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This is from the last tenant-landlord committee meeting. In full disclosure, Charlie is not only a volunteer at the Tenant Resource Center, but he is...

Tonight in the Village Of Cottage Grove, appointed village president Mike Mikalsen and Dane County Supervisor David Wiganowsky, are holding a...

Due to technical difficulties yesterday . . . here is a 2 day round up!

This is the updated timeline for the High Speed Rail Train Station and a few tidbits from the council presentation on Tuesday.

Defending BadgerCare and Medicaid . . . and condemning Scott Walker's plans de jour to decimate the state.

City Meetings Cancelled today, and a few added for tomorrow and Friday.

Olin Turville, Warner and others! Olin-Turville Park Events Join the Friends of Olin-Turville Park (FOOT), Madison Police Department, and Madison Parks for some fun, free, family...

I'm sitting in the capital, waiting for them to NOT do something, and to hear what they say about their inaction. Absurd, I know.

Man, I miss Warren Onken. The council ended up, to me, looking like whiny kids who didn't get their way and voted more about who they like or don't like instead of on a good policy and no one was able to craft a reasonable compromise. Who would believe after all the marching around the capital the council wouldn't vote for a .5% increase in pay for some employees who got a 1.5% increase (not police and fire) instead of the 3% (police and fire) increase others got? Seriously?

The retreat the council held, according to the news, was going to be about punishing Brian Solomon, taking on the mayor and all kinds of sexy topics - but, none of that really happened. Instead, it was about a shared agenda, a job description and a short discussion on how alders are appointed to committees. Audio files are here (part one and part two). This is part one, the shared agenda.

Item 2 (Anesis Center funding for mental health case management and community programming for Southeast Asision elders and individuals with mental health needs) was referred to the next meeting, more time was spent getting the mayor a pen (he had his tire gauge instead) than anything else.

Hydrite Chemical is a company that has a location in Cottage Grove that many people are not even aware exists. With the...