The City of Madison Streets and Recycling Department is revitalizing a food waste collection program that ended last year, thanks in part to a $39,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Month: August 2019
“Madison, you have to build something better”: Dr. Bettina Love Fires Up MMSD Back To School Rally
Love, an esteemed writer and educational researcher, fully kicked a hornet’s nest on “Black Excellence” during a major rally of local educators at the Alliant Energy Center Monday morning.
Madison Commons Media Digest, August 25, 2019
Madison and Dane County Independent Madison police monitor could launch investigations, but lack the final say, Chris Rickert, Wisconsin State Journal, August 25. Research group
The Kit Man: Kevin “K-Dog” Harter Keeps Forward Madison Ready to Win
Kevin Harter has been in the locker room for a few hours already when I meet him in the cramped space under the stone grandstand at Breese Stevens Field. Still, he’s behind his usual schedule — the Forward Madison FC equipment manager usually has the locker room prepped the night before home matches.
“It’s Bigger Than Me.” Lilada Gee Comes Out as an Artist, Seeks to Empower Women and Girls
Gee, founder of Lilada’s Livingroom, an organization to help women and girls deal with the trauma of abuse, revealed herself as an artist on social media earlier this summer.
Community Partnership Helps People Get a Good Night’s Sleep
Gwendolyn Diemer, 69, the vice president of Triangle Neighbor Organization, had been sleeping on an air mattress for almost a year before she landed in an apartment at the Community Development Authority’s Triangle complex, just south of downtown Madison, six years ago.
“You have to light it up, put it down and you have to sink all the way on the floor to get on it,” said Diemer, “It was just not comfortable.”
Fortunately, Diemer was able to get a bed through a partnership between CDA’s Triangle complex, UnityPoint Health-Meriter and Steinhafel’s which is providing beds for residents on a monthly basis.
Madison Commons Media Digest, August 18, 2019
Madison and Dane County Madison Flooding: Another deluge like 2018 would bring ‘deep trouble’ to area, Chris Hubbuch, Wisconsin State Journal, August 18. More than
The Bus Stops Here: For Belt Tightening
A counterintuitive way to reduce congestion is to go on a road diet or, in this case belt-tightening. The common view? No. On July 24,
Artist Jenie Gao Seeks “Uncommon Ground” in New Exhibit
Full time artist, creative director and entrepreneur Jenie Gao said when opinions, clash people often want to find common ground to bare solutions.
Gao, however, sees it differently.
“From personal to professional to political spaces, I have paid attention to disputes between people who plead for common ground yet gloss over perspectives and leave issues unresolved. I have wondered that if instead of common ground, we should advocate and claim space for identities and representations that are rare,” Gao said.
Madison Commons Media Digest, August 11, 2019
Madison and Dane County ‘Extraordinarily Disappointing’: Madison police union calls out Rhodes-Conway over comments, August 10; Madison City Council approves initial recommendations from police committee,
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