UrbanThoreau Critiques: from Street to World and Back Again
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Madison Water Utility: Materially Incorrect
Madison Water Utility’s sloppy bookkeeping is undermining the public trust.
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1937: Krugman’s Victory Dance
As a Krugman fanboy, I’ve been getting a big kick out of his victory dances of late– rubbing it in the faces of the rightist ideologue economists, the austerians from the Austrian School of Economic Destruction. His latest end zone taunt is a blog post entitled, simply, 1937. (If it really were a football game, he’d have a…
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Like Water for Oil
Madison Water Utility continues it’s voodoo water economics.
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No Clarity in the Water
Dear Alders, I urge a reconsideration of Item 9 (30156) for the contract renewal for Thomas O. Heikkinen, General Manager of the Madison Water Utility. I strongly recommend, that any renewal of contract be provisional, lasting no longer than one year, with specific goals to be met for any further renewal. Please do not rubber stamp this appointment.…
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Tim Bawden and His Weltanschauung
My good friend, Tim Bawden, recently died. He was a treasure to all who love this state, all who treasure the local, the authentic, the sense of place. We got to be friends while grad students in Geography at University of Wisconsin-Madison. The friendship was cemented over beers at the Terrace. The stories are legion.…
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Needling the Power: Rummel’s High Road Strategy
Arrogant power wielders and their apologists…..
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