Category: Dane County Board
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Maybe she needs the money
Is Shelia Stubbs a triple dipper? By any standard, running Dane County’s sprawling Human Services Department is a full-time+ job. It would tax Tommy Thompson, the most workaholic executive we’ve ever known. Shelia Stubbs, the county executive’s nominee for Human Services, would hold that and two other jobs, simultaneously. Is that humanly possible? Dane County…
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Better jail is on life support
Will protesters demonstrate need for jail? The Defund Police contingent will storm the Dane County Board of Supervisors — physically and virtually — this Thursday 04-20-23 in an attempt to scuttle construction of more humane jail cells to replace the two floors of Alcatraz atop City-County Building. (More here.) The project requires borrowing an additional…
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Referenda to rear-end ya
On our Spring 2023 ballot Voted early this time (and only once, so far). They call it absentee in person, which makes a kind of only-in-Madison sense. Bottom of the ballot listed what looked like college essay questions. Either that or the disclaimers you click through without reading, alerting that the software you just downloaded…
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Dane County poised to bend over for government workers
From the county that can’t build a jail! Sore backs are an occupational hazard for the full-on Woke because there’s no end of kowtowing to the ever-growing number of special interest groups lobbying for special favors. To the unwhite, immigrant, poverty-stricken, homeless, LGBTQ+, differently abled, indebted college student, and otherwise oppressed add the downtrodden government…
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Dane County Board continues to spin wheels on jail
No referendum on jail consolidation! The Dane County Board voted 21 to 14 (with 2 absent) against asking voters in referendum whether to replace the near 70-year-old, Alcatraz-style county jail on the top two floors of the City-County Building in downtown Madison WI. The referendum supervisors turned down Thursday 01-19-23 would have asked for authority…
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Dane County jail’s Woke lack of empathy
Be careful with whom you stand on stage! Not for the first time, a black man played the race card against another black man deemed insufficiently Woke. Someone tell Dane County Supervisor Anthony Gray that gambit is getting old. His target: the Dane County Sheriff, who also identifies as black. No shortage of racists for…