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Alliant Energy Center looking for funding sources, budget items for persons experiencing homelessness, renaming Squaw Bay and a short board meeting.

Some thoughts about what is going on in Wisconsin.

Even if you don't care about the 50+ tenant landlord law changes in AB183 (22 tenants rights at the state level and 25 or more at the local level), you should care about the sham that the Assembly Republicans, Realtors Association and Madison Area Apartment Association are making out of our democracy. Bill passed in 15 days or less?

Last week the press started telling us the details of the 4 jail options. Thursday the County Board met in as a "Committee of the Whole" an hour before the County Board meeting to hear a presentation from Mead and Hunt (this blog post is primarily that meeting). Tonight, two county board committees are deciding which alternatives they want. Slam bam thank you mam and public input and racial equity analysis be damned.

9 people, 9 different current results . . .

Revolution or not, the kids still have to be in school a certain amount of time, so here's the plan to add a few minutes to the school day to make up for the days kids walked out and teachers didn't show up.

Community Justice Center discussion, long Zoning agenda including Tyrol Basin, equity plans, Specialized Transportation budget, Kassel Sister City and more.

Continuing the series about symptoms and causes of “The Problem” …

This is one of the hardest posts I ever had to write and to add insult to injury, I completed it and then lost a bunch of work. So I'm just now getting around to trying to post something about what happened last Tuesday. I still can't believe a government could just pick up and relocate a group of people to a remote location out of sight and out of mind and . . . oh, nevermind. The irony of this happening at Thanksgiving just gives me images of what we did to Native Americans early in our country's history . . . I thought we had learned from that, but I guess not.

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12 youth serve on county committees every year. They are full committee members and can participate in all the discussion, but their vote...

No one seems to know . . . has anyone seen it?