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Update on Landbanking

The Economic Development Committee met again last night to look at the landbanking program. There is a last minute hand out,...

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The (Public Schools) Profit Motive

We have brought you the story before that the current round of "education reform" is a myth, that its just a ruse to try...

Obligatory Post

Yesterday sucked.

Rainbow Bookstore is Doing a Play!

Yup - it's a fundraiser for your favorite bookstore! And a true community treasure that needs your support!

Sundays Community Meeting

Hope to see everyone Sunday, March 27, 3-4:30 Monona Grove High School Commons 4400 Monona Drive, Monona How did we get here? What do we anticipate with the...

Make The Magic

One of my favorite charities - Camp Kesem - UW Madison, is having their annual fundraiser - Make the Magic. Make the...

Wisconsin Primary Election Day – August 9th

In what seems like is happening almost monthly in WI, another election day is upon us. Tuesday August 9th is the partisan primary...

Christopher Richter: Why I’m Upset

Some thoughts about what is going on in Wisconsin.

Which Side Are You On?

UPDATE: Josh Eidelson writes to respond to my riff on his piece. These are all good thoughts. Josh did a good job portraying the...

JFC Co-Chairs Plan to Drop a Highway Bomb on Future Generations

...we can’t expect one generation to pick up the load for all these projects at the same time... Unfortunately, these projects are all coming to fruition at the same time... it’s up to us to figure out what are we going to do to continue...
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I’m Speechless

This is one of the hardest posts I ever had to write and to add insult to injury, I completed it and then lost a bunch of work. So I'm just now getting around to trying to post something about what happened last Tuesday. I still can't believe a government could just pick up and relocate a group of people to a remote location out of sight and out of mind and . . . oh, nevermind. The irony of this happening at Thanksgiving just gives me images of what we did to Native Americans early in our country's history . . . I thought we had learned from that, but I guess not.