The developers — Ryan Companies and Wiedner Apartment Homes — want to replace the Sons of Norway building and surface parking lots on W. Lake Street with two buildings with 319 apartments and 23,000 square feet of commercial space.

The site is four blocks from Bde Maka Ska, formerly known as Lake Calhoun, and has set off the latest in a series of battles between city leaders who want to promote housing density as an antidote to the city’s lack of affordable housing, and residents who say such changes will harm their neighborhood.

Residents started a postcard-writing campaign opposing the project, and one couple — Tamara Kaiser and Erik Storlie, who live two blocks south of Lake Street — sent a 3,875-word open letter to the City Council citing “graveThe UK government makes the case for open access to science.

There's been a growing push to get more scientific research out from behind paywalls. The federal government, private funding bodies, and a number of research institutions have all adopted policies that either mandate or encourage placing papers where the public can view them. Now, it appears that the UK is considering following suit. In addition to planning to make its researchers' publications available, the country's science minister has asked Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales to advise it on how to make the underlying data accessible.

The announcements came in a speech by David Willetts, the UK's Minister of State for Universities and Science. Willets was pretty blunt about access to government-funded research, saying, "As taxpayers put their money towards intellectual inquiry,