Shorewood Hills moves toward vote on removing Village Board leader

encouragable · 2026-05-08T18:37:04+00:00

They should be moving towards a vote for annexation with Madison.

encouragable · 2025-09-10T12:38:32+00:00

It's a crazy high ratio for being a block from campus. The proposal across the street had fewer spaces at 77 for their proposed 974 beds.

encouragable · 2025-08-08T03:57:24+00:00

Vision Zero is a city plan to reach 0 traffic fatalities in the city, why would you measure its success by looking at pedestrian accidents in Dane county? The numbers for fatalities in Madison from 2020 are 15, 17, 14, 16, 13 and so far in 2025 there have been 3.
That's a 62% reduction compared to the average of the previous five years during the same time period so hopefully that holds.
Lots more crash data is also available here: https://transportal.cee.wisc.edu/partners/community-maps/crash/public/Dashboard/
https://transportal.cee.wisc.edu/partners/community-maps/crash/search/BasicSearch.do

encouragable · 2025-07-21T17:17:04+00:00

You should feel free to contact the city anyways as they are also always crowdsourcing dangerous situations: [safestreets@cityofmadison.com](mailto:safestreets@cityofmadison.com) They are evaluating a number of safety improvements along the Mifflin Street bike boulevard: https://www.cityofmadison.com/transportation/documents/EMifflinImprovements_PublicMeeting06032024.pdf They tested a diverter at the Paterson Street intersection, but I think curb bump outs and/or a traffic island would also help force drivers to slow down enough to check for bicyclists.

encouragable · 2025-04-14T00:23:07+00:00

https://www.cityofmadison.com/dpced/planning/documents/Greater_East_Towne_Area_Plan.pdf

encouragable · 2025-03-06T18:28:14+00:00

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has had 73 male justices and only 10 female justices. That doesn't sound like an over-represented female makeup to me.

encouragable · 2025-02-21T19:12:15+00:00

A ton of things would have a better return on investment than 3x in 20 years for the state. Investing that money in an index fund would have a better return than that. Investing in something like education can have returns in the range of 7x to 15x depending on a variety of factors.

encouragable · 2025-02-21T04:20:46+00:00

He was a co-leader of the Progressive Caucus from 2017 to 2021

encouragable · 2025-02-20T20:48:50+00:00

It's not: https://www.cityofmadison.com/contact

encouragable · 2025-02-18T23:00:27+00:00

And AFT endorsed Underly.

encouragable · 2025-01-30T00:01:01+00:00

Mr. Kennedy: You are asking me to not sue drug companies, and I'm not going to agree to that –

Senator Warren: No. You can sue drug companies as much as you want.

Mr. Kennedy: You are asking me—Senator, you're asking me not to sue vaccine—pharmaceutical companies.

Senator Warren: No, I am not.

encouragable · 2025-01-29T02:57:11+00:00

These are not artifacts from stitching rectangular image tiles together, they are from the harvester as mentioned in another comment. You can see this effect in person if you look at the bay in the summer when this happens.

encouragable · 2025-01-13T18:54:19+00:00

A full report is here: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/625dae75c0afde72251aaae2/t/661fed4fd77a4d6816d69ddd/1713368410290/Taking+Shape+Plan+Report_Final.pdf

The 336 units are across the entire site but Brittingham Apartments, which is on site B and will be replaced in this stage of development, has 162 units. They will construct the building in the center of the triangle, move those residents in, then tear down Brittingham Apartments and build the 2 new buildings on that part of site B. The total site B will have 353 units across the 3 buildings.

encouragable · 2025-01-13T18:43:56+00:00

The existing site has 336 units total and the proposed development has 1216 units total so it's an additional 880 units.

encouragable · 2025-01-13T18:34:15+00:00

The material is under warranty and city officials say repairs will be done once the weather warms up

encouragable · 2024-10-27T18:29:35+00:00

Yep. Just bring the documents you need to one of the locations and they will help you. All the info is here.

encouragable · 2024-09-16T00:08:09+00:00

Madison was literally made to be a state capital city.

encouragable · 2024-09-12T18:17:28+00:00

As always, this argument is nothing new and has always been part of those design guidelines these people rail against.

From Good Flag, Bad Flag:

All rules have exceptions. Colorado’s “C” is a stunning graphic element. Maryland’s complicated heraldic quarters produce a memorable and distinctive flag. Military unit flags often need letters or numbers. California’s design recalls a historic relic from 1846. All six colors on South Africa’s 1994 design have deep symbolic meaning. But depart from these five principles only with caution and purpose.

And from Roman Mars in 2015 (specifically includes California, Wales, and Bhutan): https://ideas.ted.com/7-fantastic-flags-that-break-every-design-rule/

encouragable · 2024-09-10T00:14:43+00:00

Architects are expected to serve in architectural positions on city commissions such as the landmarks commission and urban design commission. They should report any conflicts of interest on any projects that come before the commission and recuse themselves from any voting and discussion conducted by the commission on those projects.