Madison

They're turning well 8 back on . . .

Over the past few months, a committee has been looking at what they can to do save $250,000 or about half the budget of the station due to loss of PEG funding. The first draft of their recommendations are out.

I'm less optimistic after last week's performance of the so-called "weekly schedule", so instead of 80% I"m going with 70% and I'm hoping it doesn't dip into the 60's like it did last week.

This is from the dog bit outside La Fete de Marquette, please help if you can.

Planning the next steps . . . and where to begin . . .

Guest column by John McNamara on pre-payment of cab fares.

Yup, the Parks Commission agreed to the Memorandum of Understanding that does not require a lease or insurance that would have been prohibitive.

Final decision postponed until September for a little re-write.

An attempted live blog of the meeting to determine process adn procedure to expand the State St. TID #32 (think University Square) to include the Edgewater, since it currently isn't in a TIF district.

Mostly cancellations . . . perhaps because people get late notice and there is no quorum? Or something else, I'm not sure.

Always too much to do, too many meetings unreported and too many obligations getting in the way . . . here's what I have this morning. Anyways, here's a whole bunch of not-newspaper-links for this morning and a some newspaper links.

I'm sure its no coincidence that the Mayor's memo and the police department memo came out in the same day, but the police seem to completely ignore the mayor's request for a 6% cut, as usual. Cuz, you know, they're special, they get whatever they want. Which is a compromise of only 20 more officers (instead of 34) and millions more for their training facility cuz they botched the original budget.