Category: Madison city government
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An impertinent question: peer support for the Culver’s burglary victims?
Will the Focused Interruption Team be contacting the Chris Kneubuehl family in the wake of his death during an armed robbery at the Culver’s restaurant? Madison’s elected alders recently awarded $75,000 to address “racial disparities, violence, and division between communities.” The money was ear-marked for funeral arrangements, temporary housing, bus passes, food cards, smartphones, and…
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Power struggle in Madison’s Kremlin
In this corner, wearing the red trunks, Mayor Paul Soglin The challenger, wearing the black trunks, city alders Madison alders tonight will win at least one round of their on-going power struggle with Mayor Paul Soglin. They likely can muster the 14 votes needed to over-ride the mayor’s veto to create a full-time chief of…
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Madison residents appreciate their police as shootings proliferate, Council dawdles
“These acts of graciousness go a very long way of giving us a booster shot and we certainly need it.” — Police Chief Mike Koval photos and video by Norm Sannes You know, when we sit at the greeting table and shake hands with each of the officers and thank them, they — to a person —…
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The people spoke, the Council did the right thing by its police chief
Congratulations, people! We did it! A rare victory! Your e-mails, your comments and your testimony persuaded the Madison Common Council to do the right thing and recompense Police Chief Koval for all of the $21,953 he ran up defending himself against laughably frivolous charges that he called someone acting like a raging lunatic “a raging…
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Madison police endorse 4 candidates, shun 17 sitting alders!
As Rod Serling would say, for your electoral consideration: Consider that all 20 Madison aldermanic seats will be decided on April 4. 19 of those are incumbents seeking re-election. Only 5 incumbents are challenged (and one of the challengers is a write in). It is remarkable, therefore, that the Madison police union is Endorsing only 4 candidates. Even…