Round Up
Another smattering of events, notices, meetings, announcements and things going on around town.
County Week Ahead
Only one meeting this week? 3 meetings were cancelled.
Round Up and Mo’ Meetings!
Random things you might want or need to know! Or perhaps just frivolous and uninteresting items, you decide! Let me know!
Local Government News Round Up
This is a bit late, I got into a gardening project or two last week and abandoned all thoughts of blogging, but it was half done, so I finished it! Here's the round up of last week's news in case you had your own gardening project or other distraction and didn't pay attention!
County Week Ahead
Who's going to pay for the Alliant Energy Center, 2 committees vote on the $150M jail, who sits on the County Zoo Board, purchasing land, Criminal Justice Council meets and more.
County Week Ahead
Finally approving a mental health study vendor and discussion about PFAS and lake levels.
Occupy Madison Forced to . . . Occupy Dane County Parks
Bizarre twist of events made Occupy Madison accidental Occupiers. The Parks Staff are refusing to take our money - but we keep paying.
It's been a bizarre week, yet again.
It's been a bizarre week, yet again. County Week Ahead
Also many meetings! Question of the week - who was responsible for not being able to build additional floors on the current jail?
Rep. Chris Taylor: F-35 military jets pushed by Corporate Interests
She compares efforts to bring F-35s to Madison to ALEC in how "big corporate special interests, through they wealth and power, often dominate policy making, to the great detriment of actual people." It's time to speak up!
County Week Ahead
A joint meeting on Tuesday to make recommendations on the jail and a joint meeting on Thursday to discuss lake levels.
Weekly Local News Round Up
My "round ups" have seen various formats and content over the years. Here's what I hope to become a weekly round up of local government news from the past week. Things I don't have time to blog about, but that should be on your radar screen.
Jail Alternatives Workgroup Recommendations Progress
Ah, the jail. How long have we been talking about it? Remember those work groups that were formed in 2015 that made tons of recommendations? Let's take a peek at the progress being made on those recommendations over the past nearly 4 years!