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| What Madison's Talking About |
|  | It’s fitting that the people in this artist’s rendering are in summer clothes, because the Madison Public Market is now expected to open in June or July. (Madison Public Market) |
| 🛍️ The Madison Public Market Will Finally Open This Summer. (Maybe.) | - The much-anticipated Madison Public Market could now open in June or July of this summer, market CEO Keisha Harrison said.
- But Harrison is reluctant to give a firm date, given the project’s previous delays and setbacks, which stretch back two decades. Harrison had previously estimated that the building might open in March.
- The $24 million market, located in the renovated Fleet Services building on North First Street, has confirmed 10 tenants so far for its 28 long-term leasable spaces, including Cinn City Smash, Melly Mell’s, and a Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream location. [ 🔒WSJ, 🎧 City Cast Madison]
| | 🇮🇱 UW Student Government Calls For Divestment From Israel | - The Associated Students of Madison voted last week to demand that UW-Madison divest from companies linked to Israel, drawing a swift rebuke from administration officials.
- After several hours of debate and public comment from students both for and against the measure, the council passed a resolution calling for a ban on “investments complicit in apartheid and genocide, including Israel’s genocide of Gaza.”
- UW officials said in a statement they were “disappointed” the students passed a resolution that “issued a number of flawed, unrelated and illegal demands.” They pointed to a 2017 Wisconsin law that prevents state agencies and local governments from adopting policies that boycott Israel. [ 🔒 WSJ, Wisconsin Legislative Council]
| | 🚧 Upper End of State Street Partially Closed For Construction | |
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| | | Spring is a great time to tackle maintenance and cleaning tasks at home. Madison Gas and Electric is reminding you to prep your cooling and heating system(s) to help your home be more efficient this summer. |
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| The Most Memorable Headlines From Tone Madison |
|  | The independent news and culture site Tone Madison will cease operating on Friday, April 3. (Tone Madison) |
| April 3 will be the end of an era for Madison journalism. Tone Madison, the proudly independent online publication that has challenged Madison’s institutions from political to cultural since 2014, is closing its doors. | | “We didn’t water down our voice to placate advertisers or funders,” the editors wrote in their announcement. “There were no unaccountable executives, no rich men turning our publication into a plaything, no compromise. We’re proud that we were always willing to poke the bear, even when other outlets were busy trying to make friends with the bear.” | | The Tone Madison archive will remain online, so readers can enjoy some of their favorite stories and headlines that Tone published over the years. Here are some of our faves. Who else but Tone could have written about a feud between a local editorial cartoonist and a witch? | | | This one’s a bit of a homer, as City Cast Madison’s Executive Producer Hayley Sperling wrote for Tone Madison back in 2018 to share a sneak peek into the delight that is late-night escargot at the Tornado Room and what makes the experience quite so magical. | | | Writer Reid Kurkerewicz makes the case for why John Wilde is Wisconsin’s most famous painter, not without some reader pushback, and the fascinating legacy he leaves behind. | | | As Tone Madison’s editor’s note declares: “I don’t know if Tone Madison has ever published a headline more attention-grabbing than this one.” A feud between a cartoonist and a professor ended with… a witch cursing Phil Hands’ dick. | | | Reporter Mia Sato unpacks the dismantling of the statue of the “Forward” symbol during the summer of 2020, and how hollow the act feels in the face of racism she was intimately familiar with and facing during her undergraduate time at UW-Madison. | | |
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📰 Extra! Extra! Frogs and toads are getting busy this time of year, and the Department of Natural Resources wants your help to learn about it. The DNR is looking for volunteers – nicknamed “froggers” – to help them study their breeding calls this spring. Froggers go out to the wetlands and document what they hear. Sounds like it’s a “ribbiting” research project! 🐸 | | Correction: On the March 27 podcast, I said that in-person absentee voting ends April 3. In fact, there are many (but not all) locations that offer it on April 4 and 5 as well. Here’s a full list of locations and hours. |
| – Rob Thomas | ✏️ Alana Nevins contributed to the article on Tone Madison. |
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