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When is comes to policing issues, the Madison community has been through a significant amount of divisiveness and turmoil again this month. It started with the threatening and inflammatory blog by our Chief of Police, Mike Koval. This was quickly followed by his contentious and disrespectful antics at the council meeting of June 7th. And when things started to cool down politically, the community was rocked by the shocking video of Madison police officers beating, kicking and tasing a young black woman, Genele Laird.

This is what might be the city week ahead. 9 of 36 meetings start after 5:00. Starting at 4:00 or 4:30 seem the most popular, hope you're not interested and work until 5:00.

Committees will have new faces this week with the new alders and switches in assignments . . .

Can you believe this?

Quite often in politics, it is much easier to elect the incumbent than to sit and think and compae the candidates and figue out...

21 meetings so far . . . only 8 of them before 5pm. Several without agendas yet.

In several states and throughout Wisconsin.

Eight co-sponsors of the resolution were joined with all of the other Common Council Members to vote yes on Resolution 32795. Testimony from citizens...

It was a "hot mess" as the kids say! So many issues with AB561/SB466 were raised during testimony yesterday, that they have to redraft the bill or make multiple amendments to clarify and fix unintended consequences.

11 meetings, none today, some at 9am, 12pm, 12:15pm and 12:15pm.

First and LAST PITCH for SHARED OPEN SPACES in highly commercial areas of downtown Madison, Wisconsin.

A followup question from Rep. Nygren to the DOT about raising fees on bicyclists has been answered in a recent Legislative Fiscal Bureau Paper...