Homeless Advocacy – Washed Away
When I went to lunch yesterday there was a huge chalk message outside of the City County Building. When I came back, it...
Homelessness Up In Madison – Families and Children
Here's some sobering statistics about homeless families and children. I caught the article in the Wisconsin State Journal, and the predictable hateful comments...
Banned on Mifflin
I'm tossing out the rules, and employing the tactics used by other bloggers, am radio blowhards and the WSJ editorial pages, for just this...
Salvation Army outdoes themselves!
Obviously, I was already of the opinion that the Salvation Army has no shame . . . and you'd think they'd stop with their...
Housing & Homelessness: Cuts plus no new City funding.
In a year when we have heard all about adding 30 police officers to our City budget and the police department budget went from...
Board of Estimates Budget meeting! Part II: Operating Budget
To read in chronological order, you'll want to read the post below about the Board of Estimates Capital Budget amendments first. After...
Budget . . . Budget . . . Budget
Tonight starts the City Council marathon meeting. We will be meeting tonight, tomorrow night and likely Thursday night as well. Here's a...
Hardball.
I had heard about this from a church member, but was surprised and somewhat pleased to see it in the paper. Good churches...
Madison Magazine’s Version of David Blaska
Blaming the homeless for the murders, even tho the police won't publicly do it. Fact challenged. He's got it all.It starts off...
Common Council Recap
Last night's council meeting was alot of fixing things that we shouldn't have to do on the floor. Here's what we did.#1...
Two Americas
I'm not a Democrat. I'm a member of the Green Party but . . . it's hard to ignore this. When is...
Friends of Lotherian Update
Photo by Heather Nicole Benson
Firestarters!
There were updates on the Madison Community Cooperative (MCC) membership vote, re memberships of those 36 who used to live in the...