Dane

Our children, Madison children, experiencing homelessness. After you listen, give.

The "Plan B" or private-private model, which is still a public-private model has a few issues yet to resolved. As many as the first model, I suspect. The council has just 21 recommendations for changes. If this takes as long as budget, they'll be there for a good 7 hours or more on just this item alone.

Over the past few months, a committee has been looking at what they can to do save $250,000 or about half the budget of the station due to loss of PEG funding. The first draft of their recommendations are out.

Weekend local news desert - and forwardlookout was slacking this weekend, working on tiny houses and police budget report!

Who do the members of the Democratic Party think should be the next county executive? The straw poll says . . . Dane...

 Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 9:01 AM NOTICE OF MEETING CANCELLATION Meeting: MADISON ELECTION ADVISORY COMMITTEE on 6/17/2013 4:30 PM at ROOM 108 CCB has been...

This is oh so very late . . . hopefully you are out having fun and starting your weekend.  So, for the record, here's what I got and you can read later!

This morning Dean Mosiman from the State Journal had an excellent article about the "barely humane" men's homeless shelter.  But did it expose illegal meetings by the "informal" city-county homeless shelter committee?  And what exactly is this committee doing?  Here's what I found out.

Joe Tarr raised an interesting issue that I was just chatting with a friend about - Statement of Interest forms.

Shoot, now I got that song stuck in my head! Anyways, here's the county board candidates as of the filing deadline!

Must have been some deal made behind the scenes. Here's what I know about the almost mayoral veto.

Most of the meetings on the topic tend to be in closed session, and its a little hard to tell what is going on . . . but here's what I can tell you . . . which is a quick way to get caught up on all the issues.