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Remembering Irwin Goodman
on 09/04/09 at 3:03 pm | They say you can't buy happiness. The life of Irwin Goodman proves you can. He didn't buy it for himself, of course, except indirectly -- the happiness he got from the happiness of others, whose lives he and his brother Robert improved through their kindness, decency and exceptional philanthropy. |
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Midge Miller, insider and agitator, dies at 86
on 04/17/09 at 5:00 pm | Former State Rep. Midge Miller defied the political status quo and defined what it meant to be a "West Side Liberal." Her death Friday morning at age 86 ended a life noteworthy for its accomplishments and remarkable for its generosity of spirit. |
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1959: Five decades ago, Madison was embracing the future
on 03/26/09 at 9:00 am | In Madison, the 1960s began in 1959. That spring, John Kennedy and Cassius Clay came to town, as did a friend of Fidel Castro's. Their visits were part of a yearlong parade of personalities and issues that foreshadowed the decade to come. |
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1959: Youths run wild in the streets of Madison
on 03/26/09 at 9:00 am | With almost no serious violent crime in 1959 (no murders, only one manslaughter), Madison's major public safety issue involved gangs of young toughs in nylon jackets on State Street. |
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1959: Sabotaging Monona Terrace
on 03/26/09 at 9:00 am | In 1959, the city got closer to building Frank Lloyd Wright's Monona Terrace than ever before. And then it all fell apart. |
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1959: A bad year for Madison cops
on 03/26/09 at 9:00 am | At around 11 p.m. on Jan. 8, 1959, Madison Police Chief Bruce Weatherly rammed a tanker truck at the intersection of East Washington Avenue and Stoughton Road. |
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1959 Dateline in Madison
on 03/26/09 at 9:00 am | Jan. 20: UW Regents endorse new athletic department policy of refusing to play teams or in locations that require racial segregation. |
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1968: A wild time in Madison
on 08/24/08 at 9:00 am | In 1968, Madison was in fiscal and political disarray. There was chaos and destruction on campus. A large segment of the industrial east side was on strike, and city workers waged sick-leave job actions. The bus system teetered on the edge of failure. Crime spiked. Some Madison men died in Vietnam, while others -- along with some Madison women -- waged their war at home. |
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1968: They said it
on 08/24/08 at 9:00 am | 'I consider myself a radical, but I don't consider myself a revolutionary.' — First-year Madison Ald. Paul Soglin, Dec. 16, 1968 |
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1968: And the band played on
on 08/24/08 at 9:00 am | 1968 was a magnificent year for music in Madison |
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1968: Names in the news
on 08/24/08 at 9:00 am | Army coach Bobby Knight, 27, is named the UW’s new head basketball coach on April 24. Knight considers the announcement “premature,” and angrily declines the job. |
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Madison, oh Madison
on 11/15/07 at 10:00 am | The city of Madison was not so named because its future inhabitants were expected to reflect the life, career and spirit of James Madison, primary author of the Constitution and Bill of Rights and fourth president of the United States. |
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Raising Hell for Justice: The Washington Battles of a Heartland Progressive
on 09/14/07 at 10:00 am | How did an angry kid from an unhappy working-class home in Wausau become the longest-serving member of Congress in Wisconsin history and the powerful chair of the House Appropriations Committee? |
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Turning points
on 11/30/06 at 3:45 pm | The past matters because the past lives. Land-use and
development decisions made generations ago (some before the city even existed) have set Madison's present reality, just as actions taken today will define its future. |
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Movers & Shapers
on 02/17/06 at 2:04 pm | Many men, and a few women, have had a major impact on Madison, shaping the city that celebrates its 150th birthday this spring. Excluding governors and university presidents, whose impact depended on statewide political and financial forces, these are the 10 who have mattered most. |
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