Media

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.

When is a 10 story building not a 10 story building. . . you figure it out.

If I were Mayor . . .

Most meetings (13 of 21) during the day or all piled on Thursday night.

There has been money in the budget for it . . . So what's the deal?

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 . . .

Plan Commission discussion, Economic Development Commission discussion and the Neighborhood Summit, part two. All this week!

Spencer Black rethinking his endorsement. Kristin has a big chunk of the story. Here's the latest statement: Date: Saturday, October 30, 2010, 9:24...

The coalition of city and county funded non-profits had this to say about the operating budget amendment for tonight. While $137K would have solved the whole problem, $50K goes a long ways . . . but still, watch for cuts at some of your favorite agencies and clients who have growing needs and less services.

The Dane County Housing Authority opened its waiting list for Section 8 for the first time since 2007 . . . for 4.5 hours . . . and 9 minutes.

I was blown away to find out Mo Cheeks, the Pro Tem (Vice President), of our Common Council works for Kevin Conroy, the President and CEO of Exact Sciences and Ton Still, an influential cheerleader of the project, and he never bothered to disclose it - or recuse himself from the Judge Doyle Square discussions?

Today we'll see the version 4 of the Overture resolution and negotiations with the Overture Parties in open session. 3:45! Here's the latest update...