Category: The Madison Scene
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Put up a statue of Chris Farley
down by the river! We interrupt our regular programming to help spread the most wonderful idea. You know it’s a great idea because Blaska didn’t think of it — so don’t blame the Head Groundskeeper. It’s time for a Chris Farley statue in Madison. Milwaukee has the Bronze Fonz, Minneapolis has Mary Tyler Moore throwing…
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Signs of the times
We believe we are royally screwed. In a few weeks political yard signs will sprout like dandelions on a No Mow lawn in progressive Madison — alongside the ubiquitous “In This House We Believe …” signs. (Notice? God is never among the listed.) Candidates who take Blaska’s advice do so at their own peril but…
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Bob Keller
R.I.P to a kind and generous man, age 98. A really wonderful man and valued friend passed away Saturday 09-27-25 at the great age of 98 years. Bob Keller raised a family of four sons in the Orchard Ridge neighborhood here on the SW side of Madison WI. Three of them worked alongside in the…
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Madison kowtows to UW’s keffiyeh kids
The WI State Journal is struck dumb! Day 5 of the UW-Gaza encampment here in Madison WI. (Where is Ted Koppel when we need him?) Tents went up Monday morning 04-29-24 on Library Mall in a nationwide, (and we think) organized, well financed college campus show of support for the Hamas-led Palestinians. Police swept through…
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Goodbye, Rick Berg
He wrote some history here. If Rick Berg had died 25 years ago — even without the drama of a hostage situation — it would have been Page One news here in Madison WI. As it was, only a paid obituary in Sunday’s WI State Journal announced his death 11-11-23 in hospital, with family at…
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Thanks! We needed that!
A pig in a backyard poke! It’s Page One news in Madison WI and deservedly so! Rudi the pet pig has run afoul of the law. The little porker faces exile from his city home on the near West side. The one-year-old exotic Piglet — a character out of Winnie the Pooh — apparently violates…