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			<title><![CDATA[Dane County Board chair expects 911 audit approval]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286600</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Dane County Board Chairman Scott McDonell said in a memo to county supervisors today that he expects a June 4 meeting of the Executive Committee will approve an independent audit of the county&#39;s troubled 911 Center.   McDonell also used the memo to take a swipe at conservative supervisors who have called for a town hall meeting Monday night in Fitchburg to explore problems which have emerged in the system during the investigation of a Madison ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Police to meet with Marino family]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286605</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Madison Police Department, repeatedly criticized by a Madison family unhappy with the lack of progress in solving their son&#39;s murder, has offered to meet with the murder victim&#39;s father again next week.  Madison Police Chief Noble Wray and Assistant Chief Randy Gaber have invited Lou Marino, whose son Joel was murdered in his West Shore Drive home in January, to sit down with them Tuesday afternoon to discuss the case, the department said in a ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Activists protest proposed coal plant]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286589</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Protesters demonstrated&nbsp;Thursday against a coal-powered power plant proposed by Alliant Energy Corp. at Cassville, heartened by an environmental impact statement by state officials that said the proposed plant was &quot;not the least cost option under any scenario.&quot;  That statement, in a draft EIS by the Public Service Commission and the Department of Natural Resources, fueled protests by more than 70 environmentalists -- some on bicycles -- chanting &quot;No more coal,&quot; prior to Alliant&#39;s annual shareholder meeting ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anita Weier]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Charter to track customer browsing; pilot program outside Wisconsin]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286500</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Charter Communications is preparing to begin testing a program under which it will track the browsing habits of its high-speed Internet customers in order to send them targeted ads, providing a new revenue stream for the company but raising privacy and legality concerns.   The program was reported Tuesday by Broadbandreports.com and confirmed Thursday by Ted Schremp, senior vice president of Product Management &amp; Strategy for Charter.   Schremp said in an e-mail interview Wednesday that ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Richgels]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[UW chancellor search: Blank offers unique perspectives]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286621</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ In the contest to be named the next chancellor at UW-Madison, Rebecca Blank is an outsider in more ways than one.  Of the four finalists to replace John Wiley as leader of Wisconsin&#39;s flagship university, Blank is the only one who has never spent at least a couple years in Madison -- although she was a visiting fellow at the UW in the fall of 1985.  Blank is also the only candidate who has significant experience working ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Todd Finkelmeyer]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[School Board&#39;s Carstensen gets fond farewell]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286478</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ More than 100 friends, colleagues, family members and parents showed up at a farewell party Wednesday at Olbrich Gardens to say goodbye and thank you to Carol Carstensen, who served six terms on the Madison School Board and stepped down after the spring elections.  &quot;There will never be another Carol Carstensen. I will predict that,&quot; said School Board member Johnny Winston Jr. &quot;There will never be another School Board member in this community that will serve ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Samara Kalk Derby]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Reaction sour to Royster-Clark coal storage idea]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286540</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ An area businessman envisions the former Royster-Clark fertilizer plant on Madison&#39;s east side as a coal and rock salt storage and distribution point.  Paul Tesmer, president of Capitol Warehousing Corp. in the town of Windsor, said this week he would like to used domed storage areas at the site to store and transfer rock salt for area municipalities and coal for the University of Wisconsin&#39;s Charter Street heating plant.  Tesmer stressed he had not yet approached the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pat Schneider]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Facebook feature can amuse, enlighten -- or annoy]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286565</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Ryan Zeinert has a wife, job and a blog, obligations that sometimes leave him little time to keep in touch with friends and others. Since he bought a house last month, time has become an even scarcer commodity. The last thing he has time for is gabbing on the phone with a gang of people.   Fortunately, Zeinert, 27, can communicate effortlessly with hundreds of people simultaneously through the popular social networking site Facebook. Using the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan J. CompSpecial to The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[&#39;WisOpinion: The Show,&#39; featuring John Nichols]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286417</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ BRIGHTCOVE[1554364906]  Republican strategist John Murray and progressive pundit John Nichols dissect the election-year state budget deal, hash over  the possible impact of the 911 controversy on Kathleen Falk&#39;s future and preview this weekend&#39;s state Republican Party convention in Stevens Point.   &quot;WisOpinion.com: The Show&quot; is presented by the Capital Times. ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[One last encore: 2 of Madison&#39;s favorite groups call it quits]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285607</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The moment comes in every band&#39;s life, unless it hits big and stays big.  The big questions begin to loom: Is this the right path? Is the struggle worth it? Is this working?   Then there&#39;s the biggest question of all: What else is there?  Two popular Madison bands have come to that moment almost simultaneously, and their decisions will surely leave a gap in the city&#39;s music scene. On Saturday, alt-country favorites the Junkers will play their ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane Burns]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[UW-Madison chancellor search: Mulcahy says UW can&#39;t rest on laurels]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286431</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ If you are in the camp that believes all is well at UW-Madison, Tim Mulcahy may not be the perfect fit to replace John Wiley as the next chancellor.  Mulcahy, who spent 20 years at UW-Madison before leaving to become vice president for research at the University of Minnesota in February of 2005, isn&#39;t afraid to note that he&#39;ll be asking some tough questions and pushing for plenty of change, if needed, should he be appointed ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Todd Finkelmeyer]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[&#39;Jeopardy&#39; experience a dream come true for UW-Madison student]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286414</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ She knew her Brewers, Bucks and Packers. She even surprised herself by knowing Flavor Flav.  But a bit of history that involved President John Tyler and Texas stumped Suchita Shah, and the UW-Madison senior saw her run on &quot;Jeopardy!&quot; end in a semifinal that aired on Wednesday. By making it that far, she won $10,000 at the college tournament that was filmed at the Kohl Center last month.  &quot;I was wavering between California and Texas at the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane Burns]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Controversial tax exemption for low-income housing providers survives in budget bill]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286409</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A provision included in the budget repair deal passed by the state legislature this week has taxpayer advocates, legislators and city officials scratching their heads because nobody seems to know who put it there or what it will do.  The provision, inserted quietly in a legislative proposal to fix a $527 million hole in the budget, would expand property tax exemptions for low-income housing, but would have no effect on the state&#39;s budget because the provision ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Elbow]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[UW climatologist&#39;s research leads to polar bears being listed as threatened species]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286384</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The U.S. Department of the Interior has listed the polar bear as a threatened species, the first major listing based largely on the effects of climate change.  The decision announced Wednesday by Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne was based in large part on research by University of Wisconsin-Madison climatologist Eric DeWeaver.  DeWeaver used climate models to predict how global changes in coming decades will likely affect the Arctic, particularly with regard to summertime sea ice, a critical part ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anita Weier]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cop &#39;feels great&#39; about her lifesaving role at frat]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286292</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Madison Police Officer Angie Dyhr realizes that had she happened upon the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity fire even five minutes later, the result could have been devastating.  Dyhr, 33, a mother of three, was patrolling Langdon Street in her squad car when she noticed what appeared to be a campfire or a grill fire in the back of 237 Langdon St.   So she pulled in the driveway and notified dispatch right away.   Two weeks earlier she ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Samara Kalk Derby]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Edwards backs Obama]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286419</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a move designed to help solidify support for the party&#39;s likely presidential nominee even as Hillary Rodham Clinton refuses to give up her long-shot candidacy.  Edwards made a surprise appearance with Obama in Grand Rapids, Mich., as the Illinois senator campaigns in a critical general election battleground state.  The endorsement came a day after Clinton defeated Obama by more than 2-to-1 in the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-14T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Criminal minds? Some say justice system fails inmates with fetal alcohol disorders]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285900</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Tyler Mills lost nearly 25 pounds over the course of three weeks, but his jailers didn&#39;t see anything alarming about that. It was his choice to stop eating, his choice to stop drinking, his choice to swallow the toothbrush that was lodged in his stomach.  Sauk County Jail officials deemed it a behavior issue, not a medical one. It could be handled with discipline -- solitary confinement, suspension of privileges, physical restraints.  On June 8, 2006, jail ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Elbow]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Who calls the shots, UW or UW athletics?]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285898</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ It&#39;s no secret that some on the UW-Madison campus believe the athletic department operates more like an autonomous empire than a subset of the university.  That friction got a public airing May 5 when Walter Dickey, associate dean of the UW Law School and chairman of the Athletic Board, which is charged with oversight of the athletic department, was challenged on the maverick ways of the athletic department while delivering his annual report to the Faculty ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Todd Finkelmeyer]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Homeless advocate for themselves, but does it work?]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286125</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A dozen of them sit huddled together against the chill on a recent Friday in the Brittingham Park shelter -- schooled in bracing against the wind by stints of living on the street -- to hear about the neighborhood&#39;s reaction to their presence.  People -- mothers -- say they&#39;re scared, reports Aaron Crandall, a founder of the newly formed Monona Bay Neighborhood Association.   &quot;You don&#39;t have any idea about our lifestyle,&quot; Robert McGee tells Crandall. &quot;Come ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pat Schneider]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Anyone there? Disconnected call to 911 wasn&#39;t returned]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286171</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Joe Norwick prefers talking about how, since becoming Dane County&#39;s 911 Center director in July, he&#39;s slashed overtime by 50 percent, added 10 new staff members and moved ahead with more than $30 million in upgrades to a highly complex computer, radio and telephone emergency network serving more than 400,000 county residents.  What Norwick doesn&#39;t like talking about is how often his dispatchers skirt a county policy requiring them to verify -- with a follow-up call ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan J. CompCorrespondent for The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Update: Frat fire cause unknown; damage estimated at $750,000]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286082</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Instead of cramming for finals, 25 members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity sat on a Metro Transit bus early this morning at the corner of Langdon and Frances streets keeping warm as dozens of Madison firefighters battled a massive fire that enveloped their fraternity house.   The fire department got the first call at 11:41 p.m. Monday after a city of Madison police officer noticed a glow that she thought was a grill at the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Samara Kalk Derby]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[UW-Madison chancellor search: Martin offers &#39;fresh pair of eyes&#39;]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286231</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Carolyn Martin knows UW-Madison.  She was a lecturer at the university in the early 1980s and earned her doctorate from UW-Madison in 1985 in German Literature.  Yet Martin, who has spent more than 20 years at Cornell University, an Ivy League school in Ithaca, N.Y., also brings an outsider&#39;s perspective in her quest to become UW-Madison&#39;s next chancellor.  &quot;It&#39;s always an advantage to know a place and to love a place, and then also to have had experiences ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Todd Finkelmeyer]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Memorial High grad eats up &#39;Spamalot&#39; role]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286150</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Not many people get killed by a terrorist rabbit.  But as one of the Knights of the Round Table in the touring production of &quot;Monty Python&#39;s Spamalot,&quot; former Madisonian Darryl Semira suffers that ignoble, if side-splitting, fate.  The Tony-winning Broadway musical, directed by the famed Mike Nichols, opened Tuesday night at the Overture Center, where it will run for eight performances through Sunday. (For information about performance times and tickets, call the center&#39;s box office at 258-4141 ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Stockinger]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Historic Utica Store set to close]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286192</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ After 136 years of serving southeastern Dane County, the Utica Store is closing its doors on June 1.  Maybe.  Barney Lambert and Jackie Sperle, who have operated this friendly store selling the essentials of life, are closing a 30-year chapter of their lives as owners, operators, counselors, advisers, sympathizers and providers to a unique community of farmers and rural residents.  The little store at the corner of County W and County B, about halfway between Stoughton and Cambridge, ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Oncken]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dead bats tested here for mysterious syndrome]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286175</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ About 100 bats that died of a mysterious syndrome in the northeastern United States are being analyzed at the U.S. Geological Survey&#39;s National Wildlife Health Center in Madison.  The illness, which has resulted in the deaths of thousands of bats found since March at more than 25 caves and mines, is referred to as &quot;white-nose syndrome&quot; because of a white substance on the muzzles and wings of dead and hibernating bats.  The condition was first observed in ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anita Weier]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[County: &#39;We are making progress&#39; on 911 center]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286132</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ In the wake of the Brittany Zimmermann phone call to the Dane County 911 center, staffing of the center has improved, and more equipment is coming, according to the chair of the committee overseeing the center.  &quot;The good news is we are making progress in the strategic plan for the 911 center,&quot; said County Board Supervisor Brett Hulsey. &quot;But questions remain on how we deal with hang-ups and how to educate people to take 911 off ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Novak]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Doyle not happy with state budget deal]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285980</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Gov.
Jim Doyle hinted today that a budget repair compromise proposed by
legislative leaders may be a target for his veto pen, which despite a
recently enacted constitutional amendment scaling back his veto powers,
is nonetheless a force to be reckoned with. &quot;I think I&#39;ll have plenty of veto power left,&quot; he said.  Assembly
Speaker Mike Huebsch and Senate Majority Leader Russ Decker earlier in
the day announced a budget repair compromise to fix the state&#39;s $527
budget deficit. The plan would add $69 ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Elbow]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Med Flight helicopter didn&#39;t have recommended safety gear]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286015</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The UW Med Flight helicopter that crashed near La Crosse did not have two pieces of safety technology recommended by the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration, but an official of the company that owned the craft said Monday it was installing them as quickly as it could on its 330-craft fleet.  Mike Allen, senior vice president at Denver-based Air Methods, said the helicopter was not equipped with a computerized voice system to warn ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pat Schneider]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[UW-Madison chancellor search: Sandefur stresses relationships]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286028</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ If Gary Sandefur earns the nod as the next chancellor of UW-Madison, the soft-spoken dean of the UW&#39;s College of Letters and Sciences hopes to build a better university one relationship at a time.  &quot;I think building relationships is something that is very important for the next chancellor, no matter who that person is,&quot; Sandefur said during a news conference Monday at the Memorial Union. &quot;I would want to try and build relationships not only with ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Todd Finkelmeyer]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Children&#39;s museum details plans for new location]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285999</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Madison Children&#39;s Museum unveiled plans for its new home Monday to a crowd of local civic leaders who museum officials hope will help send its capital fund drive to the $10 million goal.  The popular downtown museum, now located at the top of State Street, will move to its new location at another corner of the Square as soon as J.H. Findorff &amp; Son remodels the 79-year-old, 41,570-square-foot building that was a gift from W. ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[West side murder suspect nabbed in Chicago]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=286018</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Long-sought murder suspect James P. Bohanan was arrested Monday afternoon in Chicago, the Madison Police Department said.  Bohanan, who celebrated his 35th birthday Friday, was arrested by a team of investigators from the U.S. Marshal&#39;s Service, the Great Lakes Regional Task Force and the Chicago Police Department&#39;s Fugitive Squad at about 1:30 p.m. in a Chicago apartment.  Bohanan has been wanted since last summer, when he was accused of shooting and killing Kevin Cobbins, 26, at a ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[&#39;It&#39;s just terrible. It&#39;s such a loss.&#39;]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285807</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Thoughts and prayers are pouring in for the UW Hospital Med Flight crew of three killed Saturday night when the helicopter crashed on a bluff near La Crosse.   UW Health set up a tribute web site for Dr. Darren Bean, nurse Mark Coyne and pilot Steve Lipperer and as of 8 a.m. Monday, three dozen messages had been posted, many from colleagues at UW Hospital, as well as from hospitals around the state.   The ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamira Madsen, Steve Elbow and Bill Novak]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[UW chancellor search heats up]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285840</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ University of Wisconsin System President Kevin Reilly last week announced the four finalists being considered for the position of chancellor at UW-Madison.  But the preliminaries are over.  Now is when the process to name John Wiley&#39;s successor truly begins to heat up.  Starting Monday and running through Thursday, each of the finalists to become the next leader of Wisconsin&#39;s flagship university -- with 40,000 students, 16,000 employees and an annual operating budget of $2.2 billion -- will interact ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Todd Finkelmeyer]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Studies show hike in EMS aircraft crashes]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285826</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Twenty-three years of accident-free medical rescues by UW Med Flight ended in tragedy Saturday, with the fatal nighttime crash of an American Eurocopter EC 135 helicopter on a wooded bluff five miles outside downtown La Crosse on a return trip to Madison after ferrying a patient to a La Crosse hospital.  The craft lost contact with the airport shortly after take-off at 10:48 p.m. Killed in the crash were Dr. Darren Bean, nurse Mark Coyne and ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pat Schneider]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Nurse, EMS instructor Coyne &#39;really affected a lot of people&#39;]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285825</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Mark Coyne loved sailing, flying and Jimmy Buffett. But most of all, he loved teaching emergency medical services.  &quot;Just a couple weeks ago, we were both talking shop about EMS,&quot; said his friend, Todd Cole. &quot;He said, &#39;You know, I really make a difference with what I do. Teaching really means something. I&#39;ve really affected a lot of people.&#39;  &quot;I said, &#39;You absolutely have, Mark.&#39; It was one of those comments that was so true.&quot;  Coyne, 54, was ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane Burns]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lipperer was Med Flight pilot for 8 years]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285822</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Steve Lipperer, the pilot of the Med Flight helicopter that crashed Saturday night near La Crosse, was recently married to Dr. Desiree La Charite, a Med Flight physician since 2001. The couple lives in the town of Westport.   Lipperer had been with Med Flight for eight years and had been a pilot for more than 20 years, the Wisconsin State Journal reported.  The plane crashed Saturday night about four miles from La Crosse. The two-man crew ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Samara Kalk Derby]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dr. Bean was always busy, &#39;got so much done&#39;]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285817</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ To say Dr. Darren Bean was a high achiever would be an understatement.  Besides his role as a Med Flight physician for six years and the Madison Fire Department&#39;s medical director for the past 16 months, he was the director of ultrasound for the UW Hospital emergency department, according to UW Hospital&#39;s Web site. He was a member of the hospital&#39;s mulidisciplinary trauma committee and the Regional Trauma Advisory Committee.  An assistant professor with the UW School ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Elbow]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Doctor taught mayor, city officials on resuscitation technique]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285820</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Dr. Darren Bean spent time teaching cardiocerebral resuscitation to Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz and members of the Madison City Council and Madison Rotary Club over the past six weeks.  Bean, along with nurse Mark Coyne and pilot Steve Lipperer, died in a Med Flight helicopter crash near La Crosse Saturday night, and Cieslewicz said he became acquainted with Bean and his work over the past year.  &quot;All three of the men dying is, of course, a terrible ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamira Madsen]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[&#39;MAMA&#39;s going to make it all all right&#39;]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285805</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Malfunctioning gear, squabbling bandmates, declining CD sales&nbsp;-- no matter what local musicians have to deal with, at least &quot;MAMA&#39;s going to make it all all right.&quot;  So sang the Gomers to kick off the fifth annual Madison Area Music Awards at the Barrymore Theatre on Saturday night, a chance for Madison musicians to honor each other and raise money for local music school programs. (The Capital Times&#39; 77 Square was a sponsor of the MAMAs.)  Last year, ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rob Thomas]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Roller derby finals photo gallery]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285808</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Quad Squad defeated the Reservoir Dolls 98-87 in the championship game of the The Mad Rollin&#39; Dolls&#39; fourth season Saturday at Fast Forward Skate Center in Madison.  It was the second title for the Quad Squad in the past three years.  In the third-place game, the Unholy Rollers defeated the Vaudeville Vixens. ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[No surprises in school budget, but referendum looms]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285755</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Facing a possible referendum and $9.2 million hole for the 2009-10 school year, no major alterations are anticipated to the school 2008-09 budget that will be finalized Monday by Madison School Board members.  When new superintendent Dan Nerad starts in July, referendum discussion will come to the forefront for the Madison Metropolitan School District. If Board members decide to propose a referendum, which could occur as early as November, they will request taxpayers consider overriding state-imposed ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tamira Madsen]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-10T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama&#39;s bracelet a constant reminder of Wisconsin mother, soldier]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285632</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama still has Wisconsin on his mind.   In the victory speech he gave after winning the North Carolina primary and almost winning the Indiana primary Tuesday, the Democratic presidential candidate celebrated his best night since he swept the Feb. 19 voting in the Badger state.   And he did so by recalling an incident on the campaign trail in Wisconsin and suggesting that he is strengthened in his resolve to win the nomination and the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Nichols]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Sheriff defends actions on immigrants]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285671</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Dane County will not become a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants, Sheriff Dave Mahoney said Friday.  &quot;It&#39;s not going to happen,&quot; Mahoney said in an interview recapping his meeting last week with a leader in the Union de Trabajadores Inmigrantes (Immigrant Workers Union or UTI) after a rally on the steps of the City-County Building.  Several hundred protesters -- some waving a cartoon of Mahoney&#39;s face followed by &quot;=ICE&quot; -- marched from Brittingham Park to the City-County Building ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pat Schneider]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Two killed in Dodge County crash]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285749</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ BEAVER DAM&nbsp;-- A 41-year-old man and his 19-year-old son&nbsp;were killed and two women injured Friday afternoon when a car ran a red light at an intersection and struck another vehicle on County B, according to the Dodge County Sheriff&#39;s Department.  The car with two female passengers exited off ramp U.S. 151 and was traveling west toward County B in the town of Beaver Dam, when it failed to stop at a traffic light about 2 p.m. ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-10T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TV networks urged not to rush to Web]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285634</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ TV broadcasters and cable networks shouldn&#39;t abandon their traditional mode of business and rush to the Web, a new study reports.  &quot;There is no current economic rationale for broadcasters and cable networks to abandon traditional TV or attempt to accelerate a transition to a total online model,&quot; Convergence Consulting Group&#39;s sixth annual &quot;The Battle for the North American Couch Potato&quot; report states. &quot;To do so would put $66 billion in traditional TV advertising revenue and $30 ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Richgels]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[World equestrian champ makes jump to nursing]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285644</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ When Tara Streff puts her mind to something, there&#39;s no doing it halfway.  A world equestrian champion by age 17, Streff has applied that same drive, discipline, determination and passion to her career in nursing.  One might think Streff, after spending years with horses, would have chosen to become a veterinarian after graduating from Monroe High School in 2002. But she knew in her heart that she wanted to help people.  &quot;After seeing the birth of a horse, ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Lundey]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Heroin dealer flies into rage after sentencing]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285596</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Adrian Starks flew into a rage Friday as Dane County Circuit Judge Patrick Fiedler sentenced him to 24 years in prison for causing two deaths by heroin dealing in Madison in 2005, screamed &quot;F--- you!&quot;&nbsp;to the judge and tipped over a large water cooler as he stormed from the courtroom as bailiffs struggled to get him under control.   Earlier in the hearing, Starks maintained he was innocent of the two counts of homicide by heroin ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Police honor fallen officers (with photo gallery)]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285656</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ More than 300 law enforcement officers from throughout Wisconsin assembled on the Capitol Square Friday, with squad cars and horses, as they honored three fallen comrades in the annual Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony.  Those honored this year included Officer Jackie Ryden of the Prescott Police Department, Deputy Frank Fabiano Jr. of the Kenosha County Sheriff&#39;s office and Deputy Jason S. Zunker of the Chippewa County Sheriff&#39;s Office, all of whom died in the line of duty. ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[UW student advances on &#39;Jeopardy!&#39;]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285613</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ UW-Madison senior Suchita Shah didn&#39;t win her first-round game on &quot;Jeopardy!&quot; but she survived to play into the show&#39;s second week.  Shah, a senior from Holmen, Wis., will appear on Wednesday&#39;s program after making enough money in her first-round game to earn one of the wild-card spots.   Shah led throughout much of her game that aired on Thursday, losing the lead when a contestant from the University of Michigan scored big on the Daily Double on ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jane Burns]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Premium gas hits $4 a gallon in Wisconsin]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285531</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ It was inevitable, but it&#39;s still hard to take.   For the first time ever, gas hit the $4 mark in Wisconsin -- for premium unleaded.   &quot;It&#39;s a sad day,&quot; said AAA Wisconsin public affairs director Pam Moen. &quot;This is the first time the daily fuel gauge report in Wisconsin has the first digit as a &#39;4.&#39; &quot;   The $4.03 per gallon average price in Wisconsin is for premium unleaded gasoline. Regular unleaded gasoline in Wisconsin ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Novak]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[911 director apologizes to Zimmermann family, public, media]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285490</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Embattled 911 Center Director Joe Norwick made an about-face Thursday evening, offering a public apology seven days after telling reporters &quot;there&#39;s nothing to apologize for&quot; regarding how his department handled a 911 call made from Brittany Zimmermann&#39;s cell phone around the time she was murdered.  Zimmermann, 21, was found murdered in her downtown apartment on April 2. Sources tell The Capital Times that she was stabbed. Last week it was revealed that a 911 dispatcher, after ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nathan J. Comp]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-08T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Home of slain principal&#39;s widow is makeover finalist]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285411</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The home of Sue Klang, the widow of the Weston High School principal who was shot while disarming a student in 2006, has a good chance of receiving a makeover courtesy of the popular &quot;Extreme Makeover: Home Edition&quot; television show.  Julie Lewis, a teacher in the district, made the nomination.  &quot;I have been asked by &#39;Extreme Home Makeover&#39; not to make any comments to the newspapers. They asked that we do not speak, and we do not ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anita Weier]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-08T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Pilot honored 50 years after death in Lake Monona]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285481</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Dane County Board Thursday night honored Gerald Stull, an Air Force flyer who crashed his jet into Lake Monona 50 years ago this week, thus preventing the disabled plane from hitting homes in neighborhoods near the lake and undoubtedly saving lives while he sacrificed his own.   Stull, 26, and a new father, was on a routine training flight from Truax Field and was returning to the base when his $2 million F-102A jet fighter ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike Miller]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-08T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Overture unveils &#39;08-&#39;09 season lineup]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285437</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ As it looks forward to its fifth season of events, Madison&#39;s Overture Center -- the state&#39;s largest performing arts presenter -- wants to extend its appeal to both seasoned arts-goers and the general public.  More cutting-edge events, more children&#39;s shows and more classical music, as well as the introduction of cabaret-like dinner theater on the stage of the Capitol Theater, are some of the highlights of the &quot;Overture Presents&quot; performance series for the 2008-09 season.  The events ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Stockinger]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-08T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[&#39;World&#39;s Largest Coffee Break&#39; takes a sip for fair trade]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285527</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ It&#39;s being billed as the &quot;World&#39;s Largest Coffee Break.&quot;  On Saturday, local residents can sip coffee -- Fair Trade, of course -- with thousands of others across the globe to show support for fair trade practices during several local events celebrating World Fair Trade Day.  The World Fair Trade Festival at Hometown Junction Park in Verona, 300 S. Main St., and A Greater Gift, 2701 Monroe St.,&nbsp;will participate in a global sip-a-thon at 2 p.m. These will ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lynn Welch]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[John Nichols: Barrett will shake up District 3 race]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285341</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ LONE ROCK -- Kevin Barrett, the 9/11 skeptic whose questioning of the official story of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon drew fire from politicians when he held a one-semester appointment as an associate lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is about to push back at the politicians.  Barrett plans to announce soon that he will run as a Libertarian candidate against U.S. Rep. Ron Kind, the La Crosse Democrat who ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Nichols]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-08T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[WisOpinion: The Show, featuring Sen. Mark Miller]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285356</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ BRIGHTCOVE[1542764381]  The Senate co-chair of the Joint Finance Committee says one of the budget scenarios is that the Legislature would send to Gov. Jim Doyle a deficit fix that the guv doesn&#39;t fully agree with.  But while Sen. Mark Miller, D-Monona, said that was a possibility, he suggested an agreement among all the parties was preferable.  Miller said the major sticking points remaining are the amount to be realized from tobacco securitization, a delay in school aid payments ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-08T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[New coalition tackles poverty, homelessness]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/top5//index.php?ntid=285373</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ A new coalition of Madison organizations is mounting a renewed battle against poverty and homelessness and wants people in the community to join in.  The Dane County Coalition to Fight Homelessness and End Poverty committed Wednesday to &quot;speak out and take action against the dehumanizing effects of poverty.&quot;  As its first action, the coalition will hold an educational summit for the public from 5 to 8 p.m. June 5 at First United Methodist, 203 Wisconsin Ave. The ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Pat Schneider]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-08T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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