Learning all the wrong lessons
David Blaskain all the wrong places. Let’s not get carried away. Democrats won three Democrat strongholds Tuesday night 11-4-25: New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City. Let the church bells ring!…
Can public safety advocates find their voice
to speak up for the sheriff’s budget? Dane County supervisors will entertain public comment tonight beginning at 6 p.m. on next year’s annual budget, which would cut 28 positions from…
‘I’m finding more victims every day’
a cry of conscience from a parent addressed to Madison’s public schools. We devote this blog to Mr. Ray Mendez, parent of a Madison public school student to Superintendent Joe…
Republicans helping our kids learn
by banning smartphones in the classroom! No thanks to Assembly Democrats Gee Wally, even Tony Evers signed it. Just today! A bill to ban smartphones during school hours. Something Madison’s…
Let’s make more political points!
How else can we hold Jill Underly accountable? Can’t help but imagine The Capital Times, more progressive than Zohran Mamdani in a keffiyah, wishes it had exposed Republican wrong-doing instead…
Madison’s public schools are progressive
expensive and disappointing. Everything progressives believe about K-12 education is wrong. It’s minority students who suffer most. So says The Atlantic magazine — hardly a MAGA outlet. “America is Sliding…
Left wing laments the East Wing
Which was (once) attached to the White House. The Dan Quayle Reading Room here at Stately Blaska Manor holds a most wonderful coffee table book, The White House; an illustrated…
The party of Defund the Police
and making excuses for crime. As Dane County goes, so goes the Democratic party of Wisconsin. Democrats in every one of the other 71 counties — even Milwaukee — live…
This county board is for them, not us
Progressives protect their own! When a county committee voted to strip the sheriff of 28 deputy positions, (first reported here) it wasn’t to alleviate a $31 million budget deficit. No,…
Who speaks for the hard-working taxpayer
in Madison-area local government? Sheriff Kalvin Barrett warns that he will not be able to run the new county jail, currently under construction, if the Dane County Board slashes 28…