Everyone deserves a healthy environment
*** Many subsistence anglers fish at “the wall” above Lake Monona at downtown Madison’s Monona Terrace, known for its panfish bounty. A good number of them are from Milwaukee, Racine,…
*** “Celebrity, swag, people and cash” are poisoning Black anglers; WSJ promotes it as diversity! On Sunday the Wisconsin State Journal reached new heights as a PR arm of the…
I got the below email message today from Chris Hill, Senior Campaign Director, Our Wild America, Sierra Club (pictured above). Ms Hill shares some important context and history about why…
The picture says it all. The city says this is about social equity and creating more affordable housing. Yes, Madison desperately needs more affordable housing. But is this a healthy…
I was pleasantly surprised to read the editorial headline in today’ Wisconsin State Journal: A surface parking lot for Downtown lakefront? Really? It begins: “Madison’s beautiful lakefront in the heart…
This is a postscript to a previous post– “Will Madison ever say “Enough is Enough”? Probably not…” Buried in the Clean Lakes Alliance’s latest report “Renew the Blue” is a…
Dear WSJ: Today’s story by Dean Mosiman, “National design heavyweights want to help reimagine Lake Monona waterfront,” was notable for what it didn’t say and questions it didn’t ask. Mosiman…
If you think the concerns raised in yesterday’s post about skyrocketing Madison and Dane County growth (“Will Madison ever say enough is enough”?) are ill-informed or exaggerated, read what Wisconsin…
See Postcript to this article here. ********** Madison cannot “have its cake and eat it too,” as the saying goes. Or maybe I should say “we can have our cake…
“One Voice” government team tells Madison alders how to engage public on PFAS (The MLK Jr. Madison would prefer we forget, Part III) The mission of the Common Council President’s…
“Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility
“A time comes when silence is betrayal” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1967 “Beyond Vietnam-A Time
Dear DNR… I have known for some time about the deadline today on proposed standards WY-23-19, Surface Water Standards for PFOS and PFOA. But weeks ago, feeling demoralized
Today the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel published an article about the very unfortunate situation Madison resident Kenny Koeppler landed in by accident. In 1987, Koeppler
***** My dad grew up in downtown Madison during the 1930s, 40s and 50s in a home overlooking Lake Monona. He and his siblings fished and swam in the lake…