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Tag: Nino Amato

  • This county board is for them, not us

    Progressives protect their own! When a county committee voted to strip the sheriff of 28 deputy positions, (first reported here) it wasn’t to alleviate a $31 million budget deficit. No, they’re going to spend that $3.76 million of lost safety protection — just on other things. Like homeless shelters and more human services. Yes, in…

  • We don’t know if taxpayers are being ripped off

    Which is why a full audit is called for! We teased subscribers with a headline “Are taxpayers being ripped off?” Put a password on it so as to run the draft by some of the principals. Lots of response. We don’t have the forensic tools to determine who is right, which is why we need…

  • It’s the law! (We think)

    Never has election law been so unpredictable! As we age, we let go of some of our ambitions, realizing they will never materialize. The Head Groundskeeper has come to accept that he’ll never be put on paid leave, like Madison’s city clerk. Who among us has not stumbled across an overdue library book once thought…

  • Madison alder races shaping up wet and wild

    A comeback for Marsha Rummel and Nino Amato? If The Werkes were conspiratorially minded, we would wonder why two of the Madison Common Council’s few moderate (not conservative!) alders were being moved into new districts. If our tinfoil hat didn’t already pinch, we’d also note that both Sheri Carter and Barbara Harrington McKinney face hard-left…