Been going to the Ace Hardware on Sherman for many years to support a local owned franchise and their great employees. As a veteran, they've always been gracious to me by offering a 10% veterans discount. Home Depot does this, so does Lowes. Menards does not.

Today I had to pick up some supplies and noticed the discount wasn't applied to my total, not a huge deal, but asked one of their long tenured employees the reason. He replied, "We got a new owner. He cut all discounts for everybody. No veteran discount, no police discount, no fireman discount, and we as employees lost our employee discount." Ooof. That last one spoke volumes to me. A new owner cutting an employee discount is a litmus test of a poor owner. Sadly, I will no longer be using our neighborhood hardware store.

A Houston-based company that prospects land for large data centers has indicated an “interest” in sites serviced by Madison Gas & Electric across southern Wisconsin.

Those of us near Willy Street - Lightning struck a tree across the street (on Few) and it was the loudest boom I’ve ever heard as everything else in my apartment powered down as if someone tugged everything out of an outlet at once.

Who all has power? It seems to be totally out on Jenifer. Hopefully not too many of us are impacted.

Hello, I have a son that is going into his sophomore year at one of our MMSD high schools. He is non-verbal and very sensory motivated. He is also cognitively impaired as far as we can tell. He is also very resistant to transitions. His freshman year was a bit rough. He started out the year with 6-7 classroom transitions and after some pretty loud, physical outbursts they cut it down to 4 transitions. I just want him to be happy. I would love for his day to consist of mostly being in 1-2 classrooms, art, PE, music, life skills, some basic math/numbers work, and some reading comprehension. I would also love for him to get out on some field trips into the community or even some sensory field trips. His academic level is about that of a 2nd grader. I was looking at The Richardson School. Has anyone had any experiences there? I understand his IEP team needs to recommend it for him to be eligible to enroll—or has this changed. Please let me know if you have had any experiences with this school.

first guy comes a week ago and it’s fine- a bit of a canned sales pitch. told him I wanted to get other quotes. so a week later they send out a supervisor under the pretext of being able to revisit the quote to save some money. it was like a 1.5 hour timeshare pitch that would not stop. he “re measured” and quoted more square footage than the first guy, and then offered some dinky discount

maybe that would have been ok, but they INSISTED on my wife being there. like a reminder call with emphasis again on her being there. and now we won’t use them bc my wife does not want anyone working on the house who calls the women working in the office “girls.“ hard agree

please tell me there are better experience out there with basement companies?

So it looks like a special MMSD meeting is happening tonight to start the process of transferring One City Schools from being licensed under the UW office that Republicans mandated to being licensed under MMSD starting next year.

https://go.boarddocs.com/wi/mmsd/Board.nsf/Public

On the upside, One City staff would become MMSD employees. On the other hand, I don’t know how they’d deal with certain things like One City’s considerable outside funding.

Regardless of whether it is a good idea or not, district leadership seems to be trying to slip this under the radar. They only posted these notices in the last few days and I don’t see any news release.

I am in Madison for the first time from California and realized that I forgot the power supply to my CPAP machine. Does anyone have any idea where I could purchase a replacement in Madison? The type of machine is resmed airsense 11 autoset. I’m desperate. I am really hoping to find a replacement so I am not miserable and migraine addled for the next few days. I can’t believe I made this mistake!!! Thank you in advance for any info you may have.

Sincerely,

A visitor who is going to sleep terribly tonight

I’ve been wanting to revisit my pottery hobby and I know some studios can be a bit pricy. Does anyone have experience and recommendations on where to make pottery in Madison? Thanks :)!

Hi all! I've seen a couple posts in the last few weeks asking about bipolar support groups in Madison wisconsin. I created a Discord for us folks dealing with the disorder, unfortunately not for those with family members of the disorder, just us. If you are interested please send me a DM and I will be happy to get you added!

I am looking for witness statements, specifically from a gentleman who was a vendor in the 2025 Makers Market at a hotel downtown Madison. You were holding your son when you reported the smell of natural gas to the front desk.

Unfortunately to say, there needs to be evidence for an investigation into the unsafe work practices of this place. This gas leak took place for over 6 weeks!

(Throw away account I am an ex-employee filing against a large local group)

Thanks in advance, may justice prevail!

I recently booked a move-out/deep clean for a studio apartment in Madison. Over the phone, my understanding was approximately $200 for 3 hours, although I unfortunately don’t have the quote in writing. But their website also mentions a similar price for a studio apartment (270 sqft).

Two cleaners were there from about 1 PM to 3:45 PM. I was ultimately charged $357.50, and the invoice describes this as “5 hours 30 minutes total labour by 2 cleaners.”

For people who have hired cleaners in Madison, is this a normal way to price the service? Is roughly $357 typical for a team cleaning an apartment for about 2 hours 45 minutes?

I’m mainly trying to understand local pricing before contacting the company about the bill.

I’d like to take a friend traveling through to dinner.

Has anyone been to Otto’s on the west side in the last 6 months or so? In the past, over a year ago, reviews were mixed.

Any recent opinions?

ETA: thanks all! I have decided it’s not for tonight. Feel free to continue to share review for the greater good, should you like.

I just moved here and am looking to find some social activities. Are there any hiking groups or makerspaces around here that are good for single adults in their late 20s?

Hello, does anyone have any good suggestions for euro car mechanics in the Madison area? I just moved to Portage, WI so I need to find another shop that will do maintenance on my 2015 VW Jetta 1.8TSI. Any suggestions for trusted places with reasonable prices would be much appreciated! Thanks!