Tag: Brenda Konkel
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Once again, the do-gooders screw it up for everyone else
The Isthmus Daily Page Forum has some interesting speculation on the shooting at WORT radio early Sunday AM (08-05-18), to the effect that it may be less Trump versus the news media and more a hip hop kind of thing. No good deed goes unpunished We saw that coming, didn’t we? City, county and federal…
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Madison’s anti-cop cohort has been routed, 17-2
The indentured servants got an extra dollop of gruel in their pitiful bowls this morning. The Squire of the Stately Manor is feeling generous, flushed with success in helping persuade our recalcitrant Common Council to hire 8 more police officers. Eight in a force of over 450. When an independent staffing analysis proposed 23. A…
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Madison alders get two more kicks at the cops
Ald. Paul Skidmore just introduced a measure to add eight Madison police officers at $416,385 (including fringe benefits, uniforms, etc.) and three more marked squad cars for $163,530. Unfortunately, the measure needs 15 votes from the 20 alders because it amends the recently approved 2018 budget. That budget allocated a local dollar match reliant on a federal…