Cottage Grove/Monona Election results!
Thanks to the Herald-Independent!
The new Mayor of Monona and President of Cottage Grove:
Monona results:
Bob Miller has defeated Council President...
Short Week Monday Morning Round Up
Edgewater free round up . . . CITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MIASo, where is our Economic Development Commission, our Economic Development Director and city leadership?...
Wisconsin State Journal – Getting It Wrong for 100 Years!
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The Wisconsin State Journal published an editorial on March 9th, 1914 proclaiming "Send Pickles...
So How Much will Truman Olson Cost?
A reasonable question to be asked by a member of the Board of Estimates (City's finanace committee), what's the bottom line? The answer...
Buying Local . . . did you notice it passed?
How does it happen that when Ray Allen and Mayor Dave, the Common Sense Coalition and Progressive Dane, Brenda Konkel and Russ Frank (Madison...
Misplaced Priorities
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...
Republican Bully’s
H/T to Jay Bullock for catching this.
Last week UW-Madison's own professor of history, geography and environmental studies penned this op-ed in the NY...
Step Right Up…..
Wisconsin, the original headquarters of Ringling Brothers circus, which has brought us such acts as Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, Zip...
Why Teachers Need a Union – Part 2
I posted before some examples why teachers need a union.
From Idaho we get another case study!
A high school science teacher in Idaho is...
An Open Letter To Chris Mertes – The Sequel
A few years back, Sun Prairie Star Editor Chris Mertes wrote such a ridiculous editorial that I wrote him an open letter.
Mertes has outdone...
Let’s get them on the record!
Governor Walker came out last week with a union busting bill - Lots more information here. A couple of things have been overlooked...
Can We Apply ROI Standards to Highways Please?
If we can quantify the returns to the state for an $80 million investment in a sports arena, why isn't it possible, with "big data" technology, to insist on obtaining a similar metric before approving $1.3 billion of highway bonding in the Governor's proposed budget?