Melissa Perry

In 2004, Betha Ortiz Hahn, moved from Canc ú n, Mexico, to Madison. She got a job and tried to fit in, but language was a huge barrier.

"We are moving on this way faster than I feel comfortable with for $50 million,” Ald. Jay Allen said. “This building seems to be a freight train that has its own momentum, regardless of what the council thinks, and it's attempting to run us over.”

Editor's note: February is Black History Month, and the Wisconsin State Journal is highlighting women and men who blazed trails in their fields to have a positive impact on Madison.

“I think it's way too early, especially given the history of the region,” said Dahlia Susel, a greenhouse grower for Felly's Flowers and Garden Center. “We typically tell customers not to plant things until after that last frost day in May.”

HB 5 attacks children and other disadvantaged populations. Kentucky lawmakers are making the cracks that any of us could fall through so much wider.

Melissa Olson and Brian Duckwitz are far from your average couple. Olson is a burlesque fitness class instructor and Duckwitz teaches a lightsaber class.

The idea behind the Dear Black Future project is to collect as many letters as possible, all written with just four words, to detail aspirations for the Black community.

For years, the band NaturoSynth wrote songs, rehearsed and performed at family parties. Then a couple of viral TikTok videos changed the trajectory of the up-and-coming band with Madison roots.

We are deeply committed to our work in primary prevention, calling men and boys in to help change the attitudes and behaviours of their peers that drive men’s violence and abuse.