Recently, Monona Grove Elementary teacher Jeff Knudson was the "star" of an ad for Scott Walker. Mr. Knutson looked directly into the camera and made this claim: We figured if we didn’t get laid off, our class sizes would become unmanageable, but that didn’t happen.” That of course was the opposite of the truth, as [...]
The last time there was an incident, at the New Towne Pub the Madison police department blamed it on the now closed R Place. Well looks like they there was another incidence at the New Towne Pub: A Middleton woman was arrested Thursday night for an incident earlier this month in which she allegedly drove her [...]
With Apologies to Bill Maher, I thought I would steal his famous segment. New Rule: You can’t advocated slashing necessary services, especially if you have a column and pretend to be a journalist, and you do NOT know what those services do. A group of Dane County introduced a \"wheel tax\" to help raise money [...]
So there were some shots fired pretty close to where I live a little while ago: On 9/24/2011, at 1:02am, the Madison Police Department investigated numerous shots fired in the parking lot of the Highland Gates Retail Center located in the 700 block of S. Gammon Rd. There may have been some type of disturbance [...]
So they can see my hip-hop recommendations! In honor of the following reporting on Twitter by fellow Forward Lookout writer Brenda Konkel (September 20th, 2011), please find below a screen capture of my current hip hop play list which contains songs that I would highly recommend you give a listen to… 1 @brendakonkel 5 uniformed [...]
To whomever this was: Madison Police officers tracked down and arrested two suspects early Saturday morning following a battery and robbery in the downtown area. A 26-year old bicyclist was peddling westbound on W. Gorham St. when she came upon two suspects kicking a downed man in the head. She observed five to six blows [...]
While I certainly think that some of the criminal justice system is a bit harsh, and in this age of austerity, we might just not have the money to prosecute a lot of criminal cases…but…well… Channel3000 reports: Madison Reclassifies Some Crimes As Municipal Violations The Madison Common Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to change certain [...]
As a follow up to this previous blog entry: Missing Person Beau Butschke, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s office has reported the sad news that Beau Butschke’s body was found. The Wisconsin State Journal has the details: Missing man’s body found in Jefferson County storage locker; cops call it homicide
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 [...]
Beau Butschke has not been seen or heard from since Thursday July 14th evening. Any one with info should call the Jefferson County Sheriff’s office, the number is 1-920- 674-8697 Joe Mech is the detective on the case. More info in the main post.
Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.
---George Mason