The Plan Commission will decide the smoker's fate at a Monday night meeting - but many in the Monroe-Vilas community... say a smoker would impact their quality of living. The Vilas Neighborhood Association declined an interview but said in a statement it opposed a conditional use permit "for numerous reasons that are incongruent with the neighborhood and the close proximity... to the surrounding residential neighborhood."
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Senin, 02 November 2015
"Everyone else can barbeque but us - and we're a barbecue restaurant."
"Our business model is based on BBQ, and [they're] constraining my business."
Senin, 12 Oktober 2015
Rabu, 07 Oktober 2015
Another Frank Lloyd Wright house is discovered in Madison.
The house is right there where we've always seen it, on West Lawn Avenue, but it's just been figured out that it is "the 16th known example of the American System-Built House, a short-lived venture by Wright meant to provide affordable housing through predesigned homes built with factory-cut materials."
A full-page ad for American System-Built homes that Hamilton finally tracked down in the March 25, 1917, edition of the State Journal was the “missing link.”...
“Less cost – that is one amazing feature of the American System, that these beautiful homes, all Frank Lloyd Wright designs, of guaranteed materials and price, can be built for less money than the ordinary house of similar size and materials,” the ad stated.
Jumat, 02 Oktober 2015
"The Daily Show" comes to Madison, Wisconsin to examine the "extensive" anti-bias training program for police here.
Here's the clip of the segment. The part about Madison begins at 4:34. There's some interesting material about the training, which is demonstrated to 2 comics, one black and one white, who try to amuse us by cutting up about race from an exaggerated black and white perspective. We're told "there's a compelling reason why" Madison has this program and a news clip that says: "Tonight, there are protests over another deadly police shooting of an unarmed man." But later, after showing quite a lot of the kind of training that is done in Madison, it's revealed that Madison's program was in place 5+ years before the shooting of a young man that led to the protests. There's no mention of what that man was doing that led to his shooting or of the fact that the officer who killed him had, some years before, shot and killed a white man. Obviously, they can't go into every nuance, but I'm sensitive to distortions about my city, though I guess we do get some credit for having the training program, even if the point seems to be that racial bias is so deeply ingrained that the best you can do is to send the message that you care enough to do something significant to try to minimize it.
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