Another week over . . . and so much left to do . . . . lots going on last night, look for blogs over the weekend as I catch up . . . meanwhile, here’s what the news covered, and a little more . . . .
THIS ISN’T A SURPRISE, IS IT
People looking for jobs using library computers and need help doing it.
DANE COUNTY TO SPEND $1.7 TO KEEP PEOPLE IN THEIR HOMES
This article leaves me wanting more information, because they only say how about $600K is going to be spent, but its good to see that not only are they focusing on housing, but letting people know about it. Too bad the city doesn’t feel the same way.
BEST WATER IN THE STATE FROM . . . GROAN . . . WATERTOWN
You gotta be kidding me . . .
BUILDERS SUPPORT WALKER
Anyone surprised?
TOTALLY EFFED UP
What Emily said. More details here.
BOGUS RTA REFERENDA
Town of Dunn gets it. Black Earth Village Board as well. Waste. of. taxpayer. money.
NEW BOOTY
Fun with politics.
BIKE RIDE WITH COPS
Yeah, we need more cops . . .
Citizens of all ages can bike with Madison police officers Friday night for about an hour. Meet at Trader Joes on Monroe St at 5:30. For more information Contact David Dexheimer ddesheimer@cityofmadison.com
A similar ride is planned for the Broadway Waunona Neighborhood later this month.
NEW DANE COUNTY WEBSITE
We’ll see if it lives up to its hype. All I want is to easily find information without having to individually request it from staff so I can see what they are discussing at their meetings and to be able to individually link to those items so I can tell others about them. I’m guessing that is not there. It looks like just the front page has changed, and there are some odd things, like the events calendar wants me to know about this?
PARKING TURNED PARKS
1900 Atwood Block
Eight Parking stalls in front of Ideal Bar, Green Owl, Yonda Photo Studio, Alchemy and Thorpes270 SQUARE FEET : THE AVERAGE SIZE OF A PARKING SPACE! How would you use this amount of urban space, if given the use of it for just one day? What about if you were given this amount of space to make a comment about the prevalence/lack-of sufficient urban green space in most cities and towns all over the globe? Here are some of the ways that eight local artists are planning to use eight parking stalls in the Atwood neighborhood to speak on multi-modal transportation and urban green space issues for seven neighboring art installations on Friday, September 17th:
A performance/picnic/video/sweet shop.
A playful musing on Cherokee Marsh with creative mapping included!
A giant, blow-up, visquine sculptural replica of the Olbrich Observatory.
A call to arms for more public park spaces/community gardens to dedicate their efforts to providing greater nutrition to inner-city school children.
A miniature jazz fest to house the skronks and sweaks and blats of hefty handful of regional and local experimental jazz talent…on tree stumps!
A picnic marathon and crochet station to contain your most-prized memorabilia within a hand-crocheted cozy.
A screen-print booth and a boombox to pull all your screen-printing fantasies into t-shirt-living color.
We’ll be living the dream from 10am to 8pm on the 17th, and we’ll be living it hard, so come give us some love if you feel like seein’ art…AND feel like having your art-mind/heart/soul BLOWN to pieces and then restored within the loving embrace of our warm bosooms.
http://badgerherald.com/artsetc/2010/09/15/reacquainting_cities.php
