Here is My Letter to The Editor regarding my observations from collecting signatures. Congratulations to everyone who collected signatures for the recall effort of Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch (and all four republican senators) whether you collected 1 or 1500 or anywhere in between. Thank you! I recently spent a Saturday morning collecting signatures for [...]
Recently, the Cottage Grove village board passed a resolution calling for civil public discourse. Their resolution no. 2011-07, A Resolution Promoting Civil Public Discourse. One line of this resolution is Whereas, the principle of civility is the foundation of this republic and the rule of law: … While we are not a republic, civility is [...]
The Village/Town of Cottage Grove merger talks merger talks have been put on hold. I have written before on the merger talks, here and here. After having spent thousands of dollars on studies and brought in speakers telling us why the Verona city/town merger failed, things have been put on hold because of a He [...]
This should be a given, but here goes. New Rule – Staff from really bad politicians make really bad politicians! While there are too many examples to name (Robin Vos and Cottage Grove’s own ex-appointed president being a couple. Sun Prairie is also finding that out with Mayor John Murray who was formerly paul ryan [...]
Is a great idea to strive for, but personally, if I had to pick, I would prefer INFORMED public discourse. Tonight, at the Village of Cottage Grove\'s 11/21/11 meeting, the Village Board will be voting on Resolution NO. 2011-07 “A Resolution Promoting Civil Public Discourse“, which is a very honorable goal to have, especially coming [...]
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 [...]
The Monona Grove School District recently held held their annual meeting. Typically these are sparsely attended and uneventful. This years was slightly different. It started out with a rundown of the financial situation of the MGSD and while it is not “doom and gloom”(the mill rate is slightly decreasing), its close(thanks to the republicans of [...]
The results were in this summer with the democrats flipping two seats in the Senate recalls. While the republicans lost two seats, they still maintained a slight 17-16 majority. Thus both sides declared “victory”. In case your scoring at home and want to see who won exactly( FYI – it was the people of Wisconsin) [...]
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My LTE made the Cap Times website, in a slightly edited version. Here is the full letter(with links): Now that school has resumed, it is time for a summer refresher course. While many people were enjoying their summer vacation, the Governors “budget repair” bill went into effect. Which means that everyone who works in our [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
