Madison

So, as a complete after thought, after the business community has been asked to provide their input about the "broken" process and they have...

Just a new fact of life? Or is there something you can do? WARNING: Reading this may make you itch or creep you out!

A little after 11:00 tonight we were finally notified of the county's plan to deal with the holidays and the next few very cold and snowy days - and keeping homeless people from freezing to death or at least getting hypothermia or losing some toes to frostbite. Not much detail and I have NO idea how people are supposed to find out about the latest last minute plan that has been thrown together.

Music (Mary Gaines and Chris Wagoner), great speakers (Vicki Berenson, Brian Benford, Angela Jenkins, Jesse Pycha-Holst, Brandi Grayson and Rebecca Kemble) and more music (Lou and Peter Berryman)! 

“Coworking Spaces” and “Hackerspaces” are two important ideas that you should know about but very well may not. They’re coming to Madison, so read on to learn more.

Yesterday I blogged about the officers who clearly wrote "use of force" incidents into their police reports provided to the council.  Here's some more that weren't immediately obvious when reading through all 100 pages of reports.

This is a quick look at the final Environmental Impact Statement released today by the Air National Guard.  It contains their analysis of how they will impact our community or 4 others.

Uh, in this town, when the unions are against you . . . you have trouble getting votes on the City Council. Wonder how the committee that meets tonight will respond.

So, I'm totally out of blogging practice, I'm used to staying up later and not getting up early. Gotta get my sleeping schedule back to "normal". So, I'll spare you the gruesome and mostly boring and repetitive discussion on 800 E Washington. The meeting lasted 3.5 hours

Of course, funding for TRC was restored, so I am happy, but there is other good news as well . . . but the county board will be left to struggle with how to pay the operating costs for the Day Resource Center (that doesn't yet exist).

Can you guess what he says? Actually, there might be something new here . . .

Really Mayor Paul? You're killing me.