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Don’t Take Your Guns To Town…

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall...

The Craziness in District 46!

Wisconsin's District 46, has been very ably represented by Sun Prairie Democrat Gary Hebl. Since Representative Hebl has the market cornered on...

Maniaci’s Open Records Request

A few random thoughts on Maniaci's recent open records request to "determine who ratted her out to the press", in regards to her health-care...

Think Globally but Pay Attention Locally…

The Village of Cottage Grove meeting this week was very telling of four members of the board. This item: e. Ad Hoc...

I Can’t Tell You Why

The Monona Grove School District recently held held their annual meeting. Typically these are sparsely attended and uneventful. This...

Some feedback to Metro on future farecards

The RFP for updated farecard systems in Madison is moving forward. Here are some suggestions on how to write the RFP so that we can unleash the full talent of our community and the world in making it better.

The (Public Schools) Profit Motive

We have brought you the story before that the current round of "education reform" is a myth, that its just a ruse to try...

Sundays Community Meeting

Hope to see everyone Sunday, March 27, 3-4:30 Monona Grove High School Commons 4400 Monona Drive, Monona How did we get here? What do we anticipate with the...

Kelly Albrecht in the 63rd!

If you read Forwardlookout, you know that we have a serious problem in Madison and elsewhere taking care of the needy. You also...

The Plundering of Village(Cottage Grove)Government!

“Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.” – Thomas...

Open Records request findings…

I recently did an open records request from our Village Board and found a couple very interesting documents that I felt needed to be...

Forward Lookout, beyond the blog

This is a little bit of a geeky post about Forward Lookout and Citizen Media, but it also includes a link to an audio recording of most of the July meeting of the Economic Development Commission. So, if either of those sound interesting, read on...