Mo’ Meetings!
Sigh . . . today they added 4 meetings. And cancelled one?
Dogs at Festivals
Tonight the Council will be voting on if you should be able to bring your dog to local festivals. I read the newspaper...
Madison Schools Make Up Plan
Revolution or not, the kids still have to be in school a certain amount of time, so here's the plan to add a few minutes to the school day to make up for the days kids walked out and teachers didn't show up.
Mo’ Meetings
If you add up Monday's changes with today's changes we have 2 cancelled meetings and 4 added meetings since I did the City Week Ahead post.
School Board Forums – The Isthmus, Sustain Dane and Ex-Mayor Dave Redefine “Fairness”
It is Board of Education candidate forum season and everyone is getting into the act (full list at the bottom). That includes Sustain Dane...
District 6 Smear Campaign . . . An Official Backfire!
This isn't the first time, its not the last, but it is a little unusual. It's no Bruno (2001) - but still unacceptable and probably just the beginning of the smear tactics in the last few days of the campaign.
ZOINKS! Bus Fares Raised!
Ok, I didn't go to the meeting, took this all off the MABAA listserve - here's a summary of what I learned about the bus fares that will be going up. (Yeah, you thought that issue was dead, didn't you - and just about everyone else!)
City Week Ahead
A very short council agenda (they just met last week), Neighborhood Center's report, missing ALRC and Housing Committee agendas, Taco Bell Settlement, bus route changes and more.
I hate this last minute slimy campaign crap . . .
Seriously! When overly exuberant kids on campus do this crap its one thing you might overlook, when people who have been around politics for...
3 County Board Seats Open – Circulate Papers Friday
If the resolution passes the County Board on Thursday, candidates for three open seats will have less than a month to circulate nomination papers. Circulation starts Friday and papers are due April 9th - only 18 days!
Rick Marolt: Cruelty is bad . . . Unless money is attached to...
Continuing the series about symptoms and causes of “The Problem” …
“Tourist Rooming Houses” – Regulating AirBnB and the like in Madison
Madison is thinking about trying to regulate AirBnB-type rentals. It probably should, but it’d be helpful for them to step back and think about what we’re trying to accomplish. The proposal right now is terrible, but this may be one of the easiest examples ever of where just a little bit of common sense can amend it into something reasonable. There's a public meeting to discuss this all on Thursday, September 26th at 7:00pm.