Council First Budget Discussion

People were supposed to talk about their priorities, of course they didn't, they never do. Instead, this is a briefing by the comptroller...

Catching Up with the Round Up

Many, many miscellaneous thoughts on things that happened last week - very, very busy during a time when most people are on vacation.DID YOU...

Long Overdue Weekly Round Up

I did a bad job filling in for the Cap Times this week! The Edgewater, capital budget grades, Southwest meeting, Danisco BOE discussion...

Blaska Out of Touch?

So, I went to the meeting about the "code of conduct" on the SW side expecting people to rail against "those people" on Section...

Edgewater – Come to Jesus Meeting

No matter how many jokes and excuses Verveer made, this is just not the right place to hold an official City of Madison meeting....

Edgewater – Review Process

This is the list of things Brad Murphy explained were necessary for approval of the Edgewater Building. This is one part of a several...

Edgewater – Hammes Presentation

This is part of a post that starts here that is a recap of the neighborhood meeting held about the Edgewater project. HAMMES GROUP...

Edgewater – The Neighborhood Presentation

This post is part 3 of a series that starts here, and it will be much shorter because the neighborhood was given less time,...

Grading the Capital Budget Requests

Who passed? Who failed? Who are the brown-nosers (A+), those who did what they had to do to get by, and those who...

End of the Week Round Up

Now taking suggestions for a better title for these random comments on the things going on in Madison. Today, the post includes Soglin/Skidmore...

Edgewater . . . the complications begin . . .

Those of us closer to the project have realized the swampy set of complicated issues that the Edgewater needs to wade through . ....

Wednesday Round Up

Many more issues to comment on today, Hippie Christmas, lobbying complaints, alternative Edgewater proposal thoughts, why Google came to Madison, a little jab at...