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With 20 Madison Alders? Is the picture in your head right now this . . .

This is what's available 8am Monday morning . . . clearly some items are missing.

On the surface there seems to be a tension between protecting people from a relatively slight risk of excessive bodily injury costs versus saving an inconclusive amount of money on their insurance. Why not provide both? Keep the 2009 minimums and help Wisconsin motorists save money by promoting Pay As You Drive (PAYD) car insurance to allow Wisconsin's drivers to control their costs. As an added benefit, research has shown that PAYD can reduce crash rates and congestion.

So much for taking poverty seriously. As needs and expenses go up, agencies are looking at decreases. Again, for the geeks and those from agencies affected . . . and all their clients. The real issue here is that most non-profits will see a 5% decrease in funding

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.

Oh, I'm so busted. Good call on that one Erik. You should go read his post, and then mine will make more sense. And, because its a really good argument for how you can get involved with citizen journalism.

I wonder how many meetings will be held this week, that they haven't told us about yet. Here's the one that are noticed at the moment.

Form the East Washington Business Coalition . . . do you think these are "reasonable"?

Unless you show up and speak to something, of course, no guarantee they will talk about it, but it won't be passed in one big amendment and it will give them pause to think for a moment.

It's the first thing every elected official should learn. Tonight's council agenda, just like last week's county board agenda were the subject of some special rules. Here's the ones for tonight

Reminder, they often add meetings to this throughout the week, so you should really check back with the Weekly Meeting Schedule, which is the closest to the official schedule that you can find on the internet. The official notices are hung outside the clerk's office.

Whatever you show up to talk about and . ..