Tag: Homeless

  • Housing the homeless comes at a price

    Especially when they don’t have to be clean and sober The cost of compassion “We must continue to create more affordable housing in Dane County,” Dane County Executive Parisi vowed last year. Madison Mayor Paul Soglin chimed in: “Tree Lane is a critical element in our commitment to provide affordable family housing. The Tree Lane…

  • Mo Cheeks, champion of street corner scammers, running for mayor

    Identity politics will be on the ballot next spring Stopping at the corner of Whitney Way and Odana Road, the Squire had a flashback. (No, not from the orange sunshine back in the day.) Just a year ago, motorists at Madison’s busiest intersections were confronted by professional panhandlers masquerading as “homeless.” Today, Madison’s byways and highways…

  • On Starbucks and Meadowood Library

    The Stately Manor is open to customers only A few years back, drunken bums set up housekeeping at a Brittingham Park shelter. Comfy on sofas discarded on curbside, they blasted tunes on boom boxes as they got their jones on by mid-day. Homeless advocates celebrated the squalid squatters as if they were integrating the neighborhood.…