Category: Jail

  • New jail may leave penguins in the cold

    Public safety or pool tables for teenagers? Does this make more sense than anything you’ve heard from an elected official since Dan Quayle said a mind is a terrible thing to waste? The Dane County Board is voting tonight on borrowing another $21.7  million (and spend another accumulated $6 million) to cover the latest cost overrun…

  • Nothing like a good poke in the kidneys to prove your point

    “Well, stand your butt up then.””No, YOU stand your butt up!” Democratic Socialists of America and its publicist, John Nichols, are calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. How about a ceasefire in Congress? At least no one is beating each other with canes. Or shooting stone cold dead (as Ron DeSantis might say) a…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…