Burt Elliott is in trouble. The Brown County Democrat wants to return to the Legislature to serve District 3. Unfortunately, he lives in District 2. Elliott said at a Brown County forum on September 27 that while he has a…
Posts tagged as “Madison”
One of my true loves has died, and I could not save her. Gale Pifer reports that DeLon Mork and Randy Schaefer will demolish the old Masonic Temple in the heart of Madison sometime after September 20. They bought it…
The Richard Benda Memorial Apartment Complex holds an open house today in Madison to celebrate the vital role crony capitalism plays in meeting market needs. Jane Utecht's report on the tax-increment-financed Lake Area Townhomes indicates there is great demand for…
Madison's new thrift store, now christened the Encore Family Store, is scheduled to open in November. Store organizers have scheduled donation drives to collect merchandise for the store for Aug. 16, Sept. 6 and Sept. 13 from 9 a.m. to…
Chuck Clement finds a couple of honyockers preaching on the bypass in Madison. The basic gist of their bad theology: remarried divorcees are adulterers, women should shut up, and salvation depends on your action, not God's: Two men who are…
I've heard this bit of Madison lore in a couple of permutations. Back in the 1960s, a contractor on a new project was planning to pay his workers wages higher than the local going rate. One of the city fathers…
My teetotaling heart raps double-quick at Jane Utecht's report that Madison will soon have one less place to get alcohol. (And Gaia be praised, it's not being replaced with a smut shop). Main Street's new addiction: chocolate! ...the Trojan Tap…
Want to learn the facts about Medicare? Well, you can't count on Mike Rounds to tell the truth about the most popular health insurance program in America. Better go see Rick Weiland, who's holding a town hall forum Friday on…