Dane County Education Meeting
The community wide education meeting was very much a success. With a solid crowd and great speakers, the Sunday afternoon meeting...
Think Globally but Pay Attention Locally…
The Village of Cottage Grove meeting this week was very telling of four members of the board. This item:
e. Ad Hoc...
Sundays Community Meeting
Hope to see everyone
Sunday, March 27, 3-4:30
Monona Grove High School Commons
4400 Monona Drive, Monona
How did we get here?
What do we anticipate with
the...
Blast from the Past . . . Much of the Same
Someone came in to my office and gave me some old newspapers, because of some tenant related articles, but there were some other articles...
Rickert’s Reporting Gap
Today Chris Rickert had a column criticizing the Madison Metropolitan School Board for taking their eye off the ball of the achievement gap.
First,...
Privatization Pirates!
Watching Captain Phillips recently, my wife turned to me and said "I've found someone who has a harder job than I do". I...
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...
Should Lobbyists sit on City Committees?
This is an oldie but a goody. I first asked this question in 1999 when former Mayor Sue Bauman appointed the paid industry...
Wednesday Round Up
There's so many things going on, looks like I'm going to do a mid-week round up as I continue to try to catch up...
February Lobbying Contacts
Sorry, I very much likely missed some folks in February, due to my own tendencies to disorganization that were exacerbated by the silly belief...
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...
Lobbying – November Contacts
Ah, lobbying! One of the reasons I started this blog. Many of you may be familiar with my attempts to close loopholes...