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Robin Vos never subscribed to the Big Lie
The Speaker believed responsible conservatism wins elections. Not many Assembly speakers have cut so wide a swath as Robin Vos or engendered so much bilious spite — from members of his own Republican party. A record 14 years leading the majority party is itself historic, especially considering that my Republicans are less disciplined than feral cats on catnip. Republicans (too many self-employed small business people) just don’t fall in line like the community organizers in the other party. Case in point: Joe Biden taps Kamala Harris as his successor and Democrats take a knee. Speaker Vos, for just the…
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A little tough talk, in plain English
Give war a chance. Blaska has offered the Wisconsin State Journal, our favorite Madison morning daily newspaper (except for Mondays), his unique and under-appreciated talents to write an opinion column. Awaiting a response from whoever is its current editor. (They come and they go more frequently than Peruvian presidents.) If our price ($500 a pop) is too rich for your blood, make a counter-offer. As Jerry Lundegaard said in Fargo, “I’m working with ya on this thing here.” It could be our prose is too (how shall we say) “vivid” for the timorous. Blaska admits a stylistic debt to…
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UW-Madison invited a Republican!
O.K., he wasn’t exactly MAGA. Father was driving up East Washington Avenue while the little kid in back thought he would explode as the imposing State Capitol loomed ever larger through the windshield like a vision from the Wizard of Oz. How great must be this thing called “Gummint!” If Wisconsin were to build its state capitol today, from scratch, what would it look like? Doubtful anyone would attempt the inspiring Beaux Arts monument to democracy, built between 1903 and 1917. Hellz bellz, even the Catholic churches built these days are light on statutes, glittering mosaics and soaring arches. Where’s…
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Death was big news in small towns
‘The call of the Grim Reaper has again been heard in our midst‘ The Lovely Lisa is lobbying this scribbler to compose his obituary. Was it something we said? Our interest piqued, we plunged into the Sun Prairie Historical Society’s archive of obituaries, a great source of history. Struck by the attention paid to manner of death. Obituaries one hundred and more years ago were not paid but reported as legitimate news stories — especially so in a village of 938 people, the village’s head count in the year 1900. (Sun Prairie’s population today: 39,419!) Cannot improve on this lede,…
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Finally, charges
The vice president of the Madison school board and the CEO of non-profit Urban Triage were charged with misdemeanors on Thursday.
Maia Pearson and Brandi Grayson are both charged with resisting or obstructing an officer and disorderly conduct, online court records show. Both made initial court appearances Thursday morning and were given signature bonds.
The charges stem from a December 2025 incident outside a theater in downtown Madison. Police said Pearson drove over cones into a loading zone and caused a disturbance. She and Grayson allegedly refused to exit the vehicle and had to be removed by officers. — Channel 3000 News
Robin Vos, Speaker of the WI Assembly, announces today he is not seeking re-election to the legislature.
Today’s Laff Riot!
Anyone else think next we see Nancy Guthrie, she’ll be wearing a beret and holding an AR-15 in a bank hold-up?