Dan Fitch
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Goodbye, Halloween House
An inexplicable Tenney-Lapham landmark has gone quietly into that spooky night.
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Guest column: Under Mnookin, UW-Madison is repeating its COVID-19 mistakes
Campus workers and community members address the new Chancellor’s lax safety plan for fall, and her responses to COVID concerns.
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Digging into the latest opposition to a smaller Dane County Jail
Dane County skirts meaningful reform and looks to bypass resistance to building a new jail.
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The Dane County Board pairs more jail funding with toothless calls for reform
Another absurd, expensive, and politically craven turn in the drawn-out quest to build new cages.
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New co-responder programs for mental health crises offer different approaches—including whether they send police to the scene
Who can you expect to show up when you call for help in Madison?
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Misframing decisions about the County jail does the public a disservice
Dismantling is difficult. Making the same mistakes is easy.
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Public health, public safety, and the people caught in the coils
What’s in Dane County’s 2022 budget for care and incarceration.
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When it comes to cash bail, Dane County has too many blind spots
A deeper look at who gets stuck in jail pre-trial and how we got here.









