After years of planning and a nail-biter of a $4.1 million fund-raising campaign, the Urban League of Greater Madison is moving in to its new headquarters at The Villager at 2222 S. Park St. The moving truck pulled up Friday and office furniture was unloaded into the new facility.
Nov 20, 2009 | 7:00 pm | Loading…
It's happened again. The annual Thanksgiving food drive at Goodman Community Center is way short of food need for 1,000 families as hundreds of volunteers are preparing to pack up the baskets. Read the email below from food pantry coordinator Helen Hazelmare and do the right thing.
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"Everyone needs to be counted, documented or not documented," Shiva Bidar-Sielaff tells fellow members of La Sup, the Madison Latino Support Network. The advocacy group heard from the U.S. Census Bureau this week about its plans to reach out to the local Latino community to first hire, th…
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The unemployment rate is still scary, but that hasn't stopped local residents from continuing to pledge -- mostly at their workplaces -- to support the work of United Way of Dane County.
Nov 19, 2009 | 2:50 pm | Loading…
The Road Home has done it again. The innovative local provider of housing for low-income families is moving four families Friday into apartments it bought and renovated on Vera Court on the city's north side.
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It's November. And that means the Goodman Community Center is circulating its list of needed items for the annual drive to fill 1,000 Thanksgiving baskets for needy families.
Nov 16, 2009 | 12:40 pm | Loading…
One clear desire of the 35 east-siders who came out Friday to the fall forum of the East Isthmus Neighborhoods Planning Council to brainstorm on the future of their neighborhoods is that they want to know their neighbors better.
Nov 14, 2009 | 7:40 am | Loading…
Madison Latinos joined in a national campaign to say basta! (enough!) and press CNN to take commentator Lou Dobbs and his anti-immigration screeds off the air. This week they succeeded, when Dobbs abruptly announced his resignation on-air. Check out
Nov 13, 2009 | 10:45 am | Loading…
Is WYOU, Madison's quirky public access television station, being given the shaft in favor of Madison City Channel - the voice of city government?
Nov 10, 2009 | 10:15 am | Loading…
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