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I'd really like to see all 400 show up and test the alleged rules of the shelter systems that seem to be shifting and don't seem to reflect reality. If we have a cooling shelter, why not a blizzard shelter?

H/T Heather @ Monologues of Dissent! As our children go back to school and you meet with the teachers, administrators and classmates, tour...

My LTE made the Cap Times website, in a slightly edited version. Here is the full letter(with links): Now that school has resumed,...

Hey, hey, hey! Buy your raffle tickets from Tenant Resource Center when you go to the Central Park Sessions this Thursday to see The Silk Road Session July 30th at Olbrich Park . . . did that say Olbrich Park, why yes it did! 5:00 pm– Caravan Gypsy Swing Ensemble, 6:30 pm— Dengue Fever and 8:30 pm —Hanggai (Inner Mongolia)

Earlier this week the Homeless Issues Committee held a meeting designed to look at the homeless shelter system policies. This will be a three part series that reveals what happened.

Love the bureaucratese - "All shelter, housing case management, information and referral, and food pantry and clothing distribution services are maintained at their 2015 budgeted levels." Funny, cutting 1/3 of the Tenant Resource Center budget makes it feel like something in that sentence is disingenuous. The "services" realistically can't be "maintained" when it comes to tenants in Dane County outside the City of Madison - what other agency has the knowledge, resources and skills that the Tenant Resource Center has?

I won't be doing much campaigning here, but until people get connected to the campaign and get used to the new contacts and social media I may post a few things here. Here's all the contact information and how to get involved.

This is old news from last week, but I thought I'd share since I'm not sure if people saw it or not, I know I didn't but I was distracted. She was confirmed by the county board, here's the background on the other two candidates and the memo and press release about the appointment.

They're hoping that Racine, Green Bay and others will join with Madison to preserve their local control. The ordinance passed (15-5) essentially levels...

Its going to be a bumpy ride.

So, this is it, the bills destroying tenants rights, and tipping the scales in favor of unscrupulous landlords is headed for passage.

Shut down all the city and county services and buildings without a plan for the most vulnerable. Nothing says social and economic justice like letting people spend the all day in freezing temperatures. (15 F forecast)