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I think this is the final version! Will you or your group sign on?

According to the consent agenda, only one thing . . . I bet that's not right.

The Edgewater? I'm thinking probably not. I was at a meeting last night with probably 20 paid non-profit staff in the meeting, and over the next few weeks and months, that will play itself out over, and over, and over. And it makes me wonder, how much of the money we are vying for is being spent in these meetings? Despite efforts to streamline the process, it still seems silly. More complicated than the development process that is getting all the attention, take a peek!

Apparently two times recently a chair of a committee refrained from voting and they thought something passed, but it didn't. Had the chair voted in favor, it would have passed.

September 18, 2012 Common Council Meeting Proposed Consent Agenda Exclusions

NOTE: For those of you wondering, Board of Estimates will start at 8:30. Not sure we'll be done in an hour.It's all...

The rest of the meeting was done by 8:10 . . .

Items the mayor is meeting about this week, Performance Excellence, Public Market, Complete count, public health, water utility finances, Freedom Inc, Benjamin Olneck-Brown, police and more  . . .

If ever there was a question about if public employees had enough protections under the law, without being in a union . . . here's an answer for you . . .

A couple weeks ago I sent a quick questionnaire to the two District 20 Alder Candidates, Dave Glomp and Matt Phair:  Can you tell me...

This is in response to the repeated calls from the Wisconsin State Journal for a smaller county board. As usual, the FACTS matter.

Makin' it up at the last minute, staff deciding how the council will do things? How are people supposed to know this? Does the council get a say in their own process and shouldn't this have been worked out months ago when they passed the resolution on the budget process?