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Wisconsin Democracy Campaign Needs Your Help!

This is an amazing organization that does amazing work . . . to keep all of us who don't have time informed of the role of money in our state politics. A watchdog with a bite! My only complaint is they don't do enough local work, and that is only because what they do is so incredible! Anyways, they got some bad news and need your help!

Silly County Games

I go to a parks commission meeting and ask three questions, the chair of the committee, thanks me for coming, tells the staff to respond and when they respond, who do they send the response to . . . hint: anyone but me.

New Council City Week Ahead

New Council members take their seats Tuesday - noonish. Depending upon how long people talk . . . and they usually do for an hour or two.

Wanna Tour a Frank Lloyd Wright House Tonight at 6:00?

It's free! And I bet you never even knew the house was there!!! And, the house will be impacted by the two new developments proposed for Webster St (hotel and apartments)

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Absurd.

Soglin Proposes Barring People from City-County Building if they have no Business There

And hiring a guard to enforce the rules. Could you imagine if they had even suggested this at the capitol? Why is this ok for the city and county government? Meeting Monday to discuss proposal.

Landmarks Staff Report on the Edgewater

The full report is here. More info here. The important part is below.Part 7: Staff RecommendationThis report describes each of the project’s components...

School Board Discusses Edgewater TIF

It was a brief discussion, happening at the same time as the Council "briefing" on TIF, but interesting in that they seem to think...

Bill White’s Magic Development Memo

Wow, this is just kind of funny now. Bill called me the next morning, then sent me the memo and encouraged me to share it. Here's the bombshell mystery document and my responses to it.

TGIF Round Up

A full week of round up, computers are all fixed, I have access to all my notes and pictures again. All is good....

DRAFT Marquette Neighborhood Response to “Broken” Development Process

Here's their initial responses. They are still taking input until tomorrow at noon, so if you live in the neighborhood and have some thing to add, please do! Info on how, below.

What’s Wrong with this Picture?

This notice went out yesterday, can you count the things that are wrong with it?