Developing Inroads

During the all-night City Council meeting to address all things Edgewater, I kept waiting for someone to say, "It's just a hotel, Gosh." Like Jon Heder channeling his Napoleon Dynamite character. I mean, if we could get Bob Harlan....

You would have thought the Hammes Company was trying to build a sweatshop given the pure odium of some of the opponents. I recall the phrase "an abomination to the eyes" by one of the opponents in reference to the proposal. I have seen The Abomination, and he looks nothing like the Edgewater, at least in the Stan Lee rendering. Full Story 

Madison Common Council Resolution 19141523: Restricting the Amount and Type of Snow that can Fall in the City of Madison Full Story 

The Dane County Lakes and Watersheds Commission received a grant in 2004 from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to design water resource management policies based on the different types of water bodies found in Dane County. The ensuing Phase I report was followed by a successful application for a Phase II grant to come up with a management plan for Dane County water quality. You may already be yawning, but I assure you, you should be paying attention. Full Story 

Last Tuesday, the Common Council adopted an extremely modified version of what began as the "vehicle miles traveled reduction resolution." Although it was the reason I was at the meeting — it was far from being the highlight. It isn't every night that you get to hear references to prostitutes, ox-driven carts, uncivilized people in idling cars on Verona road, the outer fringe of Madison and the Man in the Mirror (this was not actually a reference to the Michael Jackson song — it was Alder Schumacher calling out the mayor to reduce his own vehicle miles traveled by 25 percent. The mayor noted his name was indeed not on the resolution). Full Story