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I misread Rick’s blog. Soglin conceded to Dave Cieslewicz. Whump.com regrets the error.
The following is in error:
“History never repeats / I tell myself before I go to sleep“. Rick reports that once again, Paul Soglin is mayor of Madison, Wisconsin. In 1991 we were at war with Iraq, Bush was president, I was not married, [...]

What to do when someone starts using stats as a rhetorical weapon.

Let’s take the good news where we can find it. Tammy Baldwin, actual liberal, won her third term in the House, holding on to her seat in the Second District of Wisconsin, also known as Madison.
Before you dismiss that, it helps to remember that GOP incumbent and ex-newsanchor Scott Klug held that seat for several [...]

An old friend, fan, and fellow Madison expat (we are legion) has taken to weblogging in spades. Not only does she have a weblog, but a LiveJournal as well.

My old boss from UW Madison, Joel Rogers, and Richard Freeman propose a new approach to an old form of Union organizing. In the early days of American Labor, union membership was offered to any “wage worker”. You didn’t have to be an employee of a shop with a union contract. Union members may not [...]

My friend Rick Keir joins the Madison blogger cadre. Coolness. Rick, also known as Egon, works at DoIT, UW’s IT department. However, when I was thanking him at WisCon for his loan of some Airport Base Stations for the Internet lounge, I referered to DoIT by it’s former name: MACC, which bellied our old fart [...]

Tuesday night I was standing 10 feet away from Elvis Costello at his show in Saratoga. Damn. He played “A Man Out of Time” on an oversized acoustic guitar. He was bundled up for the cold and from a distance, you might had confused him with Bob Dylan. Well, until he started singing.
The counterman at [...]