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Apparently in today's Wisconsin, random "tweets" are now what is classified as news! We have one of the most extreme budgets in our...

Ok, I've been slacking, so while I'm catching up on everything, I thought I'd fill you in!

Republican Party applauds them!!! What?! The Democrats on our City Council applauded by the Republicans?! I've been asked to explain and I can't. What happened, this should have been a slam dunk. Is it because the Council knows better than Mike McCabe and the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign? Or, they hate the Mayor? Or, they love the Chamber of Commerce and the Madison Area Builders Association?

Why?

Salvation Army moving on up E. Washington Ave from downtown to Darbo neighborhood. Find out all about it!

Equity? When you hear that word do you think about the amount of money you are going to invest in something, or do you think of justice? Social Justice? Economic Justice? What is the city thinking? :)

And a major question!

Construction is a license to pollute. Here's Zach's summary of the 6/17/13 Committee on the Environment meeting. Thanks Zach!

Here's the quick run down.

Here's the items that they want to talk about, the rest of the items will likely be on the "consent agenda" unless someone shows up to speak on an issue or an alder pulls it off for some reason.

Wow. This is pretty complicated, no alders asked questions, and I'm beginning to wonder if they understand it. And it looks like another $3.4M for structured parking . . . .

This is typical for this committee to be late - it probably only matters to city employees, but still . . .