Tag: Paul Soglin
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Mayor Soglin proposes $17 city vehicle registration fee
Facing a $5 million budget shortfall, Mayor Paul Soglin is proposing a $17 city vehicle registration fee. Soglin told alders: Dane County proposed its local vehicle registration fee in their 2018 operating budget. Revenues from the fee will be used for existing transportation purposes in the county budget. Current revenues supporting those transportation costs are…
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Don’t know much about (police) history
Their minds are closed; don’t confuse them with facts The Madison Common Council did something good Tuesday 05-15-18 and they will get some credit for it: they expressed their appreciation for police during National Police Week. Unanimously. (Their resolution.) Mayor Paul Soglin recalled how Madison’s finest turned back an outbreak of homicides. Ald. Skidmore handed…
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You’re invited for punch and munchies after Confederate Rest removal ceremony
More likely to be spirited away in the dead of night It seemed like a reasonable question. Would Madison city government hold a ceremony when the forklift yanks the memorial stone from Confederate Rest cemetery? Mayor Soglin at the controls. A gaily colored ribbon decorates the hydraulic lever. Cameras roll. Invited speakers congratulate city leaders…
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Veteran of Wisconsin’s Iron Brigade asked former Confederates to fund monument at Forest Hills
After the death of Alice Whiting Waterman in 1897, Madison resident Hugh M. Lewis, who had been a captain in Company A of Wisconsin’s famed Iron Brigade, appealed to his Southern counterparts in Washington D.C., to raise money for a lasting memorial to the selfless lady and “her boys,” the southern soldiers who died as…
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Charleston remembers Confederates and rebellious slaves
Monument to leader of a slave rebellion is located in a park named after a secessionist and Lost Cause progenitor Amtrak is building a new, multi-modal passenger station in North Charleston, S.C. We thought it odd that the current train station still has telephone booths with working, coin-operated telephones— two in each of the identical…
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Union soldiers helped dedicate the Confederate Rest monument
Your Humble Squire shared his wisdom with three Madison agencies meeting jointly Tuesday night over the Confederate Rest monument issue at Forest Hill Cemetery. Those being the Park Commissioners, Landmark Commission, and Equal Opportunity Commission. They will ultimately decide the fate of two memorial stones erected there, one of which Mayor Soglin unilaterally had removed…