Tag: Madison
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‘You can’t ask … decent citizens who want to maintain the safety and dignity of their neighborhood to carry the load’
But first: Random thoughts on a No Packers Sunday, the first day of frost, Fall 2017. Not sure I’d watch if there was a game. Not because of kneeling but because of no Aaron Rodgers. Quotes of the Week “All I had to do was catch it and run forward.” — 300-pound Badger offensive left…
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Dane County is building a jail through a ‘racial equity lens’
Part #4: The myth of ‘institutional racism’ What does a progressive jail look like? Dane County is about to find out. A progressive jail would treat mental illness, avoid solitary confinement, train and educate as much as incarcerate. Fair enough. But here are the maddening part. The reconfigured jail would accommodate fewer inmates, even though…
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Two monuments defaced in Madison: one gets big media play, the vandalism to the police memorial, not so much
False flag operation? A reporter from Wisconsin Public Radio reached out Wednesday (9-20-17) to the Blaska Policy Werkes for a statement on the vandalism done to the Voluntarios Internacionales monument in James Madison Park. The reporter noted that just one month earlier, the Werkes had called for the removal of this monument to Communism, for…
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Build a big and beautiful jail, Dane County!
As The Donald might say The Squire lends the keys to the Stately Manor to my friend and former colleague, County Board Supervisor Mike Willett of Verona. Your Humble Bloggeur’s last great cause on the county board — back in 2004-6, was to enlarge the county jail. Dane County, the fastest growing county in the…
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Let the police round-up begin!
Bad boys, bad boys Whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do When they come for you? Madison, be prepared to sing along as we welcome the blue surge. Police Chief Mike Koval announced today a round-up of up to 60 people “who have been identified and vetted as some of our most egregious offenders and gang…
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Alder Rummel is ‘thinking deeply’ about gun violence
Did we say the worm has turned? (Oh yes we did!) Madison alders and their enablers are turning away from harassing Police Chief Mike Koval, suspending the micro-managing and second-guessing of his sworn police officers, and toning down accusations of endemic police racism. Glory be to God, the Madison Common Council has begun thinking about…