If you thought the Lake Area Improvement Corporation's claim to have created 500 "potential" jobs was funny, put down your milk and read this: LAIC exec Dwaine Chapel provided the Lake County Commission with a letter dated June 12, 2011,…
Let the word games begin. At last week's Madison City Commission meeting, Lake Area Improvement Corporation exec Dwaine Chapel supported his request for $240,000 in taxpayer funding with the remarkable claim that the LAIC's Forward Madison project has created 500…
[Fair warning: I'm going to use some coarse language at the end of this post.] The Lake Area Improvement Corporation extends its begging for taxpayer handouts to Lake County taxpayers today. At 12:15 this afternoon (Tuesday), the Lake County Commission…
In the interest of public accountability, I am pleased to present the "budgets" submitted by the Madison Chamber of Commerce and the Lake Area Improvement Corporation at last night's Madison City Commission meeting. These documents come as the Chamber requests…
Lake Area Improvement Corporation executive director Dwaine Chapel appears before the Madison City Commission tonight to make the LAIC's annual request for taxpayer subsidy. The good news: this year's LAIC request is only $140,000, down from $240,000 last year. The…
My telecommuting neighbor Ashley Kenneth Allen has started a Facebook group aimed at promoting economic development here in Madison. Discussion (oh yeah, another purpose: to invite everyone to participate in public discussion of economic development) so far has revolved around…
I've run for the local school board more than once. I've lost more than once. And I've been told more than once by more than one person that I should run for a different office, like county commission. I'm not…
KJAM completes the trio of Madison City Commission candidate interviews with this chat with incumbent Dick Ericsson: Alas, I'm compelled to agree for now with the assessment of the Madville Times city commission poll: on the basis of these three…
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