It’s August, and there isn’t much to round up, but here’s what I’ve got.
AFTER 100 YEARS, SHOULD THE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER DIE?
Never, never. That’s quite the cut in funding. Just more fallout from the changes in priorities and funding silos that the council will have to deal with during the budget, since they didn’t deal with it when the priorities were before them. They were too interested in dealing with the Edgewater that night. Now many agencies are seeking devastating cuts.
TIF JOINT REVIEW BOARD DOES COUNCIL’S WORK FOR THEM
Great questions! Too bad the council didn’t spend the time on this that it deserved. Instead, is just got swept up in the madness. All the details here.
IS MAYOR DAVE A BULLY?
A little article about Ken Golden running for mayor raises an interesting point. See my comment there.
POCKET ASHTRAYS?
Think this is really going to help?
RIDE THE DRIVE SUNDAY
Where’s the detour map and information for downtown residents about how to escape the Isthmus if you live here?
HAVE YOU REFINANCED LATELY
Gotta love those interest rates.
TECHIES UNITE!
I hope this turns out better than the whole Google thing.
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE TURTLES
For those of you who think WYOU is just about Cooking with Bob. Check this out as a sample of what community television can be about.
OR TRY THIS
More good stuff from WYOU. Where else are you going to see an in depth interview with candidates for office? I understand more candidate interviews are scheduled.
Interview with Ben Manski from luciano M on Vimeo.
NEXT HIGH SPEED RAIL MEETING
TUESDAY, AUGUST 31
from 4:30‐7:30 p.m.
Wisconsin Department of Administration building
101 E. Wilson, Madison
Updated Madison station design information available throughout the meeting. Madison station preliminary
cost estimates, conceptual site layout and platform layouts.
RADIO PROGRAM ON FORECLOSURES
John Quinlan is the host . . .
Please join us on Friday’s “A Public Affair,” at noon on WORT-FM, 89.9 and streaming live/podcasting at www.wort-fm.org for a consumer-friendly offering of practical advice, for folks facing challenging decisions in a difficult economy. Our guest will be mortgage lending specialist Niel Moser, and our primary topic will be “Dealing with Mortgage Delinquency and Foreclosure.”
When people come upon hard times, there’s no shortage of places offering financial counseling and other help–but in each case, the question must be asked, in whose best interest? Many of these services are funded by the credit card companies or the lending industry, and their advice may be skewed accordingly. If facing difficult choices, you need advice with your own best interests in mind. We’ll help lay out your options, and give you a sense of what consumer-friendly resources are available to help.
Few people expect to find themselves in the position of foreclosure or default on other debts. A natural human reaction in a majority of people is to shut down, and let the process happen to them, rather than being pro-active. But despite the difficult dilemmas represented here, there are options and strategies that can help in the event of foreclosure. We’ll discuss some of those strategies, with an approach that encourages you to do what’s best for your family and your situation, which may or may not be resonant with the expensive advice you’re obtaining elsewhere from sources that might have a vested interest.
While much of what will be discussed will be practical, with your help, we’ll also be examining the Bigger Picture. How did we get to this place? Who’s responsible? And are current proposed reforms really getting at the underlying problems with the system?
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Niel Moser has been in the mortgage lending arena for over 40 years. He has been a mortgage originator and a mortgage loan servicer as well as being part of senior management of a national private mortgage insurance company and of CUNA Mortgage Corporation here in Madison. For the last 20 years, Niel has been helping members of credit union with mortgage lending. He started his own company, Home Mortgage Solutions 10 years ago and presently is a consultant to credit unions and to consumers as President and owner of Home Ownership Solutions, LLC (www.homeloanguide.net).
Niel helps people with home buying, improving credit scores, and he assists people with delinquency and foreclosure issues. He is a member of the Dane County Foreclosure Prevention Task Force and presently serves on the boards of the Madison Area Community Land Trust and the Community Shares of Wisconsin. Niel has also been a consultant to WHEDA, to Commonwealth Development, a Madison affordable housing non-profit, and to many small credit unions in Wisconsin.
LATINO PARENTS AND STUDENTS SUMMIT
SAVE THE DATE! RESERVA LA FECHA!
SECOND LATINO PARENTS & STUDENTS SUMMIT
SABADO, 25 DE SEPTIEMBRE
9AM -4PMThe Immigrant Workers’ Union along with the Latino Parents Organization at LaFollette and other allies invites you! The aim is create a venue for parents of different schools to meet and network with each other in order to be better involved in their children’s education. For both immigrant parents and students a great deal of the quest for success in this country comes from the education system. The event is free and open to any student or parent in the district.
More info/registration: APEmadison.info
contactar: Yvonne 608.335.0357, yvonne@uniondetrabajadores.org
SNAKE ON THE LAKE
Starts at 4:00, goes til midnight.
Friday, September 3rd marks WSUM – Madison Student Radio’s 4th annual Snake on the Lake Music Festival. Join WSUM for a night of free music on the Memorial Union Terrace in celebration of the new school year, or in mourning of the summer, for those Debbie Downers out there!
This year’s lineup includes:
Maps & Atlases
http://www.myspace.com/mapsandatlasesFlight
http://www.myspace.com/flightnoisePhonetic ONE
http://www.myspace.com/flightnoiseMeteorade
http://www.myspace.com/meteoradeAND
Klassik
http://www.iamklassik.com/WSUM DJs will also be featured to keep the music going throughout the night!
Sponsored by Capital Centre Market.
BOOK DISCUSSION AND POTLUCK AT TROY GARDENS
A potluck and discussion of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot will be held on Thursday, September 9 from 6:30-7:30pm at Troy Gardens. Part of Go Big Read, UW–Madison’s common-reading program, the event is sponsored by Community GroundWorks and Lakeview Branch Library.
Katie Scharf, neighborhood librarian, and Troy Gardens staff will be on hand to facilitate the discussion. The story of Henrietta Lacks, the African-American cancer patient who was the unwitting donor of the “HeLa” cells which have directly aided many advances in modern medicine, raises issues of medical ethics, poverty, racism, ownership rights and the law.
Copies may be reserved by contacting any Madison Public Library or stop in at Lakeview and tell them you are a part of the Troy Gardens’ discussion group. Frugal Muse bookstore will also stock copies. Join us at beautiful Troy Gardens with a dish to pass, a place setting and your opinions of the book. In case of rain, we will meet at the Lakeview Library in the Northside Town Center. Call Katie at the Library, 246-4547, with any questions.
I gotta be in Milwaukee by 9:00, so that’s it for this morning, even tho more news is coming out as I finish this up . . . but I’m guessing I won’t miss much . . . even tho it is “bad news Friday”.
