Common Council Organizational Committee – A preview of Issue to Come to Council

The CCOC committee is all alders, so discussions here are typically a preview of things to come. Topics on the agenda include residency,...

Illegal Meeting Regarding The Future of the Downtown Alcohol Density Plan?

So intrigued by a very, very vague agenda, I attended the meeting. It just got more and more confusing as the meeting went...

Here We Go Again, Monday Morning Round Up

Here's what I have this slippery Monday morning . . . MAYOR DAVE IN TROUBLE?Wow. Mayor Dave is the talk of the town....

November 3 City Recap – The (Almost Complete) "Short" Version

I have 6.5 hours of notes, and not enough time to use them! Here's a shorter version of what happened. I have...

Common Council Recap – It didn’t all fit in one post Again! (And I’m...

A shorter, meeting, still went til 11:23.GETTING STARTEDStarted late as usual. Meeting started at 6:40. There's about 30 members of...

(Late) Poison Ivy Common Council Recap

No, not talking about Thuy, but she did get in a "was Obama born in this country?" type comment, a bike comment and noted...

Continued Round Up for this Week

Less regurgitation of things you should know, more attitude! :)BIGOTED FLASHBACKAs my co-worker and friend Megin McDonell says on my Facebook page "hello?...

County Board Budget Moving Forward (Final)

Conservation fund cut to $1M, Legacy Fund cut to $500,000, Rhythm & Booms cut, THRIVE cut, FSAT funded, County to pay for burials for...

Council Recap – Banning Sales of Small Amounts of Alcohol (#41)

The final piece of the Common Council recap from Tuesday . . . banning liquor sold in small quantities.First, here's what would be banned...

Full Circle

One of my first posts on this site was in regards to a column written by Chris Rickert. In the column...

Sad, Sorry State of Lobbying Reports

My visit to the clerks office yesterday was . . . depressing. I wish the city attorney would do his job, so the...

Monday Morning Round Up

Spinfest, ALRC favoritism - past and present, Mayor goes all out for the Edgewater and Mayor changing rules on Absent Without Pay leave and...