Tag: Madison Wisconsin
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Satya: Paving Dane (Already)
Did you see what Mayor Satya’s first big initiative out the gate was? Prepare for climate change? Stabilize Communities? BRT? Racial Justice? Affordable Housing? Better Stormwater Management? Anything in her campaign platform?* Nope. A great big highway expansion to serve Dane County Exurbanites: Tearing out a perfectly solid bridge that is less than twenty years into…
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Never Leave Home Without Your Geographer: Krugman, Gruber
In my daily dose of Krugman I really enjoyed this: China also derives big advantages from the fact that so much of the supply chain is already there. A former Apple executive explained: “You need a thousand rubber gaskets? That’s the factory next door. You need a million screws? That factory is a block away.”…
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Pleasant’s Wrecking Ball
Pleasant & Co. wish to demolish the spirit of State Street.
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We’re # 24!
24th sootiest air in the country that is (<-story filed under “Going Green”!). That, after two terms of the green mayor and three (& a half) of the green county executive, add in a population which prides itself on it’s green cred….Who needs Republicans when legions of dutifully voting Plug-in Prius drivers can do the dirty…
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Americans Ditching Deathmobiles in Droves
Americans scrapped more cars than they bought over the past 15 years — Wooooooh-Hooooo!!!!!
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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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Mayor Pave on the March: Massive Paving Budget Passes
Mayor Pave’s massive paving budget gets rubber stamped by his zombie council.
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The Haggis. Entered. Madison.
Enter The Haggis Rocked at the Brink Lounge on Veterans Day.
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MSN Mayor Paves His Way to a Higher State of Enlightenment*
Mayor Pave’s Ghost in the Growth Machine