Walker: I’m Keeping My Promise
Scott Walker's transition director has just released the following statement:
“Governor-Elect Scott Walker is going to fulfill his campaign promise to stop the construction of the Madison-Milwaukee...
Go Vote!
Election Day votes and predictions.
Alders Seek Reimbursement for Inappropriate Use of Madison Metro Buses
By the Republican Senators . . .
Larry Palm, Shiva Bidar-Sielaff and Chris Schmidt will likely be joined by many others in asking...
Solidarity for Verizon strikers from Wisconsin
FYI: US Uncut-WI will meet again to plan more solidarity actions at 6pm on Friday, Aug. 19 at MATC Downtown.
When workers rights were under...
SB107 – Landlords’ Rights Bill
It's likely to pass tomorrow (3rd Reading in the Assembly) and for those of you who lost track of all the evil that is...
Recall Observations
Here is My Letter to The Editor regarding my observations from collecting signatures. Congratulations to everyone who collected signatures for...
SCTOD?
XTBKSOTYSLDHYSIT? Sometimes the alphabet soup drives me nuts, but if you live in S Madison or drive, walk or bike on John Nolen Drive or Broom or Blair or Wilson or the Bike Trail, you'll want to know what this is . . .
An Excuse for a New TV?
If your television is more than 4 years old . . . you might not be able to watch Madison City Channel, Channel 12,...
Another demolition
Another house bites the dust.From the demolition listserve:Please be advised that Deborah Smith will be filing a demolition permit application on May 15, 2009...
Are you kidding?
The members of the Dane County School Board Consortium and WAES (Wisconsin Alliance for Excellent Schools) have gotten together to sponsor a public meeting...
Tuesday Morning Round Up
Relevant local news I can find, plus state and "not in the news" news . . .
Awful Federal Housing News
It will be interesting to see how this impacts Madison, looks like we could be losing Section 8 vouchers and maybe some staff. There were also cuts to CDBG (8%) funding as well. Looks like they cut 100% of the funds for Economic Development Initiative, Brownfields Redevelopment, Energy Innovation Fund and Hope VI - which I believe the city was working on an application for Truax for (not sure which fiscal year. Wonder if the council took this into consideration in passing its budget - I didn't hear it mentioned.