Category: Madison schools

  • At some point, just vote no

    against the tax & spenders! Newspaper editorial pages are disappearing faster than fishing boats in the Caribbean. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel quit opinionating after being absorbed into the maw of the sprawling 280-newspaper Gannett chain. Here in Madison, the Wisconsin State Journal mostly runs shrink-wrapped opinions Lee Enterprises distributes to its 77 outlets. So it…

  • The Right ideas

    from ‘the wrong guy.’ News photograph shows Milwaukee Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan leaving the federal courthouse after the third day of trial Wednesday. The injudicious judge is charged with helping an illegal alien escape. Shouldn’t the judge herself be leaving through the secret, backstairs passageway?  You know you’re in trouble when a fellow judge testifies…

  • Can Madison WI afford to be any more progressive?

    WANTED: ‘social & economic justice’ for taxpayers! In a few months, The Capital Times will encourage voters to elect progressives to local political office. We know this from bitter experience. • As in March 2021, it announced “endorsements for a strong, progressive city council.” • The next year, it recommended 13 “Progressive voices for April voters.”…

  • The wrong guys open their property tax bills

    So much for the party of ‘affordability’ Years ago, making the workday commute, this scribe drove by a billboard that posed this question: “Why Do the Heathens Rage?” Now we know. Property tax bills were hitting mailboxes. Our neighbors here in Madison WI are raging mad, shocked that gambling is occurring in Casablanca. Typical is…

  • We thought it was a good idea

    to challenge Madison’s uni-party. But what do we know? A slew of elections looms on the calendar — city, county, and school boards galore, all non-partisan, supposedly. That won’t stop the Democratic Party of Dane County WI from endorsing candidates across the board. And funding them; and setting them up with web designers, campaign lit…

  • ‘I’m finding more victims every day’

    a cry of conscience from a parent addressed to Madison’s public schools. We devote this blog to Mr. Ray Mendez, parent of a Madison public school student to Superintendent Joe Gothard and the school board:  The head-stomping at Madison West was not a “fight.” It was a near-fatal attack. Madison Police arrested three teens; two are…