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Madison hired a police monitor who is triggered by police
Police make him sick! How much longer will progressive Madison gummint put up with its dysfunctional, deadweight Independent Police Monitor and its self-aggrandizing, virtue-signaling Police Civilian Oversight Board? Police Monitor Robin Copley is resigning after three years of … of what? … of drawing a taxpayer-paid salary because xxx/xxx/their post-traumatic stress disorder has returned. It was caused “by years of regular, indirect yet in-depth exposure to graphic and violent police incidents.” Years of it! What graphic and violent police incidents? Not exposure to 5-year-old children cut down in gang cross-fire. Not the wailing of bereft mothers! Not the six Milwaukee…
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Stop the presses
The future is digital. We’re holding the Monday edition of the Wisconsin State Journal in our ink-stained fingers. Starting next month, we’ll have to get our Packer fix on-line, for the October 27 issue of Madison’s only daily newspaper will be the last committed to printed paper on a Monday. More days will follow, it says here, until news print disappears entirely. Another casualty in local journalism’s struggle for survival. Since 2004, the United States has lost one-fourth – 2,100 – of its newspapers. This includes 70 dailies and more than 2,000 weeklies, according to the University of North…
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Big Gummint meets its day of reckoning
No county gov’t shutdown but how about a slow down? Dane County Executive Melissa Agard is imposing a hiring freeze and pay cuts across the board (albeit 1 percent) in her very first budget. Who did we elect last November? Scott Walker? Has the dear lady borrowed Elon Musk’s chain saw? For even the most Woke of progressives — which Ms. Agard most certainly is — a $31 million structural deficit (4 percent of the total operating budget) is a wake-up call. Is it really conceivable that the shortfall could be “kind of dropped in my lap after I…
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It won’t sell in Rockford
How Democrats lost the working class. The party of More Free Stuff may have shut down the federal government but Blaska’s Policy Werkes will soldier on even if, like those generals summoned to the Hegseth/Trump endurance test, we sit on our hands, stone-faced and cold sober. Paul Fanlund visited his hometown of Rockford IL so we don’t have to. The publisher of Madison’s Capital Times sorrowed over the “block after block … of small and mostly neglected houses that suggested occupants … live paycheck to paycheck.” Mr. Fanlund exposed this glimmer of enlightenment: It might behoove comfortable Madison progressives…
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Bob Keller
R.I.P to a kind and generous man, age 98. A really wonderful man and valued friend passed away Saturday 09-27-25 at the great age of 98 years. Bob Keller raised a family of four sons in the Orchard Ridge neighborhood here on the SW side of Madison WI. Three of them worked alongside in the family real estate company. Keller Real Estate Group is headquartered in the historic office (originally the hdq of the state employees union where Bill Proxmire put out the Union Labor News) on West Washington Ave. Bob Keller possessed an encyclopedic knowledge of who built…
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