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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Council OKs new Target, gives Wilco members citizenship
Senate approves bill restricting scalping at sporting event venues
By Grace Urban
The Daily Cardinal
The Daily Cardinal
In a surprisingly short meeting Tuesday, Madison’s Common Council voted to make band members of Wilco honorary citizens in addition to granting final approval for several city projects and liquor licenses. The council voted to allow the construction of a Target store at Hilldale Shopping Center on University Avenue. According to Jackie Bell, who spoke on behalf of Target, construction could begin as early as this spring. “We’ve had a lot of great input from citizens on [the project],” she said. “We would like to get under construction … right away when the ground thaws this spring and open the following summer in 2011.” According to Ald. Chris Schmidt, District 11, there has been a great deal of support for the Target project. Ald. Marsha Rummel, District 6, said the project was “a model for how the system is not broken,” referring to comments made by Mayor Dave Cieslewicz in the past in reference to problems council page 3
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Ald. Marsha Rummel, District 6, cited the coming Target store at Hilldale Shopping Center as evidence of a working development process in Madison.
Madison thefts rise as other crimes fall The Madison Police Department released findings Tuesday revealing that Madison experienced a decrease in many types of crime in 2009, despite an increase in theft. According to the Uniform Crime Reporting data, crimes covered by the report dropped 4.4 percent in Madison from 2008 to 2009, with the number of offenses decreasing from 9,147 in 2008 to 8,740 in 2009. danny marchewka/the daily cardinal
Chris Brockel, manager of the Food and Gardens Division of the Community Action Coalition for South Central Wisconsin, discusses strategies for ending hunger.
Hunger event sheds light on Madison poverty By Estephany Escobar The Daily Cardinal
The Millennium Development Goals Awareness Project held its second conference discussing hunger and poverty issues in the Red Gym Tuesday. Chris Brockel, manager of the Food and Gardens Division of the Community Action Coalition for South Central Wisconsin, discussed current projects to lessen hunger in the Madison area. During the event, “Engaging for
By Steven Rosenbaum The state Senate passed legislation Tuesday that seeks to restrict the resale of tickets outside entertainment and sporting event venues. The bill would allow cities, the UW System campuses and venues like the Milwaukee Bucks’ Bradley Center to create a “resale zone” where fans would be allowed to sell their excess tickets if the resale price is less than or equal to face value. Under the bill, a person selling outside the designated zone could receive a citation and be fined up to $500. Proponents of the bill, including the Milwaukee Brewers organization, said it will protect attendees from overly aggressive or harassing ticket resellers. State Sen. Jim Sullivan, D-Wauwatosa, sponsored the bill and said it will help fans enjoy the experience of attending events. “This is going to be enforced against people who are essentially very aggressive ticket resellers—people with handfuls of tickets in their hands. It’s not un-akin to aggressive panhandling,” Sullivan said during the Senate session. The bill passed the Senate on a 28-3 vote. State Sen. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, voted against the measure. He said the bill is unnecessary and unfairly targets the casual fan with an extra ticket they are looking to sell. “The Brewers claim the fans are being harassed. As someone who has been to over 100 Brewers games in my life, as well as Bucks and Badger games, I have never felt harassed,” Grothman said. “The Brewers are already receiving a subsidy of over $200 million on their stadium, and it shouldn’t bother them if a few people resell their tickets outside the designated area.” The Senate also passed a bill regulating the use of the words “Wisconsin,” “university,” “college” or “state” in the titles of academic institutions. The legislation was intended as a response to “diploma mills” that issue misleading academic credentials. The bill aims to eliminate and penalize anyone who manufactures such documents. It passed on a 29-2 vote.
“Despite statistically looking relatively good, areas of concern remain.” Joel DeSpain spokesperson Madison Police Department
Change: Ending Hunger on Time,” Brockel explained to a small crowd the relationship between food and politics. “We are not talking necessarily about the lack of food, [what] we are talking about is the distribution of food,” he said. Brockel said hunger in Madison may not be as explicit as in places like Niger and Haiti. “You might say, well, we don’t see kids ...
MPD said additional officers on the street last year along with better crime analysis contributed to the “positive impact on crime numbers.” UCR data cover eight categories of crime: murder, forcible
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