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Monthly Archive: February 2010
Feb
25
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Feb
24
Recalibrating our goals on 40th Earth Day
John Heritage | 1970 Earth Day organizer Forty years ago, we celebrated the first Earth Day. I was the environmental assistant to the late Sen. Gaylord Nelson, who founded the event and charged me to make it happen. The project began when the former Wisconsin governor called Chuck Conconi, his press secretary, and me into …
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Feb
24
Plain Talk: A case of Edgewater exaggeration
Dave Zweifel | Capital Times editor emeritus | Posted: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 Long ago William T. Evjue, the founder of The Capital Times, wrote that developers are people who come to make over a neighborhood, and when they’re finished changing the lives of the folks who live there, they go back to their homes …
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Feb
24
Proposed Edgewater project secures zoning change
By Paul Snyder The Madison Common Council, on a 13-7 vote Tuesday, approved a zoning change for the proposed $93 million redevelopment of the Edgewater Hotel. The change alters the city’s setback standard by maintaining a commercial building’s setback from the waterfront when the building is expanded. According to current zoning, the minimum setback for …
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