Tag: wheel tax
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The people had spoken vs. Satya’s wheel tax but who listened?
Vote Progressive Dane, get screwed It was what we thought it was. Madison is 10 to 1 opposed to the city’s $40 wheel tax, judging from the 2,000 pages [CORRECTED] of e-mails that flooded city hall from 250 individuals. Kudos to Chris Rickert of the WI State Journal for filing the open records request to…
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Take the bus, Gus; Don’t need to discuss much
Progressive Dane runs this city The late, great satirical magazine National Lampoon published an issue with one or the classic covers of all time. An endearing dog — a beagle, we think — looks worriedly to the side at a handgun pointed at its head. “Buy this magazine,” the headline read, “or the dog gets…
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No money for more Madison police but plenty for Common Council staff
UPDATE: Was there a roll call on approving the contract for the hiring of a Common Council chief of staff? No there was not. The voice vote in favor was declared unanimous. I am put in mind of my old seat mate on the Dane County Board, the late Bill Hitzemann, who farmed in the…