Category: Madison city government
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The Squire takes a knee for racial e-qual-i-tee!
The Squire is taking a knee — not, like Colin Kaepernick, to protest police brutality toward black people — but to protest the NFL’s brutality toward football players. (Aaron Hernandez, any one?) And the Left’s brutality toward the black community. Police and prisons are how whitey has kept the black man in his place ever…
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‘Real action’ is removing statues instead of improving schools or saving black lives
Symbols are important. Symbols communicate more viscerally than words. Think of the Statue of Liberty, the Arc de Triomphe, the Vietnam Wall, or the crucifix. At the other end of the ledger, Lenin’s Tomb, the swastika, and, yes, a triumphant Confederate general astride a prancing horse. If Madison had a symbol, it would have to…
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Madison alders feather their own nest but allow police to twist slowly …
The Squire can countenance the name-calling that comes with being a Reagan-Tommy Thompson-Act 10-supporting conservative in The Emerald City. He will suffer the credulous whose answer to every ill is blame white privilege, take away the guns, and demand More Free Stuff. They are easily countered. But insults to his intelligence curdles his cream. So…
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Shots fired; a report from the front lines of street crime and Madison politics
Wednesday, September 6. Your Humble Squire came, he listened, he spoke, he went home and deadbolt-locked the doors. It was the first of two budget listening sessions scheduled by Madison alders Matt Phair and Mo Cheeks, who operate as a duo. Kind of like Paul and Paula. The second budget session is scheduled from 10…
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Madison will fight crime as if it were the clap … somehow
“Where do we get the vaccine?” — Vicki McKenna Well, lookie here. Look, look, look who is getting tuff on crime. It’s the Dick and Jane of the Madison Common Council attempting to play Batman and Robin. Alders Matt Phair and Mo Cheeks, posing for holy pictures. Another press conference, another spray-the-wall with proposals and…
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155 years after their capture, imprisonment, and deaths — Mayor Soglin vows no rest for ‘traitors’
No doubt feeling the heat from fair-minded citizens and national ridicule, Madison Mayor Paul Soglin today doubled down on his unilateral decision to purify and sanitize the Confederates Rest section of Forest Hill Cemetery. Soglin this morning (8-21-17) issued a 2,160-word exercise in finger-wagging (Mayor’s Statement Here) to justify ripping away a plaque describing the provenance…