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On the side of Chris Elke’s van, in a three-act drama, a woman meets the man of her dreams (assuming she dreamt her feet were wet): a plumber.
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Read More »Plumber draws a straight Flush
Preservation’s punch line
Two guys from Idaho walk into Phoenix. They lay down $1.8 million for a 60-year-old house. But they want the property, not the house.
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Read More »The few, the proud, the technologically indifferent
Seconds after the speaker announced a 15-minute break, nine of the 10 heads around the boardroom table bowed.
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Read More »Nearer my God to business
Open meetings challenge faces long odds
Challenging the legality of Wednesday’s hastily convened state legislative committee meeting on collective bargaining could do little more than stall the bill’s approval, according to members of the legal community. The Joint Committee of Conference met at 6 p.m. Wednesday ...
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Read More »Taxing decisions for condo developments
By Chris Thompson
editor
The Wisconsin Supreme Court went 2-for-3 Friday in ruling on taxing vacant lots approved for condo developments.
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Read More »Public market money should stay private
By Chris Thompson
editor
Somebody at some point decided Madison’s public market project gets to play by a different set of development rules.
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Read More »Too soon to take out the trash
By Chris Thompson
editor
The friction caused by the furious hand-wringing over plasma gasification could, in itself, be considered a form of renewable energy.
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Read More »Make the farmer ‘an offer he can’t refuse’
By Chris Thompson
editor
The neighborly thing to do before ripping a farmer’s land out from under him through eminent domain would be to make him an official offer for the property.
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Read More »Rail could be the only ‘high-speed’ aspect of Madison’s depot decision
By Chris Thompson
editor
If Madison’s everyone-has-a-say-and-every-topic-deserves-a-public-hearing mentality for project approval holds, the high-speed rail station at Monona Terrace is teed up for at least a year’s worth of neighborhood questions, criticisms and suggested improvements.
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