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Dane Dems against Bench Ordinance

Passed unanimously.

Overture! Questions of Speakers

More live blog . . .its 8:45 . . .

Dean Brasser Retiring

Sigh . . . this is a bummer. Knew about it last week, was hoping it wasn't true . . .

Public Telling: Money Out/Voters In Coalition

Here's an update from Richard Russell . . .

Madison City Ticket Resolution Day – Part 2

If you've got city tickets, here's your "LAST" chance to reduce or resolve them! (Seriously, you have lots more chances. Don't believe the hype.)

Random Round Up

Oh yeah, remember the round up? I should probably start doing that again, eh? Anyways, here's a bunch of random things I have from this week.

City Week Ahead

Election week . . . and August . . . so not much, but its the first meeting of the Room Tax Commission! If you get excited about things like that.

County Budget Instructions

I'm really confused by this memo. Why can't we have a community discussion about priorities? Isn't that exactly what we should be doing? How is that precluded? Also, the across the board cuts don't work, its much more complicated than that, why have departments that have huge income from state and federal sources have the same cuts of 5% and 10% as those that are dependent on local taxes. There's no creativity in these instructions. Why not have people cut 5% and 10% of their GPR instead?

LED Street Light to be Installed. Near You?

The city has been installing them since 2009, here's the latest efforts, plus the pros and cons.

City Council Recap – Panhandling referred

Looks like they may only talk about 2 or 3 issues, but you just never know.

Unions and Community Services, Together!

Wow, this is a first!

Tonight: Re-affirming Reaffirmation of Madison as a “Sanctuary City”?

The council will be voting for a third (or likely more) time tonight to protect immigrants rights in the City of Madison and essentially call itself a "sanctuary city" or as some call it "sanctuary-city lite". The first was in 2002, then again in 2010 and now in 2017.