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Madison Common Council kicks can down the road on new homeless shelter In a 16-1 vote, Madison’s common council punted a decision on a new, east side homeless shelter to May fourth. The property, located on Zeier Road near the East Towne Mall, will cost the city an estimated $2.6 million, plus an additional $400,000 for related acquisition costs. The council’s decision came around 2:00 AM, after hours of emotional public input and tense exchanges — notably between Alder Samba Baldeh and Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway. Baldeh, who represents the district the proposed shelter will be located i...

Since the beginning of the California school shut down in March, Alyssa S. Ho, a junior at California School of Arts, decided to create her own opportunities while all school events and STEM competitions got cancelled.  She reached out to her Stanford AI4All friends from the summer before and formed Full Steam Ahead, a team of six aspiring programmers and designers, ages 14-16 years old from California, New Jersey and Sweden. They wanted to connect girls to STEM with an app, but with the continued mandate on social distancing, Ho directed her team to host their first all-girls international...