The Mayor, Blogging, Council Use of Web Pages & Woeful Use of Technology

Inspired by Kristin's puff piece on Mayor Dave Cieslewicz blogging . . . not her fault its a puff piece, not much news happening...

Random Monday Morning thoughts

Gender, City's Hiring Practices, Schools, Affordable Housing and more . . .Gender - Paul Soglin has some comments about a news article about the...

Cities and Schools working Together

A former City Council member sent me this article about how Portland is spending spending $1.6 million to keep poorer kids in their schools....

Teacher Pay

I wrote a LTE regarding teacher pay last year, and in Lieu of The community wide education meeting, I thought I would bring...

Library (Shades of Edgewater Craziness)

And the twisting and turning and arm twisting continues . . . It looks like the logic behind council actions on the library...

Sunny Take Two

Recently WPRI hack and Herald - Independent Columnist Sunny Schubert wrote a column congratulating Gannett Newspaper for checking the Verify the Recall database,...

Breaking Down How the Council Decides if they Should Overturn the Landmarks Commission

The decision before the council on Tuesday in NOT whether they should approve the Edgewater project, it is only a question of if they...

Snow and Pedestrians

The thing about asking alot of questions, is that when it works right, you get answers. But then, you have to figure out...

Recall Repercussions

The results were in this summer with the democrats flipping two seats in the Senate recalls. While the republicans lost two seats,...

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...

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...

The Thuy E-mails!

Due to popular demand . . . for the facebookers!ROUND ONE: County Board Supervisor v. AlderDear Alder Pham-Remmele,I am writing to let...