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Category: School Board Election 2019

  • Madison WI progressives are the ‘uniparty’

    Republicans fear entering ‘the political scrum’ Questions we never expected to see asked in The Capital Times: “Progressives have full control of the city and its schools. Is it for the better?” Figures that it is a freelance journalist, not a CT staffer, posing the question — Marc Eisen, formerly editor of Isthmus. Mr. Eisen…

  • Crime and schools are on the city ballot

    More so in Chicago than in Madison, unfortunately. Election central is up and running here at the Policy Werkes. A bottomless pot of Maxwell House percolates on the Monarch kitchen range, rabbit ears on the b&w Philco are perked up for the latest update, the wall-sized blackboard is charted into rows and columns like a…

  • Exposing the real racists

     One chapter at a time! The head groundskeeper is absorbing a godsend of a book, Woke Racism, “How the new religion has betrayed black America.” Anticipated it a while back. We’re lapping it up like milk by a dog rescued from one of Dr. Fauci’s experiments. White people calling themselves our saviors make black people…

  • Vote NO! for better schools

    To get their attention on Nov. 3! Another election is approaching, which means the Madison school district has its hands out for more money. Time to do like Sister Mary Rosaria and slap that hand with a steel-edge ruler! The Madison Metropolitan School District seeks a one-time infusion of $317 million to fix stuff, buy…

  • Liberal Madison congratulates itself for good intentions

    The sweetest sound you’ll ever hear: David Blaska was right! The news media loves to imagine itself as the afflicter of the comfortable,  David with his slingshot v. Goliath. “J’accuse!” in 96-point bodoni bold type. Edward R. Murrow starring down Tailgunner Joe. Bogart starting the presses in Deadline USA. Woodward and Bernstein.    ­   In…

  • Friends of Mirilli have inside track on Madison school board pick

    UPDATE 07-23-19: It’s Savion Castro, also a friend of Mirilli and Muldrow. We checked four of the first five boxes correctly. We handicap the field of 29 applicants for the vacancy on the Madison school board. The six current members will select a replacement for Mary Burke among 29 applicants (twenty-nine!) early this evening (07-22-19).…