Saturday, September 28, 2024

The Center for Black Excellence and Culture, West Badger Road, Madison WI (September 2024 construction site visit)

 
Rendering and vicinity mapMadison Plan Commission






Photos by Retiring Guy



Letter of intent


Baker's Place, East Washington Avenue, Madison WI (September 2024 construction site visit)

 

Photos by Retiring Guy



Renderings:  The Neutral Project







Other East Washington posts:
2024
Baker's Place.  (5/6)

2023
The Continental.  (7/25)

2022

2021
The Valor.  (10/19)
800 block project revisited:  Love notes to the temporarily shuttered Sylvee.  (2/14)

2020
The Arden.  (12/18)

2019
Hotel Indigo.  (12/2)
NIMBY chronicles.  (11/12)

2018





Towering Isthmus: Bus terminal and student housing under construction on Lake Street in Madison WI (September 2024 site visit)

 
Starting to take shape.  Long way to go yet.

Photos by Retiring Guy



Rendering:  Wisconsin State Journal, 11/13/2023

Other Towering Isthmus posts:
2024
Atmosphere Apartments.  (August 2024 construction site visit).  8/21)
Atmosphere Apartments. (June 2024 construction site visit),  (6/17)
East Wilson Street luxury housing development (June 2024 construction site visit)

2023
Verve Living. (1/10)

2022


2017


2014
Cranes at dusk.  (12/11)


Why? Because demented Donald Trump cares about only one thing: himself

 
HeadlineMilwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9/27/2024
"Had any candidate asked, the answer would have been no. We simply can't accommodate it. We are stretched across seven days and still can't get everything in. To add one more thing at the eleventh hour would not have been fair to the exhibitors and attendees," Behnke said. "Can you imagine the attendees stuck in traffic on the Beltline or international (guests) trying to arrive at the airport and the airport is shut down for security purposes? Why would you disrupt something so special to the people who attend it?"  [emphasis added]

Anyone who has been anywhere near the Alliant Energy Center during World Dairy Expo understands that this request is off-the-charts wacko,  Just plain delusional.


Related posts:
Dear Jesse McKinley:  Don’t be fooled, the only person Trump loves is himself.  Best, Retiring Guy .  (9/26/2024)

GET ME REWRITE: GOP WIsconsin State Assembly elections committee chair urges lying Tom Tiffany to stop clutching his pearls

 
Top headline:  Wisconsin Public Radio, 9/27/2024
Bottom headline:  Iron Mountain Daily News, 9/27/2024

There are guardrails, you hysterial idiot.
Republican state Rep. Scott Krug made the statement after Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany called for an investigation and questioned whether the clerk’s office can be trusted. 
On Monday, the Madison City Clerk’s office issued a statement saying a “data processing error” led to duplicate absentee ballots being sent to around 2,000 voters in the city. It said affected voters were being contacted and told to destroy their duplicate ballots. The city’s statement also said “because the duplicate ballots have identical barcodes, in the unlikely event that a voter submits two absentee ballots, only one can be counted.” [emphasis added]

More on Wisconsin state embarrassmnt Tom Tiffany:
July-December 2024
 
January-June 2024
The company Freedom Caucus Crazy Tom Tiffany keeps  (Marjorie Taylor Greene edition).  (6/11)

October 2023

September 2023
How looney is Wisconsin embarrassment and gymnophobe Tom Tiffany?  He wants to waste U.S. Department of Justice resources on an investigation of Madison's Naked Bike Ride! (9/22)

August 2023

July 2023

GET ME REWRITE: Walgreen's joins the GOP War on Women in Missouri

 
ScreengrabKansas City Star, 9/28/2024
Natasha Ahmed’s patient had miscarried her pregnancy and was bleeding. Using an ultrasound, Ahmed, an obstetrician-gynecologist based on the Kansas side of the metro, judged that some tissue remained in the woman’s uterus. 
They talked through her medical treatment options and together decided on a course of misoprostol, a drug commonly used for miscarriage management, to expel the remaining tissue.  
Ahmed sent a prescription to a Walgreens pharmacy across the state line, in Grandview, and wrapped up her Monday. 
The next morning she found a fax response with a message from an employee at the store: “Under Missouri law medication abortion is now illegal. Please advise patient to fill across Kansas border.”  [emphasis added]
 
Related posts:
September 2024
Amber Nicole Thurman, another casualty in the GOP War on Women. (9/16)

August 2024What happens when GOP state legislatures pass laws restricting reproductive rights.  (8/12)
Chickenman Project 2025 leader Kevin Roberts on in vitro fertilization:  He would call it another agenda item of the "Party of Destruction".  (8/8)

July 2024

U.S. 40 Cross Section of the United States of America (Chapter 36: Boonville)

 
That was then (1953).  


















From chapter 36:
Boonville, Missouri, is described in a pamphlet issued by the Chamber of Commerce as being "where the Boonslick road ended and the Santa Fe trail began."  Though the complete accuracy of both these statements may be questioned, the fact remains that Boonville is a highly interesting town.
This is now.  Construction of Thespian Hall began in 1855.

Google Maps

Boonville is 148 miles west of St. Louis and 103 miles east of Kansas City.  When George R. Stewart visited Boonville in early 1950s, the city had a population of 6,700. Its current population is 7,964, down from a peak of  8,319 in 2010.   Boonville is the seat of Cooper County, where the population peaked at 22,707 in 1890.  It now has 17,103 residents, most of the Trumpy.
 



Photo by Retiring Guy: 1952 Rand McNally Road Atlas (arrow added)



Related post:
Chapter 1:  Beginnings.  (7/19/2024)
Chapter 2:  Coastal Plain.  (7/20/2024)
Chapter 5.  Six-Lane Highway.  (8/4/2024)
Chapter 6.  Bush River.  (8/5/2024)
Chapter 7:  Baltimore rows.  (8/6/2024)
Chapter 8:  Ellicott City.  (8/7/2024)
Chapter 9.  Frederick.  (8/8/2024)
Chapter 11.  Horrible example.  (8/16/2024)
Chapter 12.  Mount Prospect.  (8/17/2024)
Chapter 13:  Ridge and Valley.  (8/18/2024)
Chapter 14:  The Narrows.  (8/19/2024)
Chapter 15:  From Little Savage Mountain.  (8/27/2024)
Chapter 16:  Mason-Dixon Line.  (8/28/2024)
Chapter 17:  Fort Necessity (8/29/2024)
Chapter 18:  Braddock's Grave, (8/30/2024)
Chapter 19:  Toll House.  (9/2/2024)
Chapter 20.  Coal Mine.  (9/5/2024)
Chapter 21:  Wheeling.  (9/6/2024)
Chapter 22:  Cambridge, Ohio.  (9/9/2024)
Chapter 23:  S-bridge.  (9/10/2024)
Chapter 24:  Highway and tree.  (9/11/2024)
Chapter 25:  Mileposts.  (9/12/2024)
Chapter 26.  Tavern.  (9/13/2024)
Chapter 27:  Taylorsville Dam.  (9/14/2024)
Chapter 28:  In full glory.  (9/16/2024)
Chapter 29.  Farm on the National Road (9/17/2024)
Chapter 30:  Victorian Elegance.  (9/18/2024)
Chapter 31:  Roadside Vendor (9/19/2024)/
Chapter 32:  Benjamin Harrison Era.  (9/21/2024)
Chapter 33:  Vandalia (9/22/2024)
Chapter 34.  Mississippi River (9/23/2024)
Chapter 35:  Road-building (9/27/2024)

Day 1429 of GOP election denier hysteria (Trump Big Lie Clown Show Circus Arizona Looney Tunes edition)

 
attack of the clown show zombies
Starring GOp Pinal County Board 
SUPERvisor Jeff Serdy  
As an election supervisor in Pinal County, Jeff Serdy criticized the Maricopa County Board of Su- pervisors in 2021 for “fighting the Constitution” by opposing the Cyber Ninjas audit, asking, “What are you hiding?” Also in 2021, he said it was good that the Pinal County Board of Supervisors had the power to appoint the county elections director as opposed to how it works in Maricopa County. In early 2023, Serdy voiced support for state legisla- tors changing the law to allow election supervisors to vote against certification. “The last two elections have been kind of wonky,” he said. “What if 2024 is even worse and we’re forced to vote ‘yes’ on something we don’t want to vote ‘yes’ on?”
Day 938 (Doug McLinko)
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Day 945 (Jeff Serdy)
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