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Category: Madison city government

  • Maybe now the dead Confederates will be left to rest in peace

    Catching up with history We think the Madison Council will move on Sorry to break this to you, but Blaska does not possess every super power. Yes, he has the amazing ability to look into the past. He possesses an incredible command of the obvious. But he cannot be two places at once. The squire…

  • Our tax dollars financed ban on cops from Madison Gay Shame Parade

    ‘Simply pathetic’ Still waiting for that first elected official to denounce the cop hate The City of Madison, Dane County, and the State of Wisconsin are major funders of Outreach, the organization that caved to the International Socialist Organization and Freedom Inc. to ban police from Sunday’s Gay Pride Shame parade (08-19-18). The Blaska Policy…

  • Madison justice is one big joke: ‘Joking, laughing teens arrested for auto theft’

    Quick, more Restorative Justice! Q. Why did 4 teenagers steal a car? A. It beats walking Excerpting freely from this week’s Capital Newspapers account headlined: “Joking, laughing teens arrested for auto theft.” Four Madison teens — two 14-year-old girls, a 14-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl — were arrested Wednesday afternoon for driving recklessly around town…

  • Housing the homeless comes at a price

    Especially when they don’t have to be clean and sober The cost of compassion “We must continue to create more affordable housing in Dane County,” Dane County Executive Parisi vowed last year. Madison Mayor Paul Soglin chimed in: “Tree Lane is a critical element in our commitment to provide affordable family housing. The Tree Lane…

  • Madison has too much government

    More government is going to do more governing. It’s a law of physics. They say journalism is the first draft of history. A blogge is the first draft of journalism. Like beaujolais nouveau. Do not swirl, do not sniff, do not savor. Just drink it down and open the next bottle. So these are off-the-top…

  • Mo Cheeks, champion of street corner scammers, running for mayor

    Identity politics will be on the ballot next spring Stopping at the corner of Whitney Way and Odana Road, the Squire had a flashback. (No, not from the orange sunshine back in the day.) Just a year ago, motorists at Madison’s busiest intersections were confronted by professional panhandlers masquerading as “homeless.” Today, Madison’s byways and highways…