by Dave Blaska | Jul 26, 2018 | Features
The Madison school board gets downright Dickensian! It was the first thing your Humble Bloggeur noted at Wednesday night’s ad hoc school board committee on educational resource officers, or EROs. Black-shirted school district security people facing the audience, arms...
by Dave Blaska | Jul 24, 2018 | Features
Madison Landmarks Commission Deadlocks on Removing Confederate Soldiers Grave Marker Hypocritical grandstanding’ Legendary Madison architect Kenton Peters put it to the chairman of the Landmarks Commission hard and often. “Are you doing this,” Peters said of Stu...
by Dave Blaska | Jul 23, 2018 | Features
Say it ain’t so, Stu Levitan So the professional city staff serving the Madison Landmarks Commission says to keep the monument at Confederate Rest where it has resided these past 112 years at Forest Lawn Cemetery. Preservation planner Amy Scanlan “finds that removing...
by Dave Blaska | Jul 19, 2018 | Features
Instead of the heckler’s veto, the anti-cop social justice warriors employed physical intimidation Wednesday at Madison Metro School District headquarters. “I hope you made it out safely,” one citizen e-mailed me after he fled McDaniel Auditorium as the chaos...
by Dave Blaska | May 9, 2018 | Features
He was one of a kind Our friend and colleague Dave Wiganowski died April 17 while on a flight to Laughlin, Nevada, of a heart attack at age 67. A celebration of his life will be held Saturday, June 2, at Wiggie’s tavern. Wiggie Wiggie cut a wide swath through Madison...
