Why Cottage Grove Desperately Needs a Library!
So the people in the village who so adamantly oppose the library, will not make a fool of themselves when they try and write...
I Can’t Tell You Why
The Monona Grove School District recently held held their annual meeting. Typically these are sparsely attended and uneventful. This...
Simpson’s Soliloquy on Words of Reason
This weeks Herald Independent, the paper of record for the Monona Grove School District, had an interesting column from their latest Cottage Grove...
Republican Bully’s
H/T to Jay Bullock for catching this.
Last week UW-Madison's own professor of history, geography and environmental studies penned this op-ed in the NY...
The Great Cookie Caper!
I received this email from a local Village resident(thanks for putting me on the mailing list). While I am not surprised that one...
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...
Can We Apply ROI Standards to Highways Please?
If we can quantify the returns to the state for an $80 million investment in a sports arena, why isn't it possible, with "big data" technology, to insist on obtaining a similar metric before approving $1.3 billion of highway bonding in the Governor's proposed budget?
Permit Occassionally Required!
As the Cartoonish Chief Erwin sends his minions all over the state to issue tickets for singing in the Capitol, (purportedly for gathering in...
The actual story – MGSD
Recently, the Keep scott walker in power campaign funded largely by out of state special interests, ran an ad where he used a...
Random, Preferential Economic Development Assistance?
A Story about the Decimation of the Madison Capital Revolving FundSigh . . .During the budget debate, I, along with Alders Judy Olson and...
So How Much will Truman Olson Cost?
A reasonable question to be asked by a member of the Board of Estimates (City's finanace committee), what's the bottom line? The answer...
Teacher Pay
I wrote a LTE regarding teacher pay last year, and in Lieu of The community wide education meeting, I thought I would bring...