It's election day in Madison! If you haven't decided yet, neighbors, I've posted five reasons you should cast one of your school board votes for me on my campaign website. Read that list. Watch the forum videos the way you'd…
Posts published in April 2011
Pat Powers isn't blogging anymore, but he still sends me more interesting news than than his old stomping grounds. Powers e-mails a press release from Secretary of State Gant announcing that Barb Lindberg of the Rapid City Tea Party (well,…
As the federal government shutdown loomed and then was averted, an offensive little meme creeped into my Facebook queue: the "Ensuring Pay for Our Military Act of 2011." Not offensive is the idea that Washington politics ought not interfere with…
Whoo-hoo! 23 hours until the polls open in Madison for our school board election! What are voters thinking about the five candidates? Have their preferences changed since last month? Let's find out! Last week I posted a poll asking "Who…
I guess you can't blame a big hedge fund wheeler dealer for not having a seismograph. But PowertechExposed.com, a Colorado website doing more to protect the Black Hills from the predations of irresponsible uranium mining than our own narrowly profit-minded…
One of the Leadership Madison groups has released results and recommendations from its fall 2010 Buy Local survey—well, sort of. We get the press-filtered version from LAIC hired writer Emmeline Elliott, but when I check the Leadership Madison webpage, I…
A few weeks ago, Shelli Gust helped me explain how the proposed update of Lake County's zoning ordinance actually increased land-use options. But 9.4% of the county electorate was more interested in poking fingers in various commissioners' eyes than in…
Brands are like bell-bottoms: they go out of style fast. The University of South Dakota has decided its "U" brand is too generic for pitches outside South Dakota. They're dumping this: ...and applying to trademark this: ...which looks like a…