Tag: Gloria Reyes

  • Is case against Ald. Myadze progressive lawfare?

    Or too many snow flakes? We should know better than to wade into the He said/She said controversy over northside Madison Ald. Charles Myadze. But we don’t know better. Myadze is accused by multiple women, including Ald. Juliana Bennett, of what amounts to sexual harassment. Except that the resolution of censure, brought by 14 progressive…

  • Has Mayor Satya taken a position on police body cameras?

    After four years of dithering? Bonnie Roe of Madison Area Safety Connection says so. She quotes Satya Rhodes Conway at Monday’s 02-27-23 candidate forum: “What can we as a community, as a city, as a police department do to prevent police misconduct and prevent police violence in our community, and make sure that never happens…

  • Democrats may yet prove they can run a big city

    If they get control of the streets! With the election of Karen Bass in Los Angeles, black mayors run our four largest cities. Big deal. Eventually, everyone but the New York Times will quit playing identity politics. (Actual headline: “For Ghana’s only openly transgender musician, ‘Every day is dangerous’”) What IS relevant, Jason Riley in…

  • Are moderates safe in Madison any more?

    Wanted: political courage Former mayor Dave Cieslewicz has a brand new blog (wasn’t that a James Brown song?): Yellow Stripes & Dead Armadillos. (Those being the only things found in the middle of the road, it is said.) His blog’s subhead says it all: “a safe place for moderates in a polarized world.” Says something about…

  • Hoist the white flag over Madison schools

    Did you screw up? Blame the pandemic! It’s the all-purpose scapegoat. Some blame coronavirus for the insurrection at the nation’s Capitol 01-06-21. Madison’s school board president blames the Wuhan woo woo for the “dearth of candidates” running in this spring’s school board election. (Story here.)  Blaska Policy Werkes blames the school board president, Gloria Reyes.…

  • Send the principal to detention hall! 

    Inmates to run asylum! When Jack Nicholson, in the movie As Good as it Gets, tells the nice neighbor lady to “Sell crazy someplace else,” she must have set up shop in Madison WI. Madison is stocking up on crazy as if it were triple-ply toilet paper in a pandemic. Its public schools are hoarding…