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***** In a letter to the editor in Sunday’s Wisconsin State Journal, Madison resident Rich Carney points out the denialism and hypocrisy of the city’s Monona lakeshore redesign plans. “Waterfront…
~~~ hen government shifts from merely presenting the facts on a public project to an orchestrated campaign that avoids any negatives, Joe Taxpayer never knows if he’s getting the truth…
***** When it dumped refuse along the Lake Monona shoreline from the 1930s to the 1950s to create Law Park, the City of Madison also made a perfect shoreline–well, almost…
In the 1990s, a powerful Chamber of Commerce Juggernaut finally made Frank Lloyd Wright’s Monona Terrace happen after decades of failed attempts. Who was part of this Juggernaut? Greater Madison…
***** In recent years, City of Madison leaders have made much ballyhoo about recognizing that the city stands on the Ho-Chunk Nation’s
***** On July 25, 1989, Laurie Egre at the Wisconsin DNR wrote to her colleague Joe Brusca about the “Truax Air National Guard Fire Training Site.” She referred to the…
*** Previous posts described how, from the 1930s to the 1950s, the City of Madison filled the Lake Monona shoreline with refuse to make Law Park, and how the Frank…
This piece will be edited in coming days. If you see mistakes or problems, or have something to add, please let me know: mariapowell@mejo.us “EIS committee members received a report…
*** Madison’s infamous “hairball” Nolen-Wilson-Willy St intersection was built over an old city landfill, created from the 1930s to the 1950s along the Lake Monona shoreline from Blair Street to…
******* Curiously, the presentation by Allen Arntsen and Mike Sturm at the September 15 “Clean Lakes Alliance 101 Science Cafe,” on “re-imagining Lake Monona’s shoreline,” omitted a critical piece of…
******** Some of this is an excerpt from the end of a previous post (since few will read down that far). WisDOT Nolen-E. Wilson-Willy St reconstruction testing at Law Park…
****** As described in detail in the last post, from the 1930s to the 1950s the City of Madison pushed a plethora of wastes—residential garbage, old newspapers, construction debris, and…
**** On August 15, 2022, Dean Mosiman of the Wisconsin State Journal reported that “A 13-member special committee has chosen three finalists in a plan to reshape the Lake Monona…
Note to readers: Over the years we have posted countless links to online WSJ and Cap times stories (on Madison.com) in our articles. We have occasionally posted entire articles, knowing…