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Still going strong before the holidays - 27 meetings - 3 are cancelled and of course the Police Policy Review Committee agenda is never available on Monday for their Thursday meeting. Only 3 of the meetings are before 4:00, which is also quite unusual!

THE SKY ISN'T FALLING!!! The first time we have heard that from an Executive - City or County - IN YEARS! 10 or more . . . and yes, that was a COMPLIMENT for Joe Parisi. Thank you!

The bus system.

That is the question Michael Basford, the Chair of the Dane County Democratic Party is asking. I have a little different question.

Ok, I asked for information on the collective community ban . . . and got a whole lot more than I expected.

$5.1M in TIF for Walmart? Someone accused me of posting Onion headlines yesterday. Well, here is, sadly, yet another one you might think is the Onion but is not. Paying to kill small businesses in their community? Paying to kill better paying jobs in their community?

Lots of daytime meetings, 9 of 16 before 5:30.

Who do the members of the Democratic Party think should be the next county executive? The straw poll says . . . Dane...

I've been a housing counselor for the Tenant Resource Center since 1991 when I was a volunteer housing counselor, I was the volunteer coordinator for about a year and a half, served on the board of directors and in 1995 (17 years ago!) I became the Executive Director. Things sure have changed over the years . . .

Go ahead, throw out that stuff - ignoring the realities of how the homeless have no place to put their stuff.

District 13 is the near south side, Bay Creek, Vilas and Brams Addition.

I posted before some examples why teachers need a union. From Idaho we get another case study! A high school science teacher in Idaho is...