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Madison Area Bus Advocates challenge advertising on city buses

New fund for sustainable agriculture hopes to attract and support non-profit start-ups 

Part two in a series on art in the UW Hospital features Sarah Petto, artist-in-residence, and her art cart

Madison’s Metro Transit needs a skeletal snow emergency plan. Our winters are harsh; we can have excessive snowfalls, and conditions are not always amenable to a “business as usual” format. So despite all our technology, there are simply times when we need a contingency plan, as during the recent blizzard of Thursday, Dec. 20. Fortunately, Wisconsin’s governor declared a state of emergency that day so all government offices, schools, and other enterprises uniformly shut down.

The Madison Metropolitan School District hired seven new teachers from Spain this year as part of its efforts to immerse students in the Spanish language.

Isabel Simonetti, the school district’s bilingual personnel analyst, said the decision stemmed from an insufficient number of certified bilingual teachers in the U.S.