There’s enough for a full post here . . . just wish there was more time . . .
CAP TIMES ON SOGLIN ON SNOW
This is a good article that sums things up well. No puff piece from Kristin this time! 🙂 And I have to admit, I liked the first line!
DANE COUNTY SHERIFF DEPARTMENT SCREW UP
It appears, they didn’t follow the law. Ooops. And, it makes the state’s problems with missing information even greater.
TOM FARLEY’S REPBULICAN IS SHOWING
Not just when he was running for Lt. Governor, but recently on thedailypage.com forum. Forward Our Motto looks at that and his anit-Madison atttitude. Is this guy ready to run for school board?
LANDLORD CAN NOW GET IN ON THE LOW-FLO TOILET DEAL
Need I say more?
NEED A BIKE RACK
The city is making a list, and checking it twice. Now is the time to let them know! Pssssst . . .. 1202 Williamson St, the cement pad is installed and everything, we waited all last year, and still, no bike rack. We through the old rack out there, but its not bolted down and we’d LOVE to have our new rack . . . soon!
UDC COMMISSIONER TELLS IT LIKE IT IS
In a story about the new 8 and 10 story buildings on Spring and Orchard, which I now can’t find but I think is a former version of this, we get this gem:
Student housing tower plans exceed neighborhood height limits
Published: January 4, 2010By Paul Snyder
Proposals for two new housing towers near the University of Wisconsin-Madison likely will need revisions before gaining approval from the city’s Urban Design Commission.
Gebhardt Development LLC on Wednesday will give an informational presentation to the commission on two new buildings that will replace four rental houses near the intersection of Spring and Orchard streets.
But with the proposed towers measuring nine and 10 stories, respectively, the commission likely will have a problem, since the Regent Street-South Campus Neighborhood Plan calls for a maximum building height in the area to be eight stories.
“We try to stick with neighborhood plans as closely as we can,” said Bruce Woods, Urban Design Commission chairman. “If they came in with extraordinary architecture, we might be able to work with them, but if it’s student housing, I highly doubt that’s the case.”
Woods said he’s aggravated by developers asking for more than what local plans allow.
“Look, let’s be honest and do it right,” he said. “We hear the argument that numbers can’t work economically, but I never believe that. I think it’s just a case of them not making as much money.”
SAFETY NET
Does anyone out there believe any more that we still have a safety net? Let’s just be real people, there is no safety net. There’s a few pillows and small trampolines scattered on the ground and if you’re lucky, you might hit one and just break a few bones . . . or you might not.
MIKE IVEY GETS ALL RADICAL
He asks, “now what?” in a story about the economy, but this is undoubtedly my favorite line . . .
Put another way, double-digit unemployment may be the new normal in an economy that has been putting profits before people ever since the steam hammer replaced the steel driver or computers replaced stenographers.
But wait . . . there’s this too . . .
The free-market-trumps-all crowd has been in charge since the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980. They’ve cut taxes on the wealthy, borrowed money to fund foreign wars and wiped away regulation on business.
And in the greatest sleight of hand, they’ve somehow duped the middle class into thinking their interests are more aligned with Wall Street and corporate executives than the single mom who just got laid off or the 55-year-old white collar guy whose pension was cut.
So what has 30 years of trickle-down Reaganomics brought us?
A neglected infrastructure of failing bridges and decaying rust belt cities, soaring health care costs and double-digit unemployment. The wealth gap between the rich and everyone else has never been wider, and the only solution offered is more of the same: tax cuts, deregulation and less government.
Interesting stuff from a guy who write for the business beat.
