Complain About Alternative Transportation on Leap Day!
With this being a leap-year, and the great day fast approaching, I hereby declare February 29th as "Complain about alternative transportation day."
So how about...
Turning our tech dreams into reality: how do we know what to buy?
The city is buying some technology upgrades for Madison Metro. We can come up with cool things it should do all day long, but if we don't think about how to write the RFP, it won't matter. What can we learn from other cities?
Simpson’s Soliloquy on Words of Reason
This weeks Herald Independent, the paper of record for the Monona Grove School District, had an interesting column from their latest Cottage Grove...
When Considering Infrastructure, Build for the Future!
Popular culture would tell the city leaders of Madison that in our current budget we need to focus on providing basic services like expanding...
Saving Privatized Ryan (brothers)
The Village of Cottage Grove is at it again. They seem to be working very hard to lower the quality of life for...
Think Globally but Pay Attention Locally…
The Village of Cottage Grove meeting this week was very telling of four members of the board. This item:
e. Ad Hoc...
Cottage Grove – Leadership Institute
It has been said that the people lead and the government follows. There have been many examples of this throughout history. Pressure...
CityCampMadison
This Saturday, May 21st, is “CityCampMadison”
http://citycamp.barcampmadison.org/
The idea behind a CityCamp is to bring together people who are interested in "Civic Entrepreneurship" - creating solutions...
The Plundering of Village(Cottage Grove)Government!
“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.” – Thomas...
Willy Street Eats
I thought this was too important not to pas on. Madison magazine recently posted a list of Willy Street restaurants that will be...
Sundays Community Meeting
Hope to see everyone
Sunday, March 27, 3-4:30
Monona Grove High School Commons
4400 Monona Drive, Monona
How did we get here?
What do we anticipate with
the...
ballot box solutions…..
Having spent lots and lots of time at the Capitol, many of the great speakers there keep mentioning recall. Not only of Scott...