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This county board is for them, not us
Progressives protect their own! When a county committee voted to strip the sheriff of 28 deputy positions, (first reported here) it wasn’t to alleviate a $31 million budget deficit. No, they’re going to spend that $3.76 million of lost safety protection — just on other things. Like homeless shelters and more human services. Yes, in…
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Who speaks for the hard-working taxpayer
in Madison-area local government? Sheriff Kalvin Barrett warns that he will not be able to run the new county jail, currently under construction, if the Dane County Board slashes 28 deputy positions, as Supv. Heidi Wegleitner proposes. That’s just fine with Madison’s downtown, Tenney Park-area supervisor, for she is steadfastly Defund the Police, like so…
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Give it up, people!
GOP’s kooks in the crawlspace hurt the brand! They’re still at it! You’ll never guess who was responsible for the insurrection that attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Not the peace-in-the valley Proud Boys nor the kumbaya Oath Keepers. Not even Mike Pence for “failing to do the right thing.” No, the villain of 01-06-21…
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Hope struck out
Are we doomed to disappointment? Couldn’t bear to watch more than the top of the first inning. Brewers second baseman Brice Turang worked a walk against the improbable Shohei Ohtani. The cheap seats at Stately Blaska Manor thought this was the Milwaukee team we were accustomed to seeing — the team that created basepath havoc…
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Brave voices are stirring
But courage is needed. It is only a small generalization to say that elected government in Madison and surrounding Dane County wallows in guilt, apologizes for success, cultivates grievance, and celebrates victimhood. Now Mayor Satya wants to fly the Ho Chunk flag at city hall at equal height with the U.S. flag. The stolen land…
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Defund the police is not dead
Just more clever! Like we were saying in the last thrilling episode, the first impulse of the ruling UniParty here in Dane County is to slash law enforcement. After years of dithering over replacing an outdated and unsafe jail, our elected officials decided to build a new — but smaller — lock-up in Wisconsin’s fastest-growing…