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Hidden Gem: The state’s best restaurant deal, which you’ve probably never heard of, is inside a community college.
- One a Month: 12 unforgettable one-day getaways to put on your 2024 Wisconsin bucket list.
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Who’s Left? Who and what will (probably) be on the ballot by the time Wisconsin voters get a chance to weigh in this spring.
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Christina Lorey,
Community Editor, UpNorthNews
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One of Wisconsin’s best restaurants is inside a community college
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DID YOU KNOW? One of the state’s hardest-to-score reservations is hidden inside a community college.
At Diane’s Delicious Diner on Madison Area Technical College (MATC)’s Truax Campus, all meals are prepared by the school’s culinary students, and, because the restaurant is only open for lunch on Tuesdays and Thursdays, reservations go fast. The diner often books several months in advance, but it will accommodate walk-ins if there’s space.
Lunch at Diane’s is a three-course prix-fixe meal that’s worth every penny of its $25 price tag, at least according to this review from the State Journal.
“In 1999, I reviewed MATC’s Gourmet Dining Room, as it was known then, and found it to be hit or miss,” reviewer Samara Kalk Derby wrote. “Now it is a pure hit.”
Diane’s (which is named after Diane Ballweg, a longtime philanthropist who donated money to help the culinary program grow) changes its menu every three weeks. Milwaukee’s Technical College has a similar program with even more options. Click here to learn more.
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Credit: Diane’s Delicious Diner
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12 unforgettable day trips to put on your 2024 bucket list
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Credit: Daggett Memorial, Only in Wisconsin
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News and commentary from
Founding Editor Pat Kreitlow
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Who & what will (probably) be on your ballot this spring
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Wisconsin’s first two election days are coming up in February and April—and while a presidential primary will attract a lot of attention, most of the campaign work will be happening around dozens of school district referendums because of the ongoing shortfall of funding from the state Legislature.
Data from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction shows at least 59 ballot issues are scheduled, asking voters to approve about $840 million in total. Some of these measures are seeking funding for new construction, but many districts are joining a growing list of schools forced to ask voters to raise their own property taxes simply to keep up with the daily costs of keeping schools open and operating.
The referendums are coming despite a modest increase in overall state funding from last year’s budget because the boost arrived only after years of state-imposed limits by the Republican-led legislature.
While most of the referendums will take place on April 2, there will be ballot measures on February 20 in the Burlington, Cumberland, Menomonie, River Falls, Shiocton, Waterford, and Wilmot school districts.
Voting next month will be rather sparse, save for the handful of local government races with enough candidates to require a primary for school boards, judgeships, county boards, and municipal boards for towns, cities, and villages.
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Thanks for reading. This newsletter was written by Christina Lorey. UpNorthNews is happily free to read for everyone. Your financial support means a lot to us. Donate here.
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