Tag: Dane County jail
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The ever disappearing Dane County jail
The George Floyd thing, again. Two weeks ago, the feckless overseers of the Dane County jail called for a time out. They didn’t have the votes for an additional $24 million to decommission the outdated two floors of Sing Sing-era cells atop the City County Building to build a more humane facility adjacent to the Public…
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Will Dane County show jail project ‘some radical, progressive love’?
April 5 elections won’t bring much relief. We just don’t have a good read on whether the Dane County Board of Supervisors will vote yes tonight 02-17-22 to improve the county jail. Our crystal ball awaits parts from our North Korean supplier. (It’s a supply chain thing.) At issue, whether to authorize another $24 million atop…
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Dithering on public safety for 16+ years
Bite the bullet! What’s the point of having your own blogge if you can’t settle a few scores. It’s my party and I’ll whine if I want to. Blaska left the Dane County Board in 2006 (at the invitation of the voters) in favor of a nondescript seat warmer. At the time, Blaska was fighting…
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Put the meeting disrupters in jail
No more Madison insurrections! There’s an argument to be made for continuing to Zoom (verb transitive) government meetings. Keeps Freedom Inc. and its BLM allies from shutting down democracy, which is legal in Madison WI but not in Washington D.C., apparently. The Woke mob shut down the County Board on June 2019 trying to prevent…