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David Blaska
David Blaska
@davidblaska@davidblaska.com

Madison WI

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  • ‘I’m finding more victims every day’

    a cry of conscience from a parent addressed to Madison’s public schools. We devote this blog to Mr. Ray Mendez, parent of a Madison public school student to Superintendent Joe Gothard and the school board:  The head-stomping at Madison West was not a “fight.” It was a near-fatal attack. Madison Police arrested three teens; two are…

  • Republicans helping our kids learn

    by banning smartphones in the classroom! No thanks to Assembly Democrats Gee Wally, even Tony Evers signed it. Just today! A bill to ban smartphones during school hours. Something Madison’s public schools could not bring themselves to do. Something Democrats here in Dane County and statewide could not bring themselves to support. Nineteen states already…

  • Let’s make more political points!

    How else can we hold Jill Underly accountable? Can’t help but imagine The Capital Times, more progressive than Zohran Mamdani in a keffiyah, wishes it had exposed Republican wrong-doing instead of getting the goods on the state’s hyper-Woke school marm, Jill Underly. But it committed some real journalism and now it has to live with…

  • Madison’s public schools are progressive

    expensive and disappointing. Everything progressives believe about K-12 education is wrong. It’s minority students who suffer most. So says The Atlantic magazine — hardly a MAGA outlet.  “America is Sliding Toward Illiteracy,” its headline warns. “Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.” Bad enough State schools superintendent Jill Underly cooked the books to…

  • Left wing laments the East Wing

    Which was (once) attached to the White House. The Dan Quayle Reading Room here at Stately Blaska Manor holds a most wonderful coffee table book, The White House; an illustrated history.” Published in 2003 “in cooperation with the White House Historical Assn.” Many photos, fold-outs, cutaway schematics. Pictures of John-John peering out from under JFK’s…

  • The party of Defund the Police

    and making excuses for crime. As Dane County goes, so goes the Democratic party of Wisconsin. Democrats in every one of the other 71 counties — even Milwaukee — live in Dane County’s shadow. Dane County Democrats set the agenda, run the party, and elect governors and senators from among their ranks. Thanks to Dane…