The Madison School Board race has been interesting to say the least. For those of you scoring at home, three candidates declared their candidacy for Seat #5, Sarah Manski, TJ Mertz and Ananda Mirilli. Having three candidates meant that a primary was triggered to narrow the candidates on the April ballot to two. On primary [...]
Summer 2012, the Wisconsin republicans had the world by the balls. They had control over the State Assembly, the State Senate, the Governor and the Supreme Court. They were virtually untouchable(except for a recall). Then something happened, they tried to Govern. We all know the mess of ACT 10 and the turmoil and lawsuits that [...]
Getting tired of the Wisconsin State Journal giving you a watered down version of the news and basically no coverage of the damage that the republicans have done to our state under the Fitzwalkerstan regime? Then head to the Barrymore tonight for a double feature! “United States of ALEC” The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) [...]
It is Board of Education candidate forum season and everyone is getting into the act (full list at the bottom). That includes Sustain Dane and the Isthmus, who are co-sponsoring a forum. All good, except they have chosen Dave Cieslewicz as one of the moderators and today our ex-Mayor endorsed two of the candidates. Nice [...]
Hydrite Chemical is a company that has a location in Cottage Grove that many people are not even aware exists. With the troubling smell and the numerous spills coming from this facility, that is changing. Tonight there is a meeting at Flynn Hall at 5PM to discuss the issuing of a permit extension of their [...]
To: Chris Chocola, Club for Growth The Honorable Jim DeMint, junior Senator from the Great State of South Carolina It is with great disappointment that we have learned of the efforts of some conservatives on the national level to try to dictate to Wisconsin conservatives their choice for the United States Senate seat being vacated [...]
Wednesday’s “Moving Bicycling Forward in Madison” Event was packed with supporters of better bicycling infrastructure for Madison. On the surface, Mayor Soglin hit the right notes, suggesting we need to take a holistic approach and create a comprehensive plan. Soglin also spoke about the fact that going forward, any increase in revenue is going to be [...]
Wisconsin, the original headquarters of Ringling Brothers circus, which has brought us such acts as Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, Zip the Pinhead, The Doll Family, and various sword swallowers, tiger tamers, acrobats, magic shows, etc… Now in the same tradition, we have the Creation lady at the Dane County Fair. Just down from the [...]
I went to the District 48 candidate forum at Talula tonight. I arrived late and was only able to see the last half hour so I wont go in to too much detail but I did have some thoughts. * Everyone there(including the audience which was a packed house) are better than 505 of the [...]
There is an incredible amount of fake outrage on the right regarding Anthony Weiner, from head nerd Reince Priebus on down. The Republicans are very upset kinda. If only Weiner had tried to to suppress minority votes, then Priebus would love him. Instead Congressman Anthony Weiner was flagged for inappropriate tweets! This caused a stir [...]
I thought this was too important not to pas on. Madison magazine recently posted a list of Willy Street restaurants that will be affected by the construction. Its a great run down of restaurants that not only are great restaurants but also need to be visited this summer, even if the construction is a pain [...]
