Well, here’s the media’s version, further edited by me, about what you need to know about local issues!
REFERENDA ON 1/2 CENT TAX ON COMMUTER RAIL WON’T MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Cuz, um, that isn’t the plan for the RTA, there isn’t one yet. I support the RTA and I’d vote no.
MADISON POLICE TO BE SUED. TEST CASE?
I wonder how much this will cost taxpayers?
FOOTBALL FANS RUN AMUK
71 ejected! And only 46 are students. 35 arrested and only 29 are UW students. Only 30 were underage drinking, what were the other 41?
BODIES
I always thought this exhibition was gross, but even more so now that regarding the bodies they “cannot independently verify that they do not belong to persons executed while incarcerated in Chinese prisons.”
RESIGN ALREADY
Or do we have to make Governor Jim Doyle take action.
$25M IN TAX CREDITS FOR HARLEY
To save jobs, but not until AFTER the union made concessions. That stinks. I wonder how that might have changed negotiations?
$9 PER VOTE?
That’s how much RoJo spent to win . . . personally.
LOVE THE RAGING GRANNIES!
It’s hard not to.
HAVE YOU GOTTEN YOUR COPY YET?
Bill assures me its ok, I’m not in it. And, “That’s a good thing.”
Isthmus news editor Bill Lueders will discuss and autograph copies of his new book, Watchdog: 25 Years of Muckraking and Rabblerousing, at the following locations:
5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21, Harmony Bar, 2201 Atwood Ave., 608-249-4333. Book Release Party, music by Peter Leidy
6:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24, Room of One’s Own, 307 W. Johnson, 608-257-7888 Noon – 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3, Wisconsin Book Festival, Wisconsin Studio, Overture Center
7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 13, Borders West, 3750 University Ave., 608-232-2600
2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23, Rainbow Bookstore, 426 West Gilman St., 608-257-6050
7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16, Barnes & Noble West, 7433 Mineral Point Road, 608-827-0809
WHERE’S WALDO
Ok, take this test, find the County Board on the County website. deFelice has a point. When I was asked, I said “I know I found it, but I don’t remember how.” All I know is I hope they take this opportunity to figure out how to make meeting materials more accessible. That’s the improvement I’m looking for. I want to be able to easily find resolutions and ordinance and reports and be able to link to them.
GROUP HEALTH 7TH BEST IN NATION
Really? I don’t have any complaints, but I don’t find it that great either. I’m guessing it says more about how bad other plans are . . .
GEESEPEACE
Alternatives to killing the geese by the airport . . . .
F-Bomb
4 times in on Daily Cardinal . . . article? . . . blog? . . . opinion piece? . . . I was actually interested in the content, but got seriously distracted by the language . . . not because I’m a prude, cuz I don’t care, just surprised to see it on the campus newspaper site. To the topic . . . too bad the Tenant Resource Center and the Student Tenant Union aren’t funded by ASM . . . there is a clear need for tenant resources on campus . . .
SAVING THE OVERTURE ON THE BACKS OF THE EMPLOYEES
If you read my blog post, you already know . . . but Brad Wirtz says it more bluntly here:
If the private operator hired all employees, the costs would go down because full-time permanent employees – including custodians and box-office workers – would become part-time hourly workers with lower pay and benefits, Wirtz said.
MORE BAD NEWS FOR UNIONS
Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery being picketed this morning.
VERVEER AND RUMMEL MEETING ON HIGH SPEED RAIL TONIGHT
Downtown Train Station Neighborhood Meeting
Monday, September 20, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Overture Center for the Arts, Promenade Hall
201 State Street
And the Overture meeting will be at the same time . . . but at the Municipal Building.
