Category: Dane County Board
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Jail, bail, and justices
Public safety is on the ballot April 4 Come Spring, Dane County voters could be asked to vote for public safety three times: • For a new jail addition to replace the Alcatraz-style original jail;• A law and order supreme court justice;• Allowing judges to consider the severity of the crime when they set bail.…
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Majority of Dane County Board is hard left
Shrink the jail is another ‘Defund the Police’ Joe Parisi may not have a spine, but there is some cartilage in the man, after all. The Dane County Executive on Wednesday 11-16-22 vetoed the County Board’s attempt to shrink the new jail addition down to five floors, which is down from six, which was down from…
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Republicans got to work Dane County in the local races
Can’t just flip on the switch for president and governor! The bloodied corpse of the 2022 mid-term election is laying on the stainless steel slab and Wisconsin Republicans, like those nationwide, are conducting an autopsy — when they aren’t engaged in backbiting and recriminations. Ron Johnson won re-election to a third six-year U.S. Senate term…
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Any more ‘criminal justice reform’ and we’ll all be on lockdown
Study wrong thing, get wrong answers. The decades-long dithering over modernizing the county jail will never end if our elected leaders can’t rub two cogent thoughts together, never mind bricks and mortar. The Public Safety Building opened for business in 1994, augmenting the old and outdated jail on the top two floors of the City-County…
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Joe Manchin, PG people, and brother’s Monona Terrace
There was bipartisanship once in Madison WI. Joe Manchin is trying to save Democrats but they won’t have it. Once again sabotages President Biden’s plan to raise taxes in the midst of Jimmy Carter-level 9.1% inflation and to fight — not the border crisis or the baby formula shortage or even the Russkies — but…
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How would end of Roe hurt Queer folk the most?
Where’s OUR $1,000? and other impertinences! It’s entirely performative but maddening, just the same. The Dane County Board of Supervisors is poised Thursday 05-19-22 to support abortion on demand. It’s a reaction to the Supreme Court’s anticipated decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Org. The ordinance urges the repeal of state law (held in abeyance) banning abortion.…