Common Council Recap

The meeting went past 10:00! That has become so rare!The meeting started off with much confusion. Alders Sanborn and Bruer were not...

An exercise in Unfriendly!

I went to the Allied Drive "Move Forward, Not Out" festival last Saturday. I have to say, it was an exercise in "unfriendly"...

Common Council Recap

A three hour meeting took care of a 839 page packet of information for the meeting . . . not too bad. Here's...

What? What is the CDA doing?

Why does WARF - the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery - want the CDA to give them $300,000 for their $180M bond project? And...

Madison Buses – A System for Traditional Commuters

Last night, I attended a 4 hour public hearing about the proposed bus route changes. This post is late this morning because I...

CDA – No, you can’t see our WHEDA application.

During the approval of the Allied Drive project, one of the talking points of the CDA advocates was that they would be far more...

This is just silly.

Ok - so I heard about this from 3 or 4 people before it was in the newspaper and its been bugging me, but...

Council Recap: Jan. 22, 2008

Here's the run down of the council meeting that lasted til after 11:00 last night. Sorry, the links will have to wait until...

Allied.

Sigh. I don't think I can sit through another meeting on Allied, but I have one today and there's one more tomorrow. ...

The Week Ahead: Allied, Allied, Allied Again

Lots of double and triple booked people this week . . . and a whole lot more Allied Drive.MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2008(I just noticed,...

Common Council Recap: 1/8/2008

Snooze.In fact, I just realized that it was so boring that I didn't even preview the meeting. Ooops, sorry, I was too busy...

The Week Ahead . . . Allied, Allied, Allied. And Allied.

It's down to the wire on Allied Drive and there are at least 6 public meetings on it this week and a few more...