Did the Madison Union Strike Illegally?
This morning, on Facebook, I said that I was glad that the teachers would be ending their illegal strike tomorrow. But have Madison’s teachers been illegally striking? After further research and reflection, I don’t think they have been but I do think their actions came very close to a strike. A strict reading of the …
The Power to Tax is the Power to Govern
[B]etter luck next time kids. Your Aldermen, County Board members, state Assemblymen, state Senators, and Governor long ago gave up the right to actually govern this state. As a result, they’re powerless to help you now.
Progressively Regressive Child Care in Dane County
The Capital Times published an article on the shortage of child day care in Dane County. It’s not until the 11th paragraph that they finally reveal that the state government is to blame.
The primary reason it’s so hard to find care for infants is because of a state mandated caregiver-child ratio that requires …
Is Farming Work?
’Homesteaders’ try to produce all their own food – WSJ
Jodi and Brian Bubenzer describe themselves as ”homesteaders” who try to produce all their own food, even though nothing in their suburban childhoods prepared them for this existence. They knew nothing about farming until five years ago, when they bought a farm outside …
Welcoming Immigrants?
Initially, I was cheered by this story: Yard signs welcoming immigrants to Madison are starting to appear on the snow-piled landscape..
The signs say ”Immigrants Welcome” printed in English, Hmong and Spanish. The word ”Welcome” also is handwritten in six languages: English, Hmong, Spanish, Norwegian, German and Arabic, by members of immigrant families in …
Does the Math Add Up on Allied Drive?
I must be missing something, because I don’t understand how this makes any kind of sense:
Eventually, Olson said he put up $2 million and got financing from Anchor Bank and First Business Bank, spending an average $250,000 per property and about $130,000 in each to convert them. The project, he said, was a …
Too Much Snow
How’s the weather in Madison, WI?:
Including today’s snow, it is the 37th time in the last 67 days — since Dec. 1 — Madison has seen measurable snowfall, according to weather service data.
Madison’s normal winter snow total is about 49 inches, Kuhlman said, but the city is already well …
Banned for Your Own Good
The city of Madison believes that if it limits your freedom it can truly make you safer. Next up on their agenda: plastic water bottles.
The city of Madison, enamored of bans on everything from smoking to phosphorus fertilizers, may be setting its regulatory sights on another target — plastic.
In …
"Courageous" Protest
About two dozen Madison high school students courageously stood up for the right yesterday. They protested the Iraq war and President Bush in a city and county that have both overwhelmingly voted to impeach the president. What courage! What intestinal fortitude! What lack of concern for self and popularity!
Yawn. Give me a call when Madison …
The Danger of Eating Local
The problem with eating only locally grown food is that locally grown food may not always be available.
Jai Kellum stands — stunned yet smiling — in front of a channel of dirty water, as she describes the catastrophe that destroyed Avalanche Organic farm, which she owns with her partner, Joel Kellum.
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