Category: Satya Rhodes-Conway
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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…
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No chin wags with Republicans?
They hold the purse strings! Paul Soglin’s bill of particulars: (In the 17-2 vote in August 2024 to approve the referendum, only current alders Isadore Knox Jr. and Barbara Harrington-McKinney voted no.) Blaska’s Bottom Line: Another former mayor, Dave Cieslewicz, opposes both school referenda! Who else thinks all three are going down?!
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Why is Brandi Grayson getting paid more than the governor of Wisconsin?
Are there no city audits? None dare call it reparations! Paul Soglin, mayor of Madison for 22 years over three non-consecutive terms, has become the face of opposition to the City of Madison’s referendum seeking to blow past state-mandated revenue limits by $22 million. Soglin exposes the lavish executive pay the City awards its so-called…
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City of Madison did not lobby Republicans
for more state revenue! After filing an open records request, citizen watchdog Bonnie Roe finds that not once did the City of Madison lobby a single Republican legislator for financial assistance during the last 18 months even as its $22 million budget hole became apparent. That’s important because Republicans control the purse strings in state…
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Slip sliding away
Are we living in an A&E reality show? The b&w Philco here at the Stately Manor flickers with a cable TV series out of Canada showing tow truckers pulling big rigs out of the ditch, set to narration appropriate to D-Day. Seriously, that’s the show. Another has semi-truck drivers negotiating icy roads somewhere north of…