Madison

District 18, on the northside has a primary election on February 15th. Candidates Steve Coleman, Peng Her and Anita Weier share their thoughts. Watch throughout the week for the rest of the primary races in 1, 8, 10 and 13.

Due to technical difficulties yesterday . . . here is a 2 day round up!

EDC Public Hearing of September 16th. The EDC had a public hearing on the development process review that they’re undertaking. It's a little late, but I've still got 30 minutes before the next EDC meeting on the subject. Here's the "too long; didn't read" (tl;dr) summary: The process isn't broken, everyone agrees that the neighborhoods should participate, and that the neighborhoods need more training/and or support to be effective partners, and that above all, we need to do better on keeping everyone on message that "Madison is a good place to do development". A second point: no one could point to specific instances or examples of how the process has gotten worse. Instead, it's all "this is what we hear" and other anecdotal "evidence." Hopefully everyone keeps that in mind before any radical changes are implemented. Read on for the full details.

The leaking began over the weekend . . . but wait before you jump to conclusions about this budget!

Here we go again . . . I'm spending more time on the County side of things (Human Service Budget Hearings tonight and tomorrow night - Alliant Energy Center 6:00), at the Tenants Rights' Rally tomorrow night (5:00 State St steps) and the Poverty Coalition meeting on Thursday (6:00 Edgewood College).

September 18, 2012 Common Council Meeting Proposed Consent Agenda Exclusions

Energy efficiency assistance for homeowners.

Info that would be good for tomorrow's hearing - how our maps are impacted by the Republican plan.

Occupy has occupied every spare minute of my time, but we also need volunteers to help Sarah make the Warming Center a success and to build for a permanent day center. So, help out if you can!

Absurd.

Yeah, the Edgewater . . . the PR continues.From: Kelly Starr-King Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 5:22 PMTo: Kelly @ Dane Buy LocalSubject:...

Here's a good example from Milwaukee (and other places). Of course, here in Madison, we've heard about some benefits, but weren't not allowed to see what the agreement is.