So a Forward Lookout spy has forwarded me a scan of a Mary Burke attack mailer…If it’s too small to see, you can click on it to make it big. The interesting thing about this piece is that it simply takes Mary Burke’s person experience and then says Michael Flores doesn’t have the same experience. [...]

The Wisconsin State Journal obviously. “We were surprised and disappointed,” Smalley said of finding the staff members’ names by searching a database of signatures at iverifytherecall.com. “We apologize to our readers for the lapse in judgment by several staff members.” Only one of the employees who signed a petition, chief photographer Steve Apps, is involved [...]

If a Republican was currently president would the Department of Justice be investigating this case and would the president have offered words of support like President Obama? Well… President Obama reacted to the death of Trayvon Martin in deeply personal terms, and his ability to thread the needle on such a highly charged issue won [...]

Seriously good column in the Daily Cardinal: “Safety tip” for spring break: don’t be a rapist This is why “safety tips” are a sham. Safety tips get trotted out as an example of how people who are assaulted deserved it or did it to themselves. Safety tips are used to justify sexual assault, as though [...]

In case you haven’t seen this, the Wisconsin State Journal* has a rather helpful voter guide up for the upcoming Spring elections. Check it out. Here is their description of the tool: The Wisconsin State Journal has compiled a comprehensive Dane County voter guide for the April 3 election. Our staff asked all candidates to [...]

There was a bit of tension at Madison’s Alcohol Licensing and Review Committee over some language used by an applicant… Dane101 has a summary (emphasis mine): Verveer asked about Wells’s statement in his application that My Buddies staff would plan music events and not use outside promoters. Wells volunteered that there wouldn’t be any hip [...]

Orchestra brawl: Fistfight in elite seats stuns symphony patrons Thursday night at Orchestra Hall in a ruckus the Chicago Symphony Orchestra officially described as “an incident” between “two patrons.” But shocked concert-goers and police called it a fist fight in one of the boxes — where the elite typically sit and expect a more refined [...]

The Dane County Board does a lot of work that directly impacts the environment in Dane County. However, it can be tough to wade through all this information. Happily, county board supervisor Al Matano has made a vote chart that covers these votes. And he was kind enough to pass it along to Forward Lookout, [...]

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