Category: Madison Politics
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Mermaid Cafè, a Crown Jewel of the Eastside; Nay, of Madison; Better Yet, of Wisconsin
Mermaid Cafè’s supreme sandwiches & otherworldly espresso.
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Flat Flyover Country…INDEED! And How Bicycling Adds Juice to Any Economy
Flyover country ain’t so flat after all. And those wacky cyclist characters provide the turbo charge to any economic engine.
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Highway Bloatitecture: A Cancer on the City Center
What do Brussels, Madison, Atlanta, and Little Rock have in common? Highway-scaped Bloatitecture in the middle of the city.
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Mayor Pave Hogwild For Highways
Mayor Pave’s continuing pursuit pork and a more perfect Schaumburg.
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Mayor Pave: Keeping up with the Schaumburgs
Yet another auto-centric pave over of our countryside.
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Sanitary Sprawl
Madison continues its subsidization of outer-ring aldermanic districts; this time via extravagant sewerage projects.
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Ivey Misses the Air for the Exhaust
Ivey looks on the dark side for a bright, promising proposal to reduce car traffic in Madison
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Mayor Pave Woos the Cul-de-Sacs
Cap Times reporter Kristin Czubkowski reports on zombie pol Mayor Pave’s reincarnation as Paul Soglin.
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Bike Zeitgeist: Being the Engine, Pedaling Revolution
GM just went bust. The Highway “Trust” Fund went bust a few months ago. The repo man is busy, busy, busy. No better time than today to introduce two great works that celebrate a better way: Pedaling Revolution: How Cyclists Are Changing American Cities a book by Jeff Mapes (with a strong Madison connection; more…
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Growth Machine’s Filthy Water Imperils Mayor Pave’s Growth Machine
The contamination at this proposed well site on Madison’s far southeast side has been known for a long, long time. Staff is portrayed as astute, even heroic, in “their” (latter day) decision to nix the well at this contaminated site. Nothing could be further from the truth. It was the brave stand made by a…