Which MM is more popular? Mark Miller or Mike Mikalsen?
Tonight in the Village Of Cottage Grove, appointed village president Mike Mikalsen and Dane County Supervisor David Wiganowsky, are holding a...
More Bad News for the Poor
You're not surprised, right? Need legal services, you might get through the screening if your problem is bad enough.
Misplaced Priorities
The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then get elected and prove it.
P.J. O'ROURKE, Holidays in Hell
The Village Board in...
Demolition . . . Or Two . ..
Here's another one . . . Please be advised that Roger Bowden will be filing a demolition permit application on November 15, 2009 for...
Charter is fined, but not enough!
I can't say I'm sad to hear this. I see Charter got the high end of the range of fines, but its not...
Budgeting . . . and Republicans.
Today I had the opportunity to hear various state elected Democrats talk a bit about their political struggles in the legislature. I was...
The REAL Alternate to Freakfest!!!
Where the cool people will be!!!Hey SCUBA Squad!Night of the Dead is almost here, so if you didn't get your tickets yet, go to...
What’s in a roll call vote?
One of the Mayor's big complaints about me . . . er, "that alder that had 44 of the 120 amendments", ...
East Washington BUILD, moving forward?
Last week, after we met with the Mayor about the E. Washington BUILD I was feeling pretty positive about the direction we were moving....
How to Decide to Demolish a Landmark
George Austin kept saying that we had to think about what was going to go in place of the landmarked buildings or that is should "add value" if we demolished a landmark when talking about the project on the 100 State St block. That was still bugging me, I don't see that anywhere in the standards for demolishing a landmark. He also said that Landmarks Commission made a recommendation to the Plan Commission about a demolition, which also, clearly was not true. They issue a Certificate of Appropriateness and its appealed to the council (think Edgewater). For his comments see here. For the real standards and procedure, see below.
RTA Discussion, Amendments, Votes and Passage!
9:00 meeting for work: 1Blog: 0(I only had 5 minutes left to finish, but I also was running the meeting . . . sorry...
When "Free Land" Costs "the City" $425,000 plus ???
The Plan Commission, without looking at the fiscal impacts, and with some pieces of the documents missing, approved the plan for the Truman Olson...