Category: Madison city government

  • Wrong guy begins new year with right ideas

    You won’t go wrong with this agenda! Hard to believe it is 2026. Still remember the wonderment at the clock turning over to a new millennium, well, 26 years ago. (Still can’t count out Y2K freezing our computers.) In any event, we begin Year 10 of Blaska Policy Werkes with an annual tradition: the Head…

  • Madison school board veep & Brandi Grayson arrested

    The two apparently made quite the ruckus! Not-so-Independent Monitor to ‘take appropriate action’ Two DEI police critics were arrested on multiple charges in downtown Madison Friday night 12-19-25.  One of them is Maia Pearson, vice president of the Madison Metropolitan Board of Education and president of the City of Madison Police Civilian Review Board. She…

  • Can Madison WI afford to be any more progressive?

    WANTED: ‘social & economic justice’ for taxpayers! In a few months, The Capital Times will encourage voters to elect progressives to local political office. We know this from bitter experience. • As in March 2021, it announced “endorsements for a strong, progressive city council.” • The next year, it recommended 13 “Progressive voices for April voters.”…

  • Monona police chief answers Madison alders

    Monona never sends a bill; Why does Madison want to charge Monona for helping? We’re in a bad place when your elected officials blame the police for crime. Welcome to Madison WI! As we related in a recent thrilling episode,  Madison Alder Yanette Figueroa Cole wants to charge the City of Monona some unspecified large…

  • The wrong guys open their property tax bills

    So much for the party of ‘affordability’ Years ago, making the workday commute, this scribe drove by a billboard that posed this question: “Why Do the Heathens Rage?” Now we know. Property tax bills were hitting mailboxes. Our neighbors here in Madison WI are raging mad, shocked that gambling is occurring in Casablanca. Typical is…

  • Thank you, Monona police, for chasing the bad guys

    Madison defunds police by other means. The indentured servants here in the Orchard Ridge neighborhood wish to thank Police Chief Brian Chaney for keeping us safe. We do so although he is not our chief of police but runs the cop shop over at the City of Monona. We do so to assure Chief Chaney…