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  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • Dane County Towns Ass’n: Adjust Your Attitude!

    Dane County Towns Association aids & abets the dismantling of Dane County’s rural communities.

  • 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!

  • 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…

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