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Is Madison ready to quit the crazy?
We hear things! Ran into Mike Verveer at Bob Keller’s funeral a week ago at Bethel Lutheran Church. Mike is by far Madison’s longest-serving alder — 30 years! We asked if the Council would finally pull the plug on the do-nothing Independent Police Monitor and its anti-cop Police Civilian Oversight Board. He thought maybe one…
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Prosecute your enemies
Pay nothing unless you win! If Donald Trump can bring peace to the Middle East maybe the strum und drang of this presidency will have been worth it. (Norway should worry how he’ll react to the Nobel Peace Prize sleight.) Now maybe the President can bring peace to these shores! This 33-year dues-paying RINO experiences a…
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Madison hired a police monitor who is triggered by police
Police make him sick! How much longer will progressive Madison gummint put up with its dysfunctional, deadweight Independent Police Monitor and its self-aggrandizing, virtue-signaling Police Civilian Oversight Board? Police Monitor Robin Copley is resigning after three years of … of what? … of drawing a taxpayer-paid salary because xxx/xxx/their post-traumatic stress disorder has returned. It…
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Stop the presses
The future is digital. We’re holding the Monday edition of the Wisconsin State Journal in our ink-stained fingers. Starting next month, we’ll have to get our Packer fix on-line, for the October 27 issue of Madison’s only daily newspaper will be the last committed to printed paper on a Monday. More days will follow, it…
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Big Gummint meets its day of reckoning
No county gov’t shutdown but how about a slow down? Dane County Executive Melissa Agard is imposing a hiring freeze and pay cuts across the board (albeit 1 percent) in her very first budget. Who did we elect last November? Scott Walker? Has the dear lady borrowed Elon Musk’s chain saw? For even the most…