Saturday, March 2, 2019

Keeping tabs on Sauk County government


All articles from Baraboo News-Republic unless otherwise noted.


Now a new and much more serious chapter unfolds.

Related Sauk County Board articles and posts: 
2019
Sauk County Board member charged with possessing child porn.  (Baraboo News-Republic 2/28/2019)
No reprimand for Sauk County Board member caught shoplifting.  (Baraboo News-Republic, 2/20/2019)
Sauk County Board to consider rebuke of supervisor who shoplifted,  (Baraboo News-Republic, 2/13/2019)
Insurance company pushed Sauk County to appeal ruling in records case.  (Baraboo News-Republic, 1/16/2019)
Sauk County Board supervisor ticketed for alleged shoplifting in Reedsburg.  (Baraboo News-Republic, 1/9/2019)

2018
Ben Bromley: Send this county board back to kindergarten.  (La Crosse Tribune, 8/20/2018)
Another Sauk County Board of Supervisor screw-up (The Tim Meister edition).  (4/13/2018)
Fortunately, Tim Meister is not running for re-election to the Sauk County Board of Supervisors.  (3/23/2018)
Supervisor David Moore, gun fetishist, wants to put a lid on public comment at Sauk County board meetings.  (2/16/2018)
Lie or misrepresentation: Newspaper gives Sauk County Board chair benefit of the doubt.  (1/11/2018)

2017
Sauk County Board sideshow: Dennis Polivka makes his constituents proud.  (4/6/2017)
UPDATE. The fussin', feudin', and finger-pointin' continues in Sauk County.  (1/20/2017)

2016
Letter to the editor:  Sauk County must fix high turnover in top positions.  (12/1/2016)
Sauk County won't release complaints against administrator.  (12/1/2016)
Sauk County's last two top administrators dismissed under similar circumstances.  (11/29/2016)
Sauk County Board approves separation agreement with top administrator.  (11/22/2016)
County supervisors ordered to preserve documents, data.  (11/20/2016)
Sauk County administrative coordinator under scrutiny.  (11/3/2016)

Book reviewer Jennifer Szalai on income inequality in 50 words or less


Nervous States in LINKcat:  3 copies, 6 holds (to date)

BOOKS OF THE TIMES ,  How the Mind-Body Connection Is Rewiring Our Politics.  (The New York Times, 2/27/2019)

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Repeat after me: Seattle's minimum wage has gone too far. (6/30/2017)
Former U.S. Senator Alan K. Simpson isn't singing with the current Republican chorus.  (11/9/2015)
It's Deja Vu Vu Vu All Over Again: The Rich Get Richer, the Poor Poorer.  (8/12/2014)
The Very Rich are not Spending Their Money on Job Creation, Suckers.  (3/5/2014)

Donald Trump, nudist, visits Vietnam


Donald Trump, in the role for which he is best-suited.


Reported in Trump-Kim Summit’s Collapse Exposes the Risks of One-to-One Diplomacy.  (The New York Times, 2/28/2019)