Why the Choice for County Clerk Matters
I believe that the appointment of the next Dane County Clerk will have a significant impact on the future direction of our State, our...
The People’s Mic!
Tonight, finally, The Mic 92.1 FM, is making a commitment to local programming again. I actually pretty much boycotted the station...
Double Feature Tonight At the Barrymore
Getting tired of the Wisconsin State Journal giving you a watered down version of the news and basically no coverage of the damage that...
Crowded Meeting Rooms & Faux Public Hearings
Twice in less than two weeks, I have gone to committee meetings where the people who were there to listen to or participate in...
Dane County Executive poll
The Spring Primary is less than a week away. With the questions surrounding the poll released by Joe Parisi's campaign, I thought...
Forward Lookout, beyond the blog
This is a little bit of a geeky post about Forward Lookout and Citizen Media, but it also includes a link to an audio recording of most of the July meeting of the Economic Development Commission. So, if either of those sound interesting, read on...
More ineffective public input?
Ok - after being yelled at in the hallway as I was leaving Board of Estimates like I was a two year old by...
Turns out . . . it wasn’t necessary.
Remember when we jumped through all those hoops to bend all the rules to give a company a $700,000 that was portrayed to...
Snow Emergency – Declared?
You figure this out . . . As someone who lives downtown, this is the worst public education I've seen. There were no...
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?...
County Board Recap
It may have been short, but I'm glad Robin Schmidt and others did what they did. Once again, the most excitement was during...
Vicki McKenna Banned in Cottage Grove!!
Recently, the Cottage Grove village board passed a resolution calling for civil public discourse. Their resolution no. 2011-07, A...