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Blaska's Bring It!
with David Blaska
04/16/13Madison’s public schools go to lockdown mode; no new ideas wantedGraphical user interface? I think not, Mr. Jobs. Mainframe is where it’s at. Big and honking, run by guys in white lab coats. Smart phones? iPads? You’re dreaming. Take your new ideas somewhere else. That is the Madison School Board. It has decided to batten the hatches against change. It is securing the perimeter against new thinking. It is the North Korea of education: insular, blighted, and paranoid. Posted at 01:47 PM | Permalink | Comments: 14 |
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04/12/13Housing is a human right; paying for it is your responsibility – not mineDavid Clarenbach, the downtown Madison legislator two decades ago, once posited that cable television was a constitutional right. Your humble squire parried that if we were going to expand the Constitution in such profligate fashion, we might put the sacred document on a Rolodex. Dates me, doesn’t it? Posted at 10:37 AM | Permalink | Comments: 6 |
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04/10/13Don’t duck and cover! Throw a garbage can!The New York Times can’t tell a rifle from a shotgun, prompting an embarrassing correction of its description of the weapon held by a farmer in New York Mayor Bloomberg’s gun control television campaign. Then again, the Times’ Vatican reporter described Easter as “the celebration of the resurrection into heaven of Jesus,” according to The Weekly Standard. The Vatican reporter! |
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04/05/13Mayor Dave: One small crack in Madison’s ‘progressive’ wall?That former mayor, once Progressive Dane, is doing what Mark Twain’s father did – getting smarter the older he gets. Is he the first real crack in Madison’s white-Progressive ruling establishment? |
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04/03/13Madison progressive political machine hands Scott Walker another school victoryCongratulations to Madison’s white power elite, especially to Democrats, organized labor, John Matthews and his teachers union. You very well may have elected a teachers union-first (“Collectively we decide ...”), children second school board. You also just handed Scott Walker a powerful case for expanding private school vouchers. Posted at 12:11 PM | Permalink | Comments: 15 |
Raised on a farm near Sun Prairie, David Blaska is a recovering liberal who spent 18 years in daily newspapers, including 12 at The Capital Times in Madison as a reporter and editor. He served Gov. Tommy Thompson as acting press secretary in 1998 and is a veteran and survivor of 19 years in state government. He served 12 years on the Dane County Board of Supervisors. From December 2007 to November 2011 he wrote the consistently popular "
