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Tag: Dane County Board of Supervisors

  • Waste, fraud & abuse in local gummint?

    If it’s Woke, look the other way! Elon Musk may be brandishing a chain saw like Leatherface, Madison may pour out by the thousands to protest (as they did Saturday 04-12-25), but it’s amazing what a little poke under the hood can reveal. Republicans forced an audit on the University of Wisconsin’s $21.8 million diversity,…

  • How much more progressivism can you stand?

    Can Dane County tolerate 8 dissenters out of 37? It was his greatest achievement as chairman of the Dane County Democrat(ic) Party, Wayne Bigelow boasted back then: defeating David Blaska for re-election to the Dane County Board of Supervisors. Must have been a slow year. In the 18 years since, Madison progressives have extirpated all…

  • Anti-jail anarchists tell district attorney to sit down and shut up

    People who do not respect other people will not respect the law Pardon me all to heck, but I do enjoy my schadenfreude served warm on a toasted bun, extra stadium sauce.   Led once again by Freedom Inc., Madison’s crazies did their best to disrupt the Dane County Board of Supervisors Thursday night as…

  • We remember Wiggie

    He was one of a kind Our friend and colleague Dave Wiganowski died April 17 while on a flight to Laughlin, Nevada, of a heart attack at age 67. A celebration of his life will be held Saturday, June 2, at Wiggie’s tavern. Wiggie cut a wide swath through Madison and made friends with everyone…