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Fitchburg Star | March 11, 2024
"My priorities will focus on expanding out of school time access for Wisconsin youth, restoring women's reproductive rights, legalizing cannabis, and expanding access to healthcare,” Maldonado said in the news release. “My work in Fitchburg and the greater Madison area has centered around collaboration and equity, bringing all voices to the table to inform governmental decision making. I am excited to take these values to the State Capitol."
Madison 365 | March 8, 2024
Fitchburg alder Joe Maldonado announced last week that he’ s running for the Assembly to represent Fitchburg, Stoughton, parts of McFarland and rural areas in between. He joins the show today to talk about what his legislative priorities would be if elected – leading with youth services and development. We also talk velour, braids, and Norwegian food.
Fitchburg Star | March 11, 2024
"My priorities will focus on expanding out of school time access for Wisconsin youth, restoring women's reproductive rights, legalizing cannabis, and expanding access to healthcare,” Maldonado said in the news release. “My work in Fitchburg and the greater Madison area has centered around collaboration and equity, bringing all voices to the table to inform governmental decision making. I am excited to take these values to the State Capitol."
WORT | August 6, 2024
Joe Maldonado is a candidate running to represent this area in the Wisconsin legislature. On today’s show, he speaks with host Carousel Bayrd about his priorities for the district. Maldonado currently serves on the Fitchburg City Council and has a background in youth development. He says he wants to be a voice for historically underrepresented and working class voters. And he believes that “youth have the ideas, and youth have the solutions.”
League Of Women Voters | June 1st, 2024
"I’m running for State Assembly to bring all Wisconsinites, particularly those marginalized and historically underrepresented to the decision making table. We have big issues to address in Wiscconsin from protecting fundamental rights like access to abortion, to reducing the cost of healthcare and expanding access, to tackling the childcare and affordability crisis for working families."
The Cap Times | June 26, 2024
"Maldonado said his priority is consulting with and centering people affected by policies in the decision-making process, including in his work on the Fitchburg City Council. In 20 years of working in out-of-school programs, nonprofits, pre-college programs and higher education, he said his goal was always to provide people with what they need and work “side by side with people to ... determine their future.”
Fitchburg Star | March 11, 2024
"My priorities will focus on expanding out of school time access for Wisconsin youth, restoring women's reproductive rights, legalizing cannabis, and expanding access to healthcare,” Maldonado said in the news release. “My work in Fitchburg and the greater Madison area has centered around collaboration and equity, bringing all voices to the table to inform governmental decision making. I am excited to take these values to the State Capitol."
Madison365 | March 8, 2024
Fitchburg alder Joe Maldonado announced last week that he’ s running for the Assembly to represent Fitchburg, Stoughton, parts of McFarland and rural areas in between. He joins the show today to talk about what his legislative priorities would be if elected – leading with youth services and development. We also talk velour, braids, and Norwegian food.
The Cap Times | March 1, 2024
Maldonado, who is running as a Democrat, was first elected to the Fitchburg Common Council in 2020. He works as the community youth development program manager at UW Extension and is co-owner of Luna's Groceries in southwest Madison.
Madison365 | March 1, 2024
“I live my values,” he said in the live video. “My values are truly centered around bringing the corners and the edges to the center, making sure that representation of all of our residents, of all the people that live in our communit,y are heard and implemented, as we decide all the huge decisions that we have to make, as we share power, that equity is truly centered in the work that we do.”
Madison365 | February 9, 2024
Luna’ s Groceries, a prominent food retailer in the Allied‐Dunn’s Marsh Neighborhood, opened in 2019 to serve what had been a food desert in the Allied Drive neighborhood. Since its opening, Luna’ s has become a healthy food retailer and community resource hub for neighborhood residents.
Madison365 | November 20, 2023
Maldonado first brought the concept of the teen center in the Verona Road West neighborhood to the Fitchburg Common Council during the capital improvement plan and subsequent operating budget process in 2020.
Madison365 | October 20, 2023
Joe is the Director of Community and Youth Development for the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Division of Extension. He also serves as a member of the Fitchburg Common Council, representing one of the most racially diverse aldermanic districts in Dane County. He has extensive experience in youth development, working directly with youth and young adults, grant making, and higher education instruction.
Madison365 | August 25, 2023
Luna’ s Groceries will be celebrating their fourth annual Block Party on Saturday, Aug. 26, 1-9 p.m. and Joe Maldonado, co-owner of Luna’ s Grocery Store, says that he and his wife, Mariam, are excited to celebrate and give back to the community that has supported the grocery store in Madison’s Allied-Dunn’s Marsh neighborhood for the past four years.
Wisconsin State Journal | August 11, 2023
A lease for Luna's Groceries to replace Yue Wah Oriental Foods got a blessing from Madison's Community Development Authority, paving the way for a new change to an already evolving landscape of food access on the South Side.
The board for the Community Development Authority, which owns Luna's future home at the Village on Park mall, approved the lease without discussion on Thursday night. No other city vote is needed for the lease.
Madison 365 | August 11, 2023
Fitchburg alder and longtime community leader Joe Maldonado will moderate a panel titled “Going through the Motions: How to Effectively Move DEI from Performative to Transformative” on Monday, October 10, the first day of the Wisconsin Leadership Summit presented by UW Credit Union.
Fitchburg Star | December 15, 2021
The City of Fitchburg’s teen center project has officially started.
The city launched its teen center engagement study during a virtual open house on Tuesday, Dec. 14, where seven of the eight student interns introduced themselves and project leaders Ald. Joe Maldonado (Dist. 1), EQT By Design staff and city community planner Wade Thompson provided details about how the engagement study would unfold over the next seven months.
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