Good Meeting Tweet, Brings Bad Journalism
Apparently in today's Wisconsin, random "tweets" are now what is classified as news!
We have one of the most extreme budgets in our...
The Governors “tools” and the President’s “stimulus”.
Governor Walker has been in office for just a few months and they have been an eventful few months. Before he even took...
City Lobbying Law Trainings for Chamber of Commerce Members Only?
The Chamber of Commerce recently used the lobbying law to rally their troops. They also fought hard to make sure that as many of...
You Can’t Shame The Shameless!
In the midst of the whole "budget repair" bill fiasco and Governor Walkers re-igniting of the progressive movement in America, the republicans in wisconsin...
Cottage Grove – Where Democracy is a dirty word!
We recently held elections in Cottage Grove where Mike Mikalsen, lost his appointed position of Village Board President. The new Village President,...
PolitiFact
I was listening to WIBA-AM recently (Here and here)and the President-select of Cottage Grove was on Mitch Henck's show(I am not sure why...
The actual story – MGSD
Recently, the Keep scott walker in power campaign funded largely by out of state special interests, ran an ad where he used a...
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...
EEEE Round Up: Everything Else Except the Edgewater
That title sounds like it should be sung to the tune from "All Along the Watchtower" . . . but yes, there are other...
D-Day for Public Education
Today is the day that we have been discussing for weeks. Today is the day that the legislature starts discussing public school...
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...
Thursday Morning Links
As the kids start school today there will be lots of "Scott Walker has saved our schools" misinformation running around the right wing airwaves....