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Election Day Advice! (Updated)

Go vote! Tell your friends to vote! Tell your family to vote! Tell your co-workers to vote! Take someone to vote with you when you go vote! Vote! Vote! Vote! (and here's who I would vote for . . .)

Extra Common Council Surprise Agenda Items

Sent out by the clerk at 6:35 last night . . .

Turning our tech dreams into reality: how do we know what to buy?

The city is buying some technology upgrades for Madison Metro. We can come up with cool things it should do all day long, but if we don't think about how to write the RFP, it won't matter. What can we learn from other cities?

(Late) Report on Day Center Approval

This is from the plan commission meeting on Monday. Where staff beats back the ridiculous requests for conditions on the day center posed by 7 - 9 un-named business community members, most who were too cowardly to show up to the plan commission meeting and plan commission beats back the goofy request for making the developer pay for a bus stop, which never happens - including on the projects they approved earlier in the evening 2 blocks away. hey didn't really address pedestrian safety . . .

Iced In (by Mary Jo Walters)

Make some calls, get updated, ask, when will Marijuana be legal in Wisconsin?

Merit Pay In Education -A Case Study

The Wausau Daily Herald recently penned an Op-Ed stating that under the last legislative session school reform "took a step forward" The reforms establish...

City Week Ahead

Today there are meetings at 9, 10, and 2, Wed at 7:45, 10 and 11, Thursday 2 meetings at 8 am. One Friday at 3:30. Are these meetings they expect the public to go to? Or actively DON'T WANT THE PUBLIC TO ATTEND? I find this frustrating. 23 meetings this week, 14 start before 5pm.

Some thoughts on the changes to the Edgewater TIF

Some quick thoughts on Soglin’s expected move to cut the TIF assistance for the Edgewater redevelopment.

(Early) City Week Ahead

4 meetings start at 5:30 or after. Sigh . . . Tuesday, January 20, 2015 12:15 PM BUILDING CODE, FIRE CODE, CONVEYANCE CODE AND LICENSING...

Death to Living Wages?!

Ah, yeah, more ALEC bullshit attacks on the eve of the 3rd, yes third, anniversary of the uprising. 10AM this morning. Compliments of Sen. Glenn Grothman and Rep. Kapenga.

Mayor on Housing Plan

This supplements the handout I reported on yesterday. This is the briefing for the council (only David Ahrens and Anita Weier showed up, Lisa Subeck appeared at the end of the press conference) and the press conference that was held yesterday. (with BK comments)

Susan Pastor: Police Tackle and Jail High Schooler with Autism

School Board report from January 25: