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...

Three Items of Interest from Plan Commission

Recycling demolition and construction waste, Midvale-Westmorland Neighborhood Plan and some harsh words for Cliff Fisher . . . RECYCLING DEMOLITION AND CONSTRUCTION WASTEGeorge Dreckman...

We All Must Oppose The Expansion of School Vouchers

The Monona Grove Board of Education, building principals and district office administrators, and teachers (Monona Grove Education Association) join together to urge legislators to...

Another Round Up – Moving Daze and More

Between having too much to comment on, and internet issues this morning, I decided to go for another round up . . . moving...

Lobbying: Chamber comes in #2

People on thedailypage.com forum are upset with me for raising the lobbying issue.They seem more upset about my posting on lobbying on the paid...

Wednesday Round Up

Many more issues to comment on today, Hippie Christmas, lobbying complaints, alternative Edgewater proposal thoughts, why Google came to Madison, a little jab at...

Cottage Grove – Where Democracy is a dirty word!

We recently held elections in Cottage Grove where Mike Mikalsen, lost his appointed position of Village Board President. The new Village President,...

Lobbying Reports – What a mess!

So, I went to go look at the results of so many people registering as lobbyists. Bleck.Here's some of the things that I found:Some...

Thursday Round Up

Thursday round up, round two this week. I'm not sure if it is lazy blogging or just still too much to blog about....

And you thought I gave lobbyists a bad name . . .

Sometimes, they do it themselves! Consider the misleading statements made by Attorney Ron Trachtenberg in a recent letter to the City of Madison Mayor...

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...

Embedded Bruer

Quite often in politics, it is much easier to elect the incumbent than to sit and think and compae the candidates and figue out...