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  • ‘Sleeper’ items on Tuesday Council Agenda: Before the Pave, the Pipe

    Below is an excellent little analysis of a couple of items destined to be rubber stamped by our paving council this evening. This comes from a small local listserv*: On just about every City Council Agenda you’ll find ‘sleeper’ items — seemingly innocuous — but which have huge implications in future. Twenty-or forty-years from now,…

  • Madison Water Utility to Deliver Brown Water to Eastside Taps this Summer

    Tuesday evening, 5/25/2010, the Water Utility Board will be meeting: 4:30 PM WATER UTILITY BOARD 119 E. OLIN AVE. ROOMS A & B (pdf of agenda here) Though the topic is not on the agenda, eastsiders are concerned about the Utility’s plans to open the spigot on Well 8 this summer. This is the well that…

  • How Bad Planning Reduces IQ…and Pay

    Denser cities do better economically. Why? Because they bring people together, through proximity & design.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Paving As Disease Vector: Road Salt in Drinking Water –> Heart Disease

    More paving leads to more winter road salt application, leading to more salt in our waterways and drinking water. The prognosis for our health is not good.

  • Pick Up an Isthmus! Then read more about Jevons Paradox here….

    Moving toward a resilient, sustainable, green world will require a thoroughgoing ethic of conservation; emphasis on ethic.

  • Latest Edgewater Fun

    Hey Mike, Check out these two links. The video from Beverly Hills is amazing! Maybe posting these on your Blog? Not sure if you have seen www.edgewaterproject.com. Scary moment of the day… What is up with the weird way the Fontana store is closing, and no info on the plan for the building? The old…

  • Ho-Chunk to buy Union Corners?

    It is just a rumor, but my source is in the know with regard to all things real estate, commercial & residential. This has the potential to be a Very Good Thing. Note that I said potential. And no, it doesn’t necessarily mean casino, so calm down. Another aspect of the rumor is that there…