Common Council Recap

The meeting went past 10:00! That has become so rare!The meeting started off with much confusion. Alders Sanborn and Bruer were not...

Common Council Recap

It might take me as long to think about this post as the meeting lasted - an whopping 45 minutes.Ok - it wasn't even...

Yawn.

If you're wondering why there is no post here, its cuz I have the day off and I just woke up. I'm working...

Beyond the Trolley Follies

If you read the paper or watched the news after Tuesday night's Council Meeting, you probably don't know that in addition to those good...

The War Against Neighborhoods

Last night at the Common Council meeting (live-blogged by Kristian at the Isthmus) a group of conservatives (I guess that's what you call them?)...

Short Common Council Recap

Snooze.While we dealt with 190 items on the agenda last night, very few of them got any attention at all and we were done...

Common Council Recap: 10/16/2007

It was short. We approved closing the two TIDS to give money to the city and school district. We gave the cops $100,000...

Council Recap

Here's the recap of the meeting that I didn't really tell you about yesterday! (Sorry.) And the meeting that nearly wasn't. ...

Council Meeting: Limiting Poll Workers and Passing Neighborhood Conservation Districts

Here's the recap (the second writing . . . grrrr, I lost the first verison) of what happened at the Council meeting last night...

18 Minute Common Council Recap

One reporter described it as feeling like we were in the eye of the storm.GETTING STARTEDThey started on time!!!! Taking at least Verveer...

Council Recap – TIF for Danisco and the "But For" Policy

While most of the reporters, especially television reporters were covering the 5 minutes the Council spent on the pink flamingos or the time they...

What is the Role of the Economic Development Commission?

I was surprised at the last Common Council meeting when we tried to refer an item to get advice from the Economic Development Commission...