Madison365 Week in Review for June 30

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    Here are our most popular stories of the week, brought to you by the Wisconsin Leadership Summit. Madison365 and the Ho-Chunk nation invite you to the first-ever event of its kind – registration is now open!

    A recent UW Med School grad is heading to Seattle to focus on Native American health.

     

     

    For the I Am Madison project, our reporter Mackenzie Krumme looked into the history of the Gates of Heaven Synagogue.

     

     

    The Lee Evans Football Camp, hosted by the Boys and Girls Club of Dane County, focused on teamwork first, football second.

     

     

    The Fitchburg Common Council rejected a proposal by Mayor Jason Gonzalez to increase the pay for Fitchburg elected officials.

     

     

    Men’s health advocate Aaron Perry has a program running this summer to promote both physical and mental fitness.

     

     

    Miona Short is the first-ever Black woman to earn a degree in astrophysics from UW.

     

     

    US Rep Mark Pocan introduced a bill to abolish ICE.

     

     

     

    For the first time, Sun Prairie got in on Juneteenth celebrations.


    LGBT-friendly bar Plan B was vandalized last weekend in what the owner called “an obvious act of hate.”

     

     

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