No chin wags with Republicans?
David BlaskaThey hold the purse strings! Paul Soglin’s bill of particulars: (In the 17-2 vote in August 2024 to approve the referendum, only current alders Isadore Knox Jr. and Barbara Harrington-McKinney…
Why is Brandi Grayson getting paid more than the governor of Wisconsin?
Are there no city audits? Paul Soglin, mayor of Madison for 22 years over three non-consecutive terms, has become the face of opposition to the City of Madison’s referendum seeking…
No knockouts in Fox v Kamala Harris
but plenty of cuts and bruises! The Bret Baier interview with Kamala Harris that flickered over our b&w Philco Wednesday evening 10-6-24 should have been narrated ringside by Don Dunphy.…
NY Times buries DEI
‘Nobody teaches Huck Finn anymore‘ It is over for diversity, equity, and inclusion. The New York Times, guilty of inflicting the 1619 Project on America three years ago, now admits that…
All the more reason to vote NO!
Thanks to $$$ windfall from State of WI! State shared revenue numbers are out and it appears the Madison metro school district will get a helluva lot more financial aid…
Madison public schools flush with money
Vote down both spending asks! Every three years, Madison’s education-industrial complex breaks out the begging bowls for still more money. Never mind that Madison’s public schools are some of the…
City of Madison did not lobby Republicans
for more state revenue! After filing an open records request, citizen watchdog Bonnie Roe finds that not once did the City of Madison lobby a single Republican legislator during the…
See me after school
Welcome to Lake Woebegone (Where everything ‘meets expectations’) Every so often, The Werkes attempts to be even-handed. (Why does it hurt when we do that?) But did anyone read Jill…
Going up the country
Baby don’t you wanna go! Every other early October, the Head Groundskeeper and the Lovely Lisa take a break from our increasingly ugly politics to put the top down, turn…
Madison mayor wants to gut Police Monitor/Oversight Board
Is this the Rapture? Even atheists get religion in a foxhole. The corollary is that nothing induces good government like an empty cash register. Her backside pressed up against the…