4 (or 5?) changes to the City Week Ahead
I thought we were getting better, but I spoke too soon!
$200,000 for $2.5M of Need in Our Community
75 proposals ($2.5M) came in for the Emerging Opportunities Program that the Council approved $200,000 for. Here is what the staff is recommending. Committee meetings tomorrow night. Yeah, no needs here!
Goals? How could our city be different in 5 years? (Updated x 2)
CDBG Commission needs to hear from you.
Added City Meetings
From the equity report "One of the guiding principles of the RESJ Initiative is authentic, ongoing public engagement and participation." . . . if we want results, we could start here. Give the public adequate notice of meetings so they could participate if they wanted.
‘Nother Demolition
Single Family home, but it must be a rental?
Cabin for a Cause!
This is cool, when this guy sells his tiny home, he will donate $5000 to Occupy Madison!
Middle-Aged, Angry and White
Our community leaders are just embarrassing sometimes. No one more, to me, than County Executive Joe Parisi, he's unfit for office. After a blog post this week, Chief Koval is coming in a close second for me, but I cut him a little slack as he's still green.
Pahl Tire (another) Hotel Development
When is a 10 story building not a 10 story building. . . you figure it out. 
101 Ways the City of Madison Would Be Different . . .
If I were Mayor . . .
County Week Ahead
Most meetings (13 of 21) during the day or all piled on Thursday night.
Will Council/County Board Chambers Ever Get Fixed Up?
There has been money in the budget for it . . . So what's the deal?
Well, this is awkward . . .
After the mayor's recent tirade against the "drifter" homeless people (psssst, men all ran out of shelter time at the end of March, that is why you are seeing more "new" people) its a little hard to launch a campaign to find landlords willing to rent to veteran's for the MAYOR'S ZERO:16 campaign. Here's the press release planned for today, Registry Week starts Saturday and there is a Tuesday 10 am press conference next week with the Mayor and County Executive Joe Parisi to help recruit landlords to the cause. This is seriously screwed up. Sigh . . .