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Council debates final action on JDS proposal By Negassi Tesfamichael the daily cardinal

The Madison Common Council worked well into the night Tuesday, debating adoption of a $200 million downtown redevelopment plan Tuesday during a special session. As of press time, the council had not reached a vote. The Judge Doyle Square project, one of the largest proposals from the 2012 Downtown Plan to receive legislative action, includes a corporate headquarters for the biotechnology company Exact Sciences, as well as a 216-room hotel and retail space. The plan also would add a public and private parking space. The city “seeks to increase property values, a lifeblood for future programs, add employment, and create opportunities for development,” said George Austin, director of the Judge Doyle Square project. “The city saw a significant opportunity to

increase the tax base and employment, as well as retain and grow business, for the Monona Terrace Convention Center.” City negotiators received four proposals in May for the redevelopment plan, which will replace the aging Government East parking garage and surrounding area on the 200 block of South Pinckney Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard. In July, the Common Council approved a measure to negotiate exclusively with JDS Development and Exact Sciences, who submitted the current proposal. The public would pay $67.1 million for the redevelopment overall, which is a part of the 2016 Capital Budget. Exact Sciences currently employs about 200 people. The resolution requires the company to provide 400 jobs by 2019. Amid doubts about the success of Exact Sciences, CEO Kevin

Conroy emphasized the work his company does to combat cancer. “We’re really one of the only companies focused on early detection of colon cancer,” said Conroy. “Everyone’s talking about drugs that will help win this war. It’s early detection that we need.” Downtown Madison Inc. President Susan Schmitz voiced support for Judge Doyle Square, citing a need to bring revenue from outside Madison. “Downtown Madison needs an economic development strategy to attract traded sector employers that provide goods and services that can be sent outside of Madison, thus bring new money in,” Schmitz said. “We can’t just shift local money around.” Schmitz said 44 percent of the downtown workforce is in public administration and that “over time, it will not support the housing, retail, services and schools’ needs of the city.”

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Tuesday, Sept. 29, was National Coffee Day. Campus coffee connoisseurs and average joes alike celebrated the occasion with warm mugs and steaming plates of homework. + Photo by Will Chizek

Gov. Walker hints at justice appointment By Lucas Sczygelski The daily cardinal

Two of three judges running for the Wisconsin state Supreme Court signaled Tuesday that they will not seek an interim appointment from Gov. Scott Walker to finish out Justice N. Patrick Crooks’ term following his sudden passing earlier this month. The two judges said they worry an appointment to the court prior to April’s election could grant an incumbent’s edge to one of the candidates. “The Governor should not appoint any of the three declared

candidates, nor anyone else who is considering a run,” said candidate Judge Joe Donald in a Tuesday statement. “Wisconsin doesn’t need a coronation, it needs a Supreme Court justice who earns the support of Wisconsin voters.” Judge Rebecca Bradley has not yet said whether she will accept an appointment, although she has a history of being promoted by the governor. The conservative judge was appointed by Walker to the Milwaukee County Circuit Court in 2012 and

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George Austin, the director of the Judge Doyle Square project, said the $200 million redevelopment plan was the first city initiative since the adoption of the 2012 Downtown Plan.

Director of financial aid retires after three decades

Sen. Ron Johnson seeks answers about fetal tissue policy

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By Andrew Bahl the daily cardinal

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., joined three other members of Congress Tuesday in a letter questioning the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ policies regarding the sale of fetal tissue. Johnson, along with U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Joni

Ernst, R-Iowa, took issue with the administration’s oversight of federally funded organizations that use fetal tissue in a letter to HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell. The letter is in response to videos released in July by anti-abortion activists that allegedly show Planned Parenthood executives discussing the sale of fetal tissue,

a practice that violates federal law. “Shocking videos have revealed that Planned Parenthood, as an organization, is vested in the barbaric practice of harvesting human organs for revenue,” Johnson said in a statement. “All Americans, regardless of their views on abor-

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After spending decades helping many UW-Madison students pay for a college education, director of the Office of Financial Aid Susan Fischer will retire this week, ending a career that started by chance in 1979. Fischer earned a degree in natural resources and soils without financial aid. She paid for school by working and

through help from her parents and grandmother, according to a university release. Fischer returned to UW-Madison to pursue a second undergraduate degree. When she ran out of money to pursue her degree, she began a temporary job in the financial aid office, filing and processing applications. She found she enjoyed the

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“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”


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