City Cast Madison
🐮 The cows come home to Madison
September 25, 2024 · —Rob Thomas
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What's CITY Talking About?
🗳️Clerk’s Office Correcting Duplicate Ballots
- About 2,000 voters accidentally received duplicate absentee ballots due to a data processing error, the Madison City’s Clerk’s office announced.
- The error was quickly identified and corrected. Each voter was contacted, told of the error, and reminded to submit only one ballot and destroy the other one.
- Because the duplicate ballots have identical barcodes, once one is submitted, the other one would not be counted. In addition, once a voter submits a ballot, it’s marked in the poll book, meaning a second one would not be counted. [City of Madison]
🏗️ Developers Break Ground on Controversial Sherman Ave. Apartment
- Vermilion Development broke ground Monday on a $96 million multi-family development, Lane Lock Apartments, located on Sherman Avenue near Tenney Park.
- Two of the three buildings in the development are five stories tall, and some nearby residents complained to city officials that the buildings were intrusive to the park.
- The apartments will be located on the former site of the Filene House, which was razed as part of the development. [Cap Times]
🫁 Former ‘Redlined’ Areas Linked to Asthma
- Children who grow up in neighborhoods that were graded low for home loans, or “redlined,” have a slightly higher risk of asthma, according to a study involving UW-Madison researchers.
- The study looked at 4,800 children across seven cities, including Madison, and found that health disparities today may be rooted in racial discrimination of the federal government’s redlining system of nearly a century ago, the researchers said. Redlining was outlawed in 1968. [WSJ]
Where Is It?
⬆️ Last week’s answer
This signpost is located outside the Madison Children’s Museum!
🥳 Congratulations to Scott A. for being the first to get the answer right!
⬇️ This week’s photo
Where do you think this week’s photo was taken? A few clues:
- This statue is of a UW-Madison art professor.
- You might have heard the new director of the building the statue sits outside of on a recent episode of the City Cast Madison podcast.
- This statue sees a lot of foot traffic.
What To Do
Wednesday, Sep. 25
- All People Karaoke at Cafe CODA
- Black Uhuru at The Barrymore Theatre
- Michael Hecht: A Tribute to Primo Levi and Ann Frank at Stoughton Opera House
- MicroMyco Mushroom Fall Dinner at The Deliciouser
- Premier Trivia at Delta Beer Lab at Delta Beer Lab
- Queer & Trans Open Mic at A Room of One's Own Bookstore
- Sister Juno Wednesday's at The Rigby
- Strangers No Longer: Latino Belonging and Faith in 20th-Century WI at Verona Public Library
- Summoner's Circle, Abolishment of Flesh at Red Rooster Madison
- Trivia Night @ Working Draft Beer Co at Working Draft Beer Company
- Vinyl Listening Party: Otis Redding at Lola's Hi/Lo Lounge
📰 Extra! Extra! Some people look at a tin of canned meat and think of lunch. Others think of art. At least a few sculptors on Madison’s north side do. For 30 years, one artist has hosted a SPAM-carving contest out of his garage, where dozens of sculptors come to carve the jiggly pink meat into artistic creations. (That might be preferable to actually eating it.)
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