Category: Madison city government
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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…
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It’s the law! (We think)
Never has election law been so unpredictable! As we age, we let go of some of our ambitions, realizing they will never materialize. The Head Groundskeeper has come to accept that he’ll never be put on paid leave, like Madison’s city clerk. Who among us has not stumbled across an overdue library book once thought…
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Madison alders take a pass
on supporting police and ethics! Shamefully, the Madison Common Council failed to uphold the Ethics Commission’s verdict of undue influence on the part of inveterate police critic Shadayra Kilfoy-Flores Tuesday 01-14-25. The City Ethics Commission had unanimously upheld an ethics complaint filed by a Madison police officer that Ms. Kilfoy-Flores attempted to use her position…
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Qwitcherbitchen
Sorry to ruin your Christmas but … “Kamala Cat Lady” yard signs are still stuck in the permafrost of Madison WI this cold winter’s day (in a deep and dark December). So why is Blaska nattering about candidates, campaigns, and elections?! Kick the habit! But an election looms on April 1 that will determine whether…
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Is case against Ald. Myadze progressive lawfare?
Or too many snow flakes? We should know better than to wade into the He said/She said controversy over northside Madison Ald. Charles Myadze. But we don’t know better. Myadze is accused by multiple women, including Ald. Juliana Bennett, of what amounts to sexual harassment. Except that the resolution of censure, brought by 14 progressive…