Round Up Wednesday 2/19/20
Transportation and PFAS Surveys, Metro Bus Route Changes, Flooding Solutions, Poetry Contest and Bike Updates.
City of Madison Finance Committee Recap 3/9/20
Items discussed in this 3/9/20 Finance Committee recap include managerial pay, rainbow murals, senior services and sending 100 police officers to Milwaukee for the Democratic National Convention.
Round Up – Thursday 3/26/20
Alder, housing, election and homeless updates, golf survey, men's shelter finally getting a larger place on Monday and more.
Emergency Orders: Mayor Explains – Part 2
This is part two summarizing the attorney's 51 pages of memos explaining the mayor's emergency orders.
Meet your new Madison City Council Executive Committee
It's not really what I expected. Seems almost counter-intuitive and the conservative end of the council. Will be interesting to see what they do. Or don't do - three weeks from now.
CDA Updates on COVID-19 and Armed Security Guards
Well, half the meeting was spend on this update, most of it on COVID-19, lack of internet services, masks, food, transportation, etc.
What do all of our Madison police officers do?
In the police department 2020 budget they are allocated $86,783,406 and has 116.70 civilian positions and 482 sworn positions. About 200 are patrol officers, what does everyone else do?
City of Madison Week Ahead July 20, 2020
4 missing agendas, 6 cancelled meetings, council meets again this week then not again until August.
Supervisors and Alders raise concerns about UW “Smart” Restart (Updated)
Dane County moved "Forward" and cases spiked, now the UW is going to do a "Smart Restart" with likely similar results. Fancy well branded names can't fool science.
Wednesday 9/16/20 Round Up
News round up and commentary, Dane County be a good landlord, Green Party side of the story and more.
Updates on Occupy Madison Tiny House Village at Wiggies (1901 Aberg Ave)
I blogged this yesterday at Occupy Madison, but what we accomplished in 3.5 weeks (and years of preparation) bears repeating.
Madison Week Ahead 1/19/21
Common Council meetings this week along with Police Oversight Exec Committee, Body Worn Cameras and more . . .