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Have our politics become deadly?
or just an excuse for hate? The former downtown Madison hotel employee accused of killing her co-worker in a parking ramp on W. Washington Ave. Sunday 03-22-26 blamed that co-worker for getting her fired. That, if one may speculate on a live criminal case (and what is to stop us!) appears to be the primary motivation for Diamond Wallace, who is accused of shooting to death her supervisor, Christine Jones, 61, of Cottage Grove. After being fired in April 2025, WMTV-15 news reports that hotel workers told police that Wallace subsequently caused disturbances at the hotel several times and…
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Who’s doing the oversight on human services?
At least someone is asking questions. Say this for Sean Burke, who is challenging incumbent Tommy Ryland for county board in District 12 east of the Dane County Airport: Sean Burke is a muckraker. Burke is asking why Dane County does not have a Human Services Board — or if it does, why it has only two members — well below the statutory threshold of seven. He also asks why it hasn’t met in five years. “The Human Services Board is not optional — it is a state-mandated oversight body designed to ensure transparency, accountability, and public input,” Burke…
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Keep issuing disorderly conduct citations, Madison police!
Get ’em young before they graduate to maximum security! Madison’s Office of Independent Police Monitor is hot and bothered that its nemesis, the Madison police department, charges disorderly conduct 50 times more often (it claims) than cops in Milwaukee. To which Blaska Policy Werkes says: GOOD! Well done! Keep it up! In its still shrouded annual report, the OIPM praises Milwaukee for “nearly eliminating disorderly conduct arrests through deliberate policy reform.” As if Madison should emulate Milwaukee, where crime per capita is worse than Chicago! • Milwaukee recorded 4,164 serious crimes per 100,000 population. Madison’s rate of serious crime…
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Sex workers are well Hong
Workers of the world, throw off your clothes! For the third straight month, the candidate leading all Democrats in the race for Wisconsin governor remains the one and only Francesca Hong, an out-front socialist like that New York mayor and unlike other Democrats who won’t admit it. John Nichols must be in socialist heaven right now, sharing the blessings with sinner and saint equally, according to their need. Expect a glowing profile in the next number of The Nation, along with a plea to rescue Cuba from capitalism. Mimicking Zohran Mamdani, State Rep. Hong last week introduced the “Wisconsin…
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No complaint too trivial
for Madison’s police hall monitor! We have reviewed the first four complaints adjudicated by Madison’s Office of Independent Police Monitor. The Cliff’s Notes summary: Don’t play against OIPM in Trivial Pursuit. The cases included in its still-withdrawn annual report amount to deploying the SWAT team over an expired parking meter. First, a word about the 70-page annual report issued last week and then withdrawn due to the cover art depicting Madison with two state capitols. Aside from the art, produced via artificial stupidity, the body of the report is comprehensive and well written, contrary to other accounts. Ms. Aeiramique…
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More Gruff, less UniParty, please
Miss Congeniality is too taxing! “Experience, priorities, and collegiality” — them’s the criteria our favorite Sunday newspaper here in Madison WI used in endorsing candidates vying for the April 7 election in the 13 contested Dane County supervisory districts. May it please the court of public opinion, a little less collegiality, a little more fight club. Collegiality is what got the Madison school board to post referenda for $607 million in new spending. Go With the Flow is how the county faces a $31 million deficit. Kumbaya pays the Independent Police Monitor a six-figure salary to harry the police.…
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“Feelings are increasingly treated not as signals to examine but as conclusions to affirm.” — psychotherapist Jonathan Alpert, “Politics as bad group therapy”
Today’s Laff Riot!
“Media: No motive yet In attack on Jewish synagogue by radical Muslim.” — Babylon Bee