Oct 11, 2024 · Voters will choose leaders across many levels of government at the ballot box Nov. 5, including who will be the next head of Dane County. Melissa Agard and Dana Pellebon are vying to be county executive after Joe Parisi retired from the role in May. Typically, the county executive is elected to serve a four-year term and receives $142,420 in annual salary.
$607M property tax hike for Madison public schools now up to …
Jun 24, 2024 · The school board of the Madison Metropolitan School District voted unanimously Monday evening to add the two tax questions on Nov. 5 ballots. One question will ask voters for $100 million over the next four school years to increase spending on staff and education programs. The second will ask for $507 million to renovate or replace seven aging ...
Madison schools’ $507M facilities referendum a ‘bet on the long …
Oct 10, 2024 · As Madison’s public school district is asking voters to approve a $507 million hike in property taxes this fall — mostly to fund new school buildings — several of the schools slated for reconstruction are being used below capacity. Fewer students are attending the schools than the buildings were originally designed to serve.