Common Council Recap – Everything but the Pham-Remmele Circus
They started only 2 minutes late!! We'll call that progress!!! The meeting started with everyone in attendance with the exception of Bruer....
Random, Preferential Economic Development Assistance?
A Story about the Decimation of the Madison Capital Revolving FundSigh . . .During the budget debate, I, along with Alders Judy Olson and...
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...
The Badger Bus Depot Common Council Recap
GETTING IT STARTED Um . . . Bruer? Bruer? He wanders in, talking to everyone . . . and attempts to call...
Common Council Recap (Final)
I took the day off, slept in (a little), so this will be a little slow getting posted this morning, but this and the...
Common Council Recap – Uh . . .
All I can say is I have no idea how the meeting took two hours. No. freaking. clue.- We heard a few people...
TiVo’d Council Meeting, Part II
The important/juicy part . . . Check here for part 1.PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTIONAlder Solomon clarified his motion was to figure out the implications...
Sleepless Recap
The agenda kept us up until 4:00 in the morning, that's a 9.5 hour meeting. Here's the highlights, or lowlights, depending upon...
6 designs + 6 hours= more design hours for SBA
The Common Council voted 12-7 to not grant an appeal to Steve Brown Apartments (SBA) on their plea of economic hardship in regards to...
Common Council Recap: October 2
There were only two or three items of discussion, but we were still there until 9:00 or so. There were a few other...
The TiVo’d Common Council Recap (Property Tax Exemption Again)
I was unable to be at the evening meeting due to the fact that I had to go to a funeral north of Milwaukee...
City Council 11/6/2006: Full of Surprises!
Three of them!First, it was only 20 minutes long. Yup. 20 minutes. That's the shortest meeting I've attended in my nearly...