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20+ meetings again . . .

I asked the Mayoral candidates, "If you're elected Mayor, name three things that will be different about Madison this time next year as a result?"

Grrrr. How'd this happen?

We recently had Budget listening Session in Cottage Grove, conducted by our State Representative Gary Hebl and Legislative Fiscal Bureau Head Bob...

Heidi Wegleitner announces she is running to replace County Board Supervisor Barbara Vedder and filed late last week. Vedder announced her retirement earlier...

So, Public Safety Review Committee meets and does nothing, refers the Mayor's "Bench Ordinance" and the media reports it. 5 media outlets showed up. The Equal Opportunities Commission unanimously votes it down . . . crickets. No press. Why?

Live blogged - only 4 members present to start.

This past Sunday, District Attorney Ismael Ozanne gave notice that he will be reporting his decision on the officer-involved killing of Tony “Terrell” Robinson Jr. in 48 hours which lands on Tuesday, May 12th. He had promised to give the family and the public 48 hours notice.

You have all heard something about the United Sportsmen deal lately. Some quick background, it was written into law recently by Scott Suder,...

I was going to type "Yawn, do they do anything any more" about half way into the less than an hour meeting, but I salvaged a few points.

Leila Pine and the James Reeb Unitarian Universalist Church have embarked on a class to explore the issues. They asked me to video tape it and I felt the issue was important enough to do so. So, here's day one (September 18th). Later this week day two, and hopefully day three!

The loss of the rail connection to Milwaukee and associated train station project in Downtown Madison has caused us to step back and reconsider redevelopment plans for the two blocks at Government East. I have just a few long-shot ideas – the public market should be just off of State at North Henry, and the new hotel should be at the state office building at 1 West Wilson. These are quite possibly totally infeasible ideas, but they at least illustrate larger issues that we need to think about.