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Last year, in response to a series of dangerous incidents in and around Madison schools including two melees outside of East High School, the Madison school district responded by creating a committee… which was the third committee of its kind created in five years… which took months to get organized… which, for some reason, expandedContinue reading “A Year Wasted for Madison School Safety”

One of the ways to deal with the angst over college debt is to not go to college. More to the point, one good way to deal with it is for employers to eliminate a four-year degree requirement for jobs where it’s not needed — which is to say the vast majority of them. OnContinue reading “Rethinking College”

There will be twists and turns in the effort to give the Milwaukee Brewers’ billionaire owners what they want to keep them in the city for another decade and a half. But you can be sure that in the end they’ll get a couple hundred million dollars or so of the public’s money whether theyContinue reading “Brewers Deal Is All About Milwaukee”

Greg Gard wouldn’t commit. When asked, in the wake of the Badger’s worst performance of the season and their one-and-done in the first round of the Big Ten tournament, whether he’d accept a bid to the NIT, he wouldn’t say. I get it. It’s like you’ve been expecting a free trip to Paris and thenContinue reading “Go To The NIT”

Let’s start this morning with a quiz. Why has Speaker Robin Vos’ rejected Gov. Tony Evers’ proposal to give the Milwaukee Brewers $290 million? (Choose two.) A) It was Evers’ idea. B) His caucus hates all things Milwaukee. C) It’s horrible public policy. If you selected A and B you win a free years’ subscriptionContinue reading “Vos Rejects Evers’ Brewers Payoff”

Well, you could have seen that coming a mile away. As soon as Speaker Kevin McCarthy gave Fox “News” showman Tucker Carlson exclusive access to January 6th footage you knew that Tucker would tuck into that and show film of people walking. People walk. Assassins walk to their sniper’s nests. Mass shooters walk into schools.Continue reading “Mostly Peaceful”

The Republican Party in general, and Ron DeSantis in particular, is building its whole image around their opposition to woke. That’s pathetic. It’s pathetic because, while woke certainly has a dangerous and corrosive element to it (which I’ll get to), it doesn’t stack up well against the serious challenges and opportunities facing our nation. TheContinue reading “The Good, the Bad & the Ugly of Woke”

We have three goals here at YSDA. Be honest. We never write anything we don’t believe, at least at the moment in which it is being written. We never take a provocative position just to generate readership. Be clear. We’re not much on subtlety around here. We don’t like obfuscation. We don’t like to implyContinue reading “A Word On Language”

I’m feeling especially snarky this morning (I know, this is a high bar) so I thought I’d just pop off about a few random things. Making lawyers look bad. Two liberal lawyers have filed a 100-page complaint with the Wisconsin Office of Lawyer Regulation charging former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman with, “a shambolic, dishonest,Continue reading “A Few Damn Things”

Unable to buy his kid a U.S. Senate seat from Wisconsin, New York hedge fund operator Marc Lasry has decided to pull up stakes and sell his share in the Milwaukee Bucks. Lasry and his partners bought the Bucks from Herb Kohl in 2014 for $550 million. After the taxpayers helped pay for a newContinue reading “Lasry Cashes Out”