Today is election day and its incredibly important that we show up in force today to VOTE! I Highly recommend: 1. Ed Fallone for Supreme Court Justice! This one is very important! 2. Rhonda Lanford for Circuit Court Judge! 3. Vote YES on Same Day registration! 4. Tony Evers for State Superintendent! 5. In Cottage [...]

So the people in the village who so adamantly oppose the library, will not make a fool of themselves when they try and write letters to the editor! Goodbye Fiscal Responsibility Destination Imagination (DI) is an excellent after-school program that provides educational programs for students. Participants learn patience, flexibility, persistence, ethics, respect for others and [...]

And he wants as much of your taxpayer money as he can get his hands on. If you live in Sun Prairie or have driven through you would have probably seen a sign with the unique name. Mr. Hutkowski(Mr. H) is currently running. Not a typo as Mr. Hutkowski is running for every job he [...]

Today is primary election day in Wisconsin, so please go vote. I recommend Heidi Wegleitner and Carl Chenoweth. Unfortunately there are not primaries(or even opponents) for too many races. When going to the polls in Dane County, I wanted to point out a couple things that may have been missed. 1. The conservatives on the [...]

Especially if your in Verona, WI! Local Verona small business Tuvalu Coffeehouse has come under some scrutiny(both positive and negative) for allowing people to sign their recall Walker/Kleefisch petitions inside the establishment. Instead of addressing every single response personally it was much easier for owner Erika Hotchkiss to respond to everyone Via a LTE in [...]

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 [...]

The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then get elected and prove it. P.J. O’ROURKE, Holidays in Hell The Village Board in Cottage Grove has been making some news lately, besides the probable privatizing of our Emergency Medical Services. There is also the ongoing discussions between the Village and town of [...]

“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to P. S. du Pont de Nemours, April 24, 1816 I wrote recently about Lobbyist Paula Severson\'s end run around democracy to claim a seat on the Cottage Grove [...]

I attended my first ever candidate announcement the other day when Vicky Selkowe declared her candidacy for the 48th assembly district, replacing Joe Parisi. Even though I am not in the district, I wanted to see what a “formal announcement” was all about. Vicky gave a very good speech, she stressed two aspects that were [...]

Thanks to the Herald-Independent! The new Mayor of Monona and President of Cottage Grove: Monona results: Bob Miller has defeated Council President Jeffrey Wiswell, Sr. for Mayor of Monona, 2393 – 1361, according to unofficial results. Doug Wood (2351), Jim Busse (2056) and Chad Speight (2006) won seats on the city council, while incumbent Mike [...]

I recently did an open records request from our Village Board and found a couple very interesting documents that I felt needed to be shared. paulashouse It seems that Village Trustee and registered lobbyist Paula Severson actually “owns” the firehouse. It is nice to know that will be coming off the tax roll next year [...]