Blackhawk Park, now Trillium, is a 26-acre rental and condominium community of two-bedroom homes along Craig Avenue south of University Avenue near Spring Harbor Drive.
It is named for Black Hawk, the Sauk war chief who in 1832 retreated with his forces through this area on their way to the Mississippi River. The Blackhawk Country Club is nearby. The builder was Floyd J. Voight, a Madison businessman. The 24 x 32 foot homes are on concrete slabs because the high water table ruled out basements. When Blackhawk Park opened in 1951, all featured gas heat and hot water, a water softener, a kitchen with Youngstown steel cabinets and asphalt tile floors. They rented for $95.00 a month.
The homes are laid out along Craig Avenue which is named for Voight’s 5-year-old son, Craig. There are sidewalks but no driveways. Eight six-stall garages are discretely placed away from the homes. The houses were rented to young families in general as well as to employees at the new Veterans’ Administration Hospital in Shorewood.
Excerpt: The recent arrivals have helped breathe new life into one of Madison's must unusual developments, built in 1951 and modeled on the Levittown subdivision on Long Island, which was built just after World War II for returning military veterans and featured houses constructed assembly-line style.
The 137 houses on Craig Avenue and its various offshoots are exactly the same: one story, no basement or garage, two bedrooms, one bath, occupying 768 square feet. Strict condominium association requirements have kept them the same, with rules against adding on or building fences.
Eleanor Spurley, now 94, moved to the last house on the block in 1951. She was a former Army sergeant. Her husband was a former Army corporal. They raised four young kids there who slept on two bunk beds and shared one dresser.
"It was just an awesome place to live," said Jo Ann Spurley, now 64. "Every night everybody came out and played."
Lawrence was a very steady performer during the 1st half of the 20th century, spending all but one year (1903) from 1900 until 1954 and remaining in the top 100 until 1974. He peaked at #30 twice, in 1942 and 1945. He has increasingly fallen out of favor since then.
At right is a partial screenshot of Tax Cuts and Jobs Bill amendments, tweeted by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri), with the comment: This is so bad. We have just gotten list of amendments to be included in bill NOT from our R colleagues, but from lobbyists downtown. None of us have seen this list, but lobbyists have it. Need I say more? Disgusting. And we probably will not even be given time to read them.
The University of Alabama-Huntsville study, conducted by climate scientistsskepticsJohn Christy and Richard McNider, shows that not only is the temperature rising far more slowly than predicted, but that the Earth's atmosphere appears to be less sensitive to changing CO2 levels than previously assumed.
In a new report, Moody's Investor Services Inc. explains how it assesses the credit risks to a city or state that's being impacted by climate change — whether that impact be a short-term "climate shock" like a wildfire, hurricane or drought, or a longer-term "incremental climate trend" like rising sea levels or increased temperatures.
Also taken into consideration: "[communities] preparedness for such shocks and their activities in respect of adapting to climate trends," the report says.
"If you have a place that simply throws up its hands in the face of changes to climate trends, then we have to sort of evaluate it on an ongoing basis to see how that abdication of response actually translates to changes in its credit profile," says Michael Wertz, a Moody's vice president.
Democrat pulls off special election victory for Senate seat in west Tulsa County. (Tulsa World, 11/14/2017)
Complete but unofficial results showed Ikley-Freeman with 2,234 votes to 2,203 for O’Hara. As is usual with special elections, low voter turnout was an important fact — only 4,437 people voted in this election, compared to almost 32,000 in last year’s regular general election.
9/28/2017 update starts here.
Democrats flip a seat in Florida in a district where they couldn't field a candidate in 2012 and 2014.
My heavens! A Republican uttering racist comments. Just another day at the office. Annette Taddeo, a Democrat, won the Florida Senate District 40 seat in a special election on Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017. She bested State Rep. Jose Felix Diaz in the race to claim the southwest Miami-Dade seat formerly held by Republican Frank Artiles, who was forced to resign in the spring following his racist comments to two black lawmakers.
9/27/2017 update, "Democrats flip seat in New Hampshire House of Representatives for 3rd time in 4 months", starts here.
The Rockingham 4 District has 5 seats. Yesterday's special election was held to replace Republican William Polewarczyk, who died of cancer in May. (There are 400 seats in the NH House.)
It was the third time since May that Democrats flipped a House seat in a special election. Edith DesMarais won in heavily Republican Wolfeboro on May 23. Charlie St. Clair won in Laconia-Belmont on Sept. 12.
9/18/2017 update, "Democrats flip seat in Oklahoma House of Representatives for 3rd time in 2 months", starts here.
Voters on Tuesday decided on Democrats to represent them at the Oklahoma Capitol after their elected officials resigned in disgrace, leaving the legislative seats vacant and forcing the mid-year contests.
Original 9/13/2017 post, "Democrats flip seat in New Hampshire House of Representatives", starts here.
Democrats picked up a previously Republican legislative seat Tuesday as Democrat Charlie St. Clair defeated Steven Whalley in a New Hampshire House special election in Belknap County by an unofficial count of 1,267-1009.
The election took place in Belknap County District 9, which is made up of all six Laconia wards and the town of Belmont. The election was held for the seat left vacant by Republican Robert Fisher, who resigned in May amid controversy about misogynistic posts on the Red Pill website.
The labor cuts at UW Health — which has 17,000 employees, or the equivalent of 16,000 full-time positions — likely will involve layoffs, but it’s not clear how many, Kaplan said.
427.2 fulltime-equilavent (FTE) positions, in other words.
CEO Dr. Alan Kaplan sez it'll be at least 225 full-time positions.
According to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign's Follow the Money database, Dr. Kaplan has 5 political campaign contributions totaling $1,350 -- 3 to Republicans ($950) and 2 to Democrats ($400).
In a bid to understand what drove people who voted for Barack Obama for president to then vote for Donald Trump in 2016, Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian took himself on a listening tour to three economically depressed counties in three states – Robeson County in North Carolina, Cambria County in Pennsylvania and Macomb County in Michigan.
After years of things leaving Robeson County – manufacturing plants, jobs, payrolls, people – something finally came in, and what was it but more misery?
For all this, Ice and pop-culture mavens have only one thing to thank: his 1990 supernova smash single “Ice Ice Baby.” The song is so popular, in fact, that despite having little else to show for his musical career – one that peaked nearly 30 years ago – Vanilla Ice is among the biggest names scheduled for the I Love the '90s Tour, which includes a stop at the Rock the Ranch festival at the brand-new Valley Ranch Town Center Amphitheatre in New Caney on Saturday.
George has never really gone out of fashion. He spent most of the 1st decade of the 20th century at #4, his peak since 1900, and remained in the top 10 through 1937. It wasn't until 1993 when he fell out of the top 100 and since 2013 has been working his way back there.
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