Man reads newspaper under lamp
John Koch, “The Reader” 1935

Category: poverty

  • An apology, Senator!

    Shouldn’t everyone get one? Nino Amato wants an apology. So do Betty Mitchell Banks, a children’s TV producer; Richard Harris, author of Growing up Black in S. Madison; and M. Kinney James, Madison’s first black woman police officer. The last three want mea culpas, on behalf of black people uprooted from Madison’s old Greenbush neighborhood.…

  • Pooping and popping at Madison’s Social Justice Center

    City attorney describes public nuisances. Madison’s woke progressives invoke “economic justice, social justice,” and “racial justice” as phonetic talismans to justify redistribution, disorder, and race-shaming. Should surprise no one that our beloved city has a locus for this political malpractice. The Social Justice Center is located at 1202 Williamson Street. Progressive Dane, Democratic Socialists, and…

  • Republicans would rather teach the poor to fish

    Than subsidize poverty! Blaska gave his old boss Dave Zweifel plenty of excuse to fire his sorry ass. Especially the time your irascible blogger blocked the employee side entrance at The Capital Times with his Saab 900 because the computer system shorted out a news story he spent all weekend writing. In retrospect, the electrical…