Category: Madison city government
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We monitor the police monitor
for Schlitz and giggles because you can’t kill it! Beginning to think the only reason Madison’s Independent Police Monitor survives like Rasputin after being poisoned, stabbed, and drowned is because throwbacks like Blaska keep trashing it. (We earned our paranoia.) But here comes Madison’s latest (we’ve lost count) police monitor hire, Aeiramique Glass Blake —…
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Is Madison ready to quit the crazy?
We hear things! Ran into Mike Verveer at Bob Keller’s funeral a week ago at Bethel Lutheran Church. Mike is by far Madison’s longest-serving alder — 30 years! We asked if the Council would finally pull the plug on the do-nothing Independent Police Monitor and its anti-cop Police Civilian Oversight Board. He thought maybe one…
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Is ambitious lakefront project skirting the law?
“Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably will not themselves be realized.” We subscribe to 19th Century planner Daniel Burnham’s credo. Think of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Hoover Dam, the Statue of Liberty, Central Park, Wisconsin’s own beaux arts…
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Madison police monitor cries fascism
urges even more resistance to immigration law! Abraham Lincoln was wrong when he predicted that the world would little note nor long remember that speech he delivered on an exhausted battlefield on that day of memorial. Madison WI has noted not at all the musings of one Robin Copley. But in commemoration of the five-year…
