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The Mayor came to the EDC a few weeks back and asked them to talk about TIF policy. The EDC created a subcommittee, which met for the first time on October 2nd. Behind the jump are my notes, and the audio of the meeting. The subcommittee meets again today at 3:30pm in LL130 of the Madison Municipal Building. For extra confusion, this is not the TIF subcommittee that CCOC discussed on October 2nd. No one I've asked can tell me what that committee is going to do that the EDC committee isn't.

This is from the agency that gets all the city money for eviction prevention and security deposit funds. They get a few $100,000 but the requests at the Tenant Resource Center are over $1M of requests. THere is a lottery each month for 8 - 10 people to get eviction prevention assistance, and you can only get assistance if you haven't gotten it recently and have and income and pay future rent

We've paid for three sites through tomorrow, but the county has given the campers a notice that they have to be out by noon today - they gave them the notice last night after 5:00. I have no idea what the campers will decide to do, we don't have transportation arranged for them with this short of notice and well, the county is just being mean.

A casualty of the insane election season happened to be the only Progressive talk radio station around. The Mic 92.1 Progressive talk in...

Denver Post Editor and Beloit College Alum Curtis Hubbard pointed out the ignorance of a right wing pundit! Then the fun began:

Yup - 9 more demolitions. Most aren't controversial and they seem pretty frequent, I post these about once a month.

21 (or 23?) meetings this week that we know of, more will likely get added. Some of them at such popular times at 2pm (parks and open space plan), 11am (Multicultural Affairs), 8am, 12:30, 2:30 (Early Childhood Care and Education), and noon (Surveillance Committee). Who has time to show up at those odd hours?

Today’s “Save The Train” rally in Madison was a call to action for High Speed Rail proponents.  Elizabeth Ward of the John Muir chapter...

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall...

I keep rattling off the numbers, and everyone wants them, so here they are . . .

Wait years to get into affordable housing in the City of Madison.

Thanks to the Herald-Independent! The new Mayor of Monona and President of Cottage Grove: Monona results: Bob Miller has defeated Council President...