City leaders shoot down proposal to preserve view from historic building Close Close
Last night, the Madison Common Council shot down a proposal to preserve a unique lake view for an early Frank Lloyd Wright building.
It’s Wright’s earliest surviving work in Madison. Built more than a century ago for his childhood friend Robert Lamp, the house provided expansive views of the downtown area, and of Lakes Mendota and Monona.
The house now sits secluded from street view, behind houses and apartment buildings and bounded by North Webster, East Mifflin and North Butler Streets.
The Lamp House is currently an apartment building, surrounded by new developments and sightlines to Lake Monona and the Capitol have been cut off. Only Lake Mendota is partially visible from the third floor of the house.
Madison Common Council to accept final report, policy on police-worn body cameras
July 6, 2021 4:34 PM Jamie Perez
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MADISON, Wis. Madison’s Common Council will vote whether or not to accept the final report and policy on police worn body cameras at its meeting tonight.
Item #80 on council’s agenda includes the final report by the Police Body-Worn Camera Feasibility Review Committee. The near 60-page document highlights the pros and cons of having Madison police officers adopt a body camera pilot program. It also details accounts from a handful of local community groups speaking for and against the idea.
District 6 alder and Public Safety Review Committee member Brian Benford said, “The general sentiment is that they’re good, but if you really dive deeper and look at some of the peripheral impacts, negative impacts of body worn cameras, then as a community we have to do our due diligence and hit the brakes on this and really take a loo
By Naomi Kowles
Jul 2, 2021 | 5:34 PM
Hardly a day goes by that Brittany Grogan doesnât watch reckless drivers on East Washington Avenue from her Galaxie apartment building balcony.
The sirens woke her early last Saturday morning, when 30-year-old Sean Crisco was killed in a hit-and-run at the intersection just outside the building.
âLiving here, I often feel concerned for my safety and safety of other people around here.â
Then came Friday morningâand with it another death, this time two miles up the road as a 57-year-old man tried to cross the crosswalk at the Pawling Street intersection on his bicycle. He was in it when he was hitâand killed.
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