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Month: March 2010

  • Mosiman Promotes the Pave

    City Stenographer, Dean Mosiman, continues his front page promotion of Mayor Pave. Today it is hosannahs for, of all things, Mayor Pave’s paving.

  • Jesus Giveth, Jesus Bargaineth Away

    The co-dependent, abusive relationship between Jesus H. Obama and His flock continues….

  • A Pillar of Progressive Prairie Populism*

    Progressive Prairie Populism is back and has a face: Elizabeth Warren

  • Schadenfreude for Suburbia

    Academics & think tank fellows finally get it re: sprawl. But Mayor Pave & his sycophants on the council still don’t.

  • Mosiman, the Mayor’s Mandarin

    Mosiman continues to pump out corporate PR pieces on the front page of Madison’s daily, dying mainstream media outlet. This piece is all about creating an atmosphere of inevitability for the Edgewater project. The central message is: Ignore the little people; they have nothing to say. Yet another data point proving the long, slow, painful…

  • Edgewater: Mosiman Churns Out Hammes PR

    Once again, Dean Mosiman pumps out what could easily pass as a corporate PR piece straight out of Bob Dunn’s office. It doesn’t even rise to the level of stenographic journalism. Pitiful. Too bad our Plan Commission is packed with people who simply don’t understand the concept of appropriate scale. Then there is Herr Schumacher,…

  • Pay No Attention to the Trainwreck on the Left

    Reluctantly, very reluctantly, and after much pleading from the organizers, I agreed to show up to a meeting entitled, “What’s Up With The Left in Madison.” My reluctance was based in my long involvement with Progressive Dane from its inception (’93?) until a couple of years ago. For all of those years I tried to…

  • Dane County Towns Ass’n: Adjust Your Attitude!

    Dane County Towns Association aids & abets the dismantling of Dane County’s rural communities.

  • The Sustainability Mirage: A NYT Update

    Back in January I had an article published entitled “Madison’s Sustainability Mirage,” thesis of which was, all the groovey-green gizmos in the world won’t make a hill-of-beans difference as long as we keep siting “green buildings” in car-mandatory places. Looks like the smart gate-keepers at the NYT just figured it out, too.

  • Girls Rock! Motor Primitives @ Brink TONIGHT!

    Motor Primitives play tonight at the Brink Lounge…. The AM version of the details: Who: Motor Primitives What: MPs & other local bands play for a Fundraiser for Girls Rock Camp Where: Brink Lounge, 701 E. Washington Ave When: TONIGHT! Thursday, 3/18, 7 PM How a): BE THERE! Be There! BE THERE! How b): Vote for…