Dane

This is what has been distracting me all week, (I'm on the board of WYOU as well as being a producer) . . . laying off three very good people and trying to figure out what needs to be done to keep the station running. What the station will become in this new era is up to us! If you want to help, let me know! And, hey, if you can donate, please do. It's more important than ever!

The Foundation changes its name and adds board members. Will any of it make a difference, now that they are allegedly on their own and can't come back to the city? Or will they fail and will they be back? They have a lot of money to raise every year in a bad economy.

I sat through the Landmarks Committee meeting yesterday, and it was hard to stay in my seat and keep my mouth shut. I was stunned by the misinformation my own alder gave the committee about capital budget requests and the Edgewater TIF plan the council is voting on tonight.

It seems like more than ever!

On Tuesday, the Council had a long discussion on hiring a consultant to review the AMS model for the Overture. They had previous rejected the same proposal. During the meeting there were doubts about the consultant. Here, we finally hear from the consultant.

The spin is killing me. Saying there are a "few concerns" but a lot of good news is pure bullshit. After 10 years of constant cuts and flat funding (essentially cuts as costs rise and funding stagnates) for non-profits that are the work horses of the human services system, this is nearly laughable . . . or cryable.

Proposed order was released yesterday . . . here are the conclusions:

County board meets to spend millions of dollars, redistricting is moving forward . . . and more.

Sigh, I suck. Sorry, here's my attempts to get back to doing this . . . some older things might get snuck in for the rest of the week as I catch up . . .

$225M or $1,000 for an average property tax payer for the jail, $10M for Pheasant Ridge property the largest decisions that the county has every made . . . and 40,000 residents won't have representation on Thursday . . . the three new county board supervisors elected on Tuesday won't be seated in time to vote on these items.

Occupy Madison, coming soon to a neighborhood near you? Yeah, here we go again! Do you hate this as much as I do?

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