Category: Madison city government
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Is Madison willing to pay for a sales tax at the price a Republican legislature will charge?
Should five percent appear too smallBe thankful I don’t take it all‘Cause I’m the taxmanYeah, I’m the taxman — G. Harrison, The Beatles How serious is Madison city government about balancing its budget? Rather than address the over-spending that created its $27 million structural deficit, alders are chasing a rainbow-colored unicorn — a city sales…
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Hold the line on City of [Madison] spending
Earn cash by selling naming rights! It’s go to meetin’ time again, 6 p.m. today, Thursday 05-16-24 at (fill in the blank) Memorial high school here in the town still named after the fourth President and primary author of the Constitution, unWoke though he was. The City of [Madison] is trying to soften the ground…
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Pro-Hamas Democrats will ‘re-elect’ Trump!
Price check at City Hall! The City of Madison is now in the grocery business! Sweetened the pot with another $1 million. On top of $4.6 million to purchase ground-floor grocery space on S. Park Street in 2021 and another $2.9 million for improvements last year. Because south Madison is a food desert. No one…
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A Madison taxpayer cries ‘uncle!’
Where are the measurables? By Bonnie Roe 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝟭𝟯 𝗔𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗮𝗴 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀 sent out his weekly update, inviting residents to a “Budget Engagement Event” on May 29th! … That is pretty late in the process. Capital budget agency requests will already have been due and the agency briefings with the mayor will already have happened.…
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Asking for a friend
Anyone predict burning tires in our future? Eric Hovde promises to donate his salary if elected Senator. Why advertise that you are Daddy Warbucks? Chuck Schumer is telling Israelis to change leaders? How would Democrats like it if Bibi Netanyahu told American Jews to vote Trump? (Bonus question: How about we protect our own goddamn…
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Zero out the Police Civilian Oversight Board
It would be duplicative if it wasn’t so dysfunctional! And paranoid! The great thing about a bowl of corn flakes in the morning is they’re hard to screw up. You got to be trying. We say that about Madison WI with its lakes, natural beauty, university, and state government — not that the progressives who…