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He was asked the question 5 - 8 times that I was present and Chief Koval points in every other direction and refuses to address the issue head on, what will change in the Police Department policies and procedures that lead to the 8:1 arrest ratio?

Giving Forward Lookout a sneak peek at this piece, which is running in Socialist Worker tomorrow. We socialists are cool and like to share...

Dang - the city CAN move quickly if it wants to ram something through the process! Vote Tonight!

If you have been reading my recent posts at Forward Lookout, you are aware that I have been sending out a series of open...

Late post today due to 50th Anniversary of the Grateful Dead shows all weekend and a 10:30 work meeting on my day off . . . but the three meetings added late this morning are now included.

Budget, budget, budget . . . sure wish there was a place to see all the amendments . . . .

The Chamber of Commerce was just one vote away from from preventing the City of Madison from giving input on about the F-35s. Luckily, reason prevailed. And please note, if you think all liberals are the same - that's not true, there are big differences. Some liberals stand up for the Chamber of Commerce, some stand up for the people of Madison, particularly low-income neighborhoods that are impacted by decisions like bringing F-35s to Madison. This is what happens when people aren't paying attention (i.e. not election time, , media doesn't cover things.) And wow, this is either "much ado about nothing" or it IS about something. And I don't think alders would be fighting this hard to not do something unless it somehow mattered.

So, the Plan Commission is hearing about the conditional use for the day resource center tonight. If they approve it, (and its not appealed) this will be the final step to it opening sometime next year! Exciting? Or, more likely anti-climactic as it is after waiting for 7 years and being disappointed in the operator of the facility and their model for services. Local businesses have given a ABSURD list of conditions, local advocates have a long list of concerns and the city council and county board have been largely ignored when telling the staff to include adequate storage, laundry facilities and that they will not be funding additional services beyond the day resource center. So, it will interesting to see how this all turns out, see below for a list of concerns that are not adequately addressed.

I have a problem with the way Mayor Soglin seems to be framing the issue of how to improve Ride the Drive.  When the...

This project elicited one of my favorite quotes ever from a citizen member of a committee. Ever.

It has been said that the people lead and the government follows. There have been many examples of this throughout history. Pressure...

If you have not heard by now, one of Scott Walkers closest allies, Cynthia Archer, was recently promoted to a civil service job where...