Being caught up means its a little less lengthy.
A TALE OF TWO NEWSPAPERS, WHICH IS RIGHT?
Jin’s Chicken and Fish Revoked After Many Violations or City Council may suspend Jin’s license after ongoing problems Vending Oversight approves proposal that would remove cart from Madison for 1 year
In the accuracy department Badger Herald: 1, Daily Cardinal: 0
MMSD THIS WEEK
Here’s a whole lotta links to important issues with the schools.
SCHOOL BUDGET GAP CLOSED TO $12M
At this point, they’re making that $30M gap look easy. But I suspect it starts getting a whole lot harder as the choices get narrowed. Of course, this kind of thing helps:
Superintendent Dan Nerad started the budget discussion Monday with the news that more than nine full-time jobs for bilingual resource specialists had been double-counted in budget estimates, allowing the board to remove $632,670 in expenses for those duplicate positions.
Also, the rise in employee health insurance costs for the 2010-11 school year had been overestimated, resulting in costs that are $1.4 million less than projected, Nerad said.
Sigh, I hear there are multiple other mistakes, but lets hope they keep having these kinds of results. I’m not feeling very confident in this process tho if they the administration was off by $2M.
TELL THEM WHAT YOU THINK!
Plenty of time to tell the school board what you think by sending an email to board@madison.k12.wi.us. They have other public input opportunities as follows:
April 18
1:00pm
Public hearing at Warner Park Community Center
Public can register to speak (3 minutes each)May 3
Regular Board of Ed meeting
Doyle Building/Auditorium
Public speaking available.
They need to wrap this all up by May 4th.
SCHOOLS SO DESPERATE THEY WANT YOUR JUNK
The thought of the schools having 9 year old computers makes me shudder. Even the Tenant Resource Center has done better than that!! And we “make do” with alot of hand me downs and things held together with bubblegum and duct tape.
WHO’S BENEFITING FROM THE MAYOR AND KATHLEEN’S EUROPE BIKE TRIP?
Those bicyclist, they have good spin. No pictures of the lobbyists they took with them, and the reports are about ideas they saw, now, how about the truth, what’s the rest of the trip like? Everyone keeps asking me who is paying? Who is paying?
WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL FIGHTS FOR WHISTLE BLOWERS!
Or their own butts?
Dubbed the Whistle-blower Protection Act, AB 333 would better ensure protection of confidential sources who tip off news reporters to waste, fraud and abuse in government or the private sector.
Court rulings already offer some protection to whistle-blowers and the journalists who take up their causes.
I JUST LIKE THIS
Do you know where this photo is taken in Madison? I do. I like the choice of photo as well as the challenge.
CITIZENS UNITED FOR POETIC JUSTICE
This kinda made me laugh. Not really funny ha-ha, but funny, sad.
WHAT IS YOUR SHARE OF A US SOLDIER?
Just in time for tax day:
We’re often urged to “Support the troops”, but how can we measure our support? Thanks to a new web application, taxpayers can see how many troops – or rather, what tiny fraction of a single troop – they are supporting with their tax dollars.
Using a Congressional Budget Office estimate that it costs $1 million to send one soldier to Afghanistan for one year, the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice has developed a handy web tool that enables any taxpayer to see a graphic display of the fraction of a U.S. soldier that his or her federal taxes have paid for.
“Though the average taxpayer will only see the graphic’s American-flag display reach as high as the soles of the soldiers boots, the truly wealthy can see the flag reach up to the soldier’s knees, or perhaps even his belt buckle”, said Steve Burns, Program Director of the Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice.
Using the web tool, a married couple with two children and an annual income of $75,000 can see that the $540 in federal taxes deducted from their paychecks every month would pay for seven-tenths of one percent of the cost of sending one soldier to Afghanistan.
Congress will be voting soon on a $33 billion funding bill to pay for President Obama’s plan to send 30,000 more troops into the Afghanistan war. The Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice is encouraging Wisconsin residents to call their members of Congress to urge them to vote against the funding bill.
