Housing & Homelessness: Cuts plus no new City funding.
In a year when we have heard all about adding 30 police officers to our City budget and the police department budget went from...
Recall Repercussions
The results were in this summer with the democrats flipping two seats in the Senate recalls. While the republicans lost two seats,...
Some feedback to Metro on future farecards
The RFP for updated farecard systems in Madison is moving forward. Here are some suggestions on how to write the RFP so that we can unleash the full talent of our community and the world in making it better.
Breaking the Law!
You know how the city parks department and the police department think it's ok to just throw away items that belong to the homeless?...
Board of Estimates (Preview of Issues to Come) Recap
Mark Clear violates ethics ordinance?, TIF falling out of favor with Madison School District and County (could future TIF districts and expansions . ....
City Staff: Your Input is needed!
This does seem to be a Mayor that doesn't want to follow the rules. Or at least feels like he can either ignore...
Mixed Messages
Yesterday, I grabbed dinner and a beer at the Great Dane after a meeting. I happened to be facing the window and saw...
The Importance of an Elevator
What if you had a public building that was three stories tall and the elevator didn't work? You'd wait til April to get...
That Was Then, This is Now!
Madison Radio Hate sqwuacker Vicki Mckenna, appears to be trying to bring back the Monkees song from 1986. Which is actually a nice...
The Week Ahead: August 13 – 17
iWell, this is the week of hell for me. August 15th. Working at the Tenant Resource Center, this is the beginning of...
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...
Updates on Bus Fare Increases – TPC Decision Appealed.
It's all in a day's (not) work. Here's what happened and the sequence of events, as near as I can tell!11:45 - Mayor...