This county board will not be bullied
David BlaskaThey may advise but not consent! In repudiating the nomination of Shelia Stubbs for Human Services director, Dane County supervisors announced they will not be played the race card. They…
Spring time in Madison, the fragile flowers are in bloom
The equity majors are in high dudgeon! Studying — some of them, anyway — at the great University of Wisconsin-Madison campus are 44,640 students. Of those, 9,824 are graduate students,…
America paralyzed by writers’ strike?
There’s enough good stuff that we missed! We get the impression that John Nichols and his comrades at The Nation (we really do love you, John!) won’t be satisfied until…
Good morning, class. Snap quiz!
Who else asks the RIGHT questions? Are you getting the notion that the human services appointment battle is more about county board supervisors versus Dane County Executive Joe Parisi than…
It’s DEI or die! for campus free speech
Worse than the Joe McCarthy era! What did that Stanford University administrator do when asked to restore order as law students disrupted an invited speaker? Instead of quelling the mob,…
The black bear is in town!
After being spotted in Mt. Horeb A black bear was spotted Friday 04-28-23 on the east side of Mt. Horeb, just north of the cemetery on WI Hwy 78. It…
The wages of Woke just got garnished
Has the P.C. fever broken? We may be wrong. (Would not be the first time.) But something feels very different about the Shelia Stubbs controversy, contretemps, kerfuffle, whatever. We may…
Joe Parisi: withdraw this nomination!
This nominee is an insult(eress)! Takes considerable chutzpah to race bait a person with black skin. But when you’re as entitled as Shelia Stubbs, it’s another day at the office. …
Maybe she needs the money
Is Shelia Stubbs a triple dipper? By any standard, running Dane County’s sprawling Human Services Department is a full-time+ job. It would tax Tommy Thompson, the most workaholic executive we’ve…
We can blow this on-side kick if we try!
Is Brandon Bostick a free agent? What is that infernal shouting we’re hearing on the Stately Manor’s monaural, b&w Philco? Looks like some old guy shaking his fist at the…