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Tag: Paul Vallas

  • Who’s running this show?

    You don’t want to know! Yeah, O.K., spending one hundred grand to pay for out-of-town head hunters only to wind up with the obvious choice for Madison schools superintendent, a local boy with a national reputation who wants to return home to Madison, is taxpayer money down the drain. But it’s small change compared to…

  • Crime and schools are on the city ballot

    More so in Chicago than in Madison, unfortunately. Election central is up and running here at the Policy Werkes. A bottomless pot of Maxwell House percolates on the Monarch kitchen range, rabbit ears on the b&w Philco are perked up for the latest update, the wall-sized blackboard is charted into rows and columns like a…