Common Ground with… Carole Schaeffer

Carole Schaeffer’s long and impactful real estate development career began in 2005, when she was named executive director of Smart...
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Common Ground with… Carole Schaeffer

More city and county funding means expansion of Madison’s CARES program

Behavioral health emergency assistance may soon be a 911 call away for more residents of Madison and Dane County. Earlier...
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More city and county funding means expansion of Madison’s CARES program

Madison reinvents itself, again

UW–Madison senior Rhia Dhingra is one of the many Madison residents currently living in a building that won’t be here...
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Madison reinvents itself, again

Protecting Madison minds: Tackling youth athlete concussions

Teenage athletes are often thought to be temperamental, snippy or moody.  But after working in the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit...
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Protecting Madison minds: Tackling youth athlete concussions

Shelter and housing plans bring hope to Dane County’s homeless population

In February 2017, Torrie Kopp Mueller visited Grace Episcopal Church in downtown Madison — well, at least the basement of...
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Shelter and housing plans bring hope to Dane County’s homeless population

Common Ground with… Karen Oberhauser

Managing, monitoring and connecting community members to over 1,200 acres of woodlands, savannas, prairies and wetlands could seem unimaginable for...
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Common Ground with… Karen Oberhauser

The NHL’s pride tape ban brings to light why having a gay hockey league is so important in the first place

When the NHL banned Pride Tape, a sports tape brand that aims to “promote diversity, equality and inclusion through sport,”...
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The NHL’s pride tape ban brings to light why having a gay hockey league is so important in the first place

Metro Transit redesign leads to increased ridership, mixed feedback

Des, 17, relies on Metro Transit to get to Operation Fresh Start, a nonprofit on Milwaukee Street where he builds...
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Metro Transit redesign leads to increased ridership, mixed feedback

Common Ground with…Lizzie Oswalt

Lizzie Oswalt is a library and information science graduate student at UW–Madison. Currently, she is completing her practicum as an...
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Common Ground with…Lizzie Oswalt

Reading Behind Bars: How a Madison-Based Nonprofit is Breaking the Barrier Between Prisoners and Books

During the 37 years that Harlan Richards spent in prison, he became an artist and a poet, and even learned...
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Reading Behind Bars: How a Madison-Based Nonprofit is Breaking the Barrier Between Prisoners and Books
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