Wisconsin is celebrating the 150th birthday of native son Frank Lloyd Wright with events and a new 200-mile trail directing visitors to nine of the sites, homes and buildings he designed.
Madison Mayor Paul Soglin is calling for an overall spending increase on construction and other capital projects in 2015 but about $10 million less on newly proposed projects.
Madison officials are trying to avoid sinking millions more into the city's oldest parking garage, but time is running out and the alternatives are elusive.
By Darryl Enriquez Two Madison aldermen want the state Department of Health Services building, with its art deco styling, to be home to the new high-speed rail depot near Monona Terrace. Common Council President Mark Clear and Alderman Mike Verveer, ...
By Darryl Enriquez If Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz’s goal for breaking ground on the proposed Monona Terrace high-speed rail depot is to be met, officials must avoid lengthy policy debates that have prolonged or threatened other projects, local contractors and ...
If Madison’s everyone-has-a-say-and-every-topic-deserves-a-public-hearing mentality for project approval holds, the high-speed rail station at Monona Terrace is teed up for at least a year’s worth of neighborhood questions, criticisms and suggested improvements.
By Darryl Enriquez As many as eight daily freight trains sharing a track with a passenger service near Monona Terrace is a recipe for gridlock rail officials want to avoid. “We do have some reservations about that corridor, and we ...
By Paul Snyder and Darryl Enriquez Support and questions mingled in the wake of Gov. Jim Doyle’s Thursday announcement that high-speed rail will stop at a station near Monona Terrace in Madison. “We have to engage as a city on ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin agency that temporarily suspended its low interest home loans because of the recession has thrown a nearly $11,000 party to show its employees they’re appreciated. While many state agencies are forgoing the traditional holiday ...