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  • CARPC Comes Through for Clean Water

    Capitol Area Regional Plan Commission really came through for clean water in Dane County. (See message below from Stefi Harris.) Many thanks to Western Dane County Coalition for Smart Growth & Environment and CRANES for all of their advocacy & research on this. And it even looks like Falk even kind of stuck her neck…

  • 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.

  • Schadenfreude for Suburbia

    Academics & think tank fellows finally get it re: sprawl. But Mayor Pave & his sycophants on the council still don’t.

  • 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…

  • Edgewater: Mosiman Churns Out Hammes PR

    Once again, Dean Mosiman pumps out what could easily pass as a corporate PR piece straight out of Bob Dunn’s office. It doesn’t even rise to the level of stenographic journalism. Pitiful. Too bad our Plan Commission is packed with people who simply don’t understand the concept of appropriate scale. Then there is Herr Schumacher,…

  • The Sustainability Mirage: A NYT Update

    Back in January I had an article published entitled “Madison’s Sustainability Mirage,” thesis of which was, all the groovey-green gizmos in the world won’t make a hill-of-beans difference as long as we keep siting “green buildings” in car-mandatory places. Looks like the smart gate-keepers at the NYT just figured it out, too.

  • Q: What’s the Greatest Threat to the Planet?

    A: http://www.youtube.com/user/1standMain#p/u/1/VGJt_YXIoJI …. a fun & lighthearted take on a serious topic thanks to our friends over at the Congress for New Urbanism. Robbie Webber exasperatedly declared that they captured her entire 50 minute class talk on the Environment & Urbanism in 3 minutes! D’Oh!

  • 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…

  • Edgewater: Mayor Pave v. Historic Neighborhoods

    Mayor Pave aims to gut historic preservation law.

  • Cul-de-sac Syndrome

    Car dependent places crashed, while car-optional places held steady during the Great Recession.

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