Category: Dane County Board
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Surrender, Dorothy! The UniParty won
Preparing for our blindfolds! We’re holed up in a crevasse awaiting rescue after Tuesday’s non-partisan (Yeah! RIGHT!) election results. The few of us who vote conservative are lying low, tapping out Morse code with a spoon, looking to the skies for salvation, whether in the form of US Air Force HH-60W combat rescue helicopters or divine…
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Vote ’em out! Vote ’em all out!
Business as usual isn’t working! Let’s make this simple, O.K.? Election day is tomorrow, Tuesday April 7 — a day that will LIVE in infamy. Some of you may not have voted yet; many of you never vote in a Spring election. That’s what the UniParty is counting on. They have their lists, they know…
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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…
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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…
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How the mighty have fallen!
The Badgers and Blaska are upset! As we noted a few thrilling episodes ago, before today’s tragic outcome in Portland OR, former Ohio State star Clark Kellogg on CBS picked High Point U, seeded #12, to upset our beloved Wisconsin Badger basketball team, the 5 seed in the NCAA tournament. And so they did this…
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What time is it boys & girls?
It’s time to go negative! Our time on this earth is all too brief, which is why we model our lives on this sacred principle: It’s never too early to go negative. If we have a book in us, it would repudiate that 1960s tie-dyed sugar bomb, I’m O.K. — You’re O.K. Some people aren’t,…