LOCAL NEWS
November on the Isthmus: Madison Between the Lakes and the Freeze
The Capitol dome over a turning city, the lakes cooling toward ice, farmers' market moving indoors — Madison's most Madison month begins.
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POLITICS
Election Day in Madison: Polls 7 to 8, Photo ID, and the Absentee Deadline That Is Absolute
Everything Madison and Dane County voters need for Tuesday, Nov. 3 — including same-day registration at your polling place, and why a completed absentee ballot must be hand-delivered now.
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LOCAL NEWS
The University That Is Half the Skyline: UW–Madison, Explained
Some 50,000 students, a research enterprise over a billion dollars, and a football stadium at the neighborhood's heart — the University of Wisconsin–Madison is the city's co-capital. A guide for the rest of us.
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LOCAL NEWS
Eight Blocks That Explain Madison: State Street
No cars, all city: State Street runs from the Capitol to the campus through bookstores, theaters, buskers and argument. A walking guide to Madison's front sidewalk in its winter season.
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WEATHER
First Snow, Last Boats: Madison's November and the Coming of the Ice
November brings Madison its first real snow, the lakes' long cooling, and the wait for safe ice. What the month does to a city built on a chain of lakes.
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TRAFFIC
One Isthmus, Every Car: Madison's Traffic Geometry
All of Madison must squeeze across a mile-wide neck of land — or around the Beltline. John Nolen Drive, East Washington, the Square loop and the winter rules, mapped.
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INVESTIGATIONS
The Isthmus Squeeze: Madison's Growth Argument, From the Air
Madison is one of America's fastest-growing mid-size cities, building upward on a fixed isthmus. Our investigations desk opens the housing file: the cranes, the zoning fights, and the rents.
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SPORTS
November at Camp Randall: The Badgers' Season Comes Home to the Cold
There is no November ritual in Wisconsin like a Camp Randall Saturday — 80,000 people, the fifth quarter, and Big Ten football in its natural weather. The home stretch, from the city's seat.
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LOCAL NEWS
Nine Branches and a Dream Bus: The Madison Public Library
From the Central Library's glass floors to the neighborhood branches and the mobile Dream Bus, Madison's library system is the city's most distributed institution. What the card opens.
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LOCAL NEWS
The Most Studied Lake in the World: Mendota and the Yahara Chain
Lake Mendota has been researched continuously for over a century — and its algae, ice dates and water clarity are Madison's environmental vital signs. The science of the city's four lakes.
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LOCAL NEWS
The Square in Winter: The Farmers' Market Moves Inside
The Dane County Farmers' Market — America's largest producers-only market — trades the Capitol Square for its winter home as November turns. How the market works, and why it matters beyond the produce.
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LOCAL NEWS
A Tropical Pavilion in a Northern Winter: Olbrich's November
Olbrich Botanical Gardens holds sixteen acres of Wisconsin gardens — and the only Thai pavilion in the continental United States, with a glasshouse of the tropics beside it. November is when the Bolz Conservatory earns its keep.
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LOCAL NEWS
Wright's Gift, Sixty Years Late: Monona Terrace
Frank Lloyd Wright proposed a civic center on Lake Monona in 1938. Madison argued for six decades and built it in 1997. The story of the city's most argued-over building — and its November season on the ice-bound lake.
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LOCAL NEWS
Free as Always: Henry Vilas Zoo, Madison's Century-Old Gift
One of the last free zoos in America, willed to the city in 1911 on the condition it charge nothing, forever. Vilas Zoo's animals, its county future, and its quiet November season.
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