Tag: Sensible Dane
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Wrong guy begins new year with right ideas
You won’t go wrong with this agenda! Hard to believe it is 2026. Still remember the wonderment at the clock turning over to a new millennium, well, 26 years ago. (Still can’t count out Y2K freezing our computers.) In any event, we begin Year 10 of Blaska Policy Werkes with an annual tradition: the Head…
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The Right ideas
from ‘the wrong guy.’ News photograph shows Milwaukee Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan leaving the federal courthouse after the third day of trial Wednesday. The injudicious judge is charged with helping an illegal alien escape. Shouldn’t the judge herself be leaving through the secret, backstairs passageway? You know you’re in trouble when a fellow judge testifies…
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Is this all there is?
Should we keep dancing? A writer we very much admire faulted my old boss, Tommy Thompson, a man of generous spirit, for championing Donald Trump, a single-minded settler of scores. The writer ascribed the seeming paradox to the former governor’s bid, at age 84 and out of office these 20 years, to remain relevant. Relevance.…
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We thought it was a good idea
to challenge Madison’s uni-party. But what do we know? A slew of elections looms on the calendar — city, county, and school boards galore, all non-partisan, supposedly. That won’t stop the Democratic Party of Dane County WI from endorsing candidates across the board. And funding them; and setting them up with web designers, campaign lit…