Immigration Task Force Begins Working on Its Recommendations
So, this meeting was really an informal discussion with lots of back and forth, so hard to blog, but here's the highlights.They started off...
Juneteenth Celebration
Passing this information along . . .Juneteenth Day CelebrationThe Nineteenth Annual Juneteenth Day Celebration is a program of Kujichagulia – Madison Center for Self...
Dane County Education Meeting
The community wide education meeting was very much a success. With a solid crowd and great speakers, the Sunday afternoon meeting...
Open Records request findings…
I recently did an open records request from our Village Board and found a couple very interesting documents that I felt needed to be...
Privatization Pirates!
Watching Captain Phillips recently, my wife turned to me and said "I've found someone who has a harder job than I do". I...
Low Income Bus Pass – Limited to One per Family
Here it is . . . think it will work? Check out the bolded part - where'd those rules come from? Passes...
How is this supposed to work?
So, the Mayor is trying to remove the political influence on the funding of non-profits by taking them out of the budget process and...
Making a bad situation, worse. And then better.
A compliment for the Wisconsin State Journal, the Mayor's Office and the Police Department. All in one day!Last night the first version of...
Back from vacation . . .
Ok - I'm back. For those of you complaining that I haven't updated my blog, here it is, but don't expect much - I've...
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...
Air Quality: Who Cares?
Well, if the warnings are correct - the business community may care! As well as the taxpayers. If the warnings the were...
Portage Tornado, a little too close to home.
Here's something you probably didn't expect from me (for so many reasons!) but, . . . last Tuesday, as I was in the...