Monona Grove Budget Reductions!
Monona Grove School District will be holding three meetings regarding the $1.2 million dollars in reductions that we need to make for the next...
Recall Repercussions
The results were in this summer with the democrats flipping two seats in the Senate recalls. While the republicans lost two seats,...
PolitiFact
I was listening to WIBA-AM recently (Here and here)and the President-select of Cottage Grove was on Mitch Henck's show(I am not sure why...
Economic Development – Vision/Goals vs. Workplan
Yesterday I attended the Economic Development Commission to talk about how we move forward on the Economic Development Plan. I had talked to...
It’s NOT Working at The State Journal!
Recently, Capital Newspapers announce that they had cut 26 more jobs.
Which is surprising since you would think that their union busting and...
EDC Comedy of Errors & Violations of Open Meetings Laws?
So, yesterday, the Economic Development Commission (EDC) scheduled a public hearing on paid sick leave during the Common Council meeting - where we were...
Turns out . . . it wasn’t necessary.
Remember when we jumped through all those hoops to bend all the rules to give a company a $700,000 that was portrayed to...
Collective Bargaining
Recently, former Monona City Administrator Dave Berner, a "guest editorial" regarding the evils of collective bargaining. While working on my response...
An agenda for the City
This spring's elections need to be about more than water, trolleys and taxes. Yes, our water needs to be safe to...
Scott Walker’s Infrastructure Investment Fail
The Governor provides the perfect example of why we need to dig deeper and do our homework to justify more highway improvements. Today, the average net return on highway investment has dropped below the return of leaving the money in the private sector. That means digging deeper with our research than simply looking at the businesses or municipalities asking for an improvement
Step Right Up…..
Wisconsin, the original headquarters of Ringling Brothers circus, which has brought us such acts as Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, Zip...
Today’s Must Read
Comes from Dave Zweifel at the Cap Times, with a brilliant way to save money in WI.
This kind of vicious...