.png)
Blaska's Bring It!
with David Blaska
04/24/13To the anti-gun nut, everything is cause for confiscationThe Boston Marathon bombers “were law-abiding until they weren’t,” blogs the anti-gun nut who calls himself “Citizen Dave.” “In Newtown, where mass murderer Adam Lanza was law-abiding until the moment ...” preaches former mayor Dave Cieslewicz. Do you see where he’s going with this? Because someone might break the law, everyone should be denied their Second Amendment rights! Pre-emption! This is more than a slippery slope – it is an avalanche of unreason! Posted at 08:54 AM | Permalink | Comments: 2 |
|
04/23/13Meadowood faces a long, hot summer; can $1 million cool things off?It will warm up in Madison, I have to believe – the temperatures and, in parts of the city, the tension. The bad news is that crime and quality of life issues are worse than ever on the southwest side of Madison. The good news is that Madison police and the city-county public health departments applied earlier this month for a $1 million federal grant to combat the social rot. The question: Will any of it do any good? Posted at 09:29 AM | Permalink | Comments: 3 |
|
04/22/13Invoking the spirit of Maggie Thatcher at the Madison School BoardYes, the Madison School Board needs a good haunting. Any company that hiked prices by 7.4% would meet massive customer resistance unless it faced a shortage caused by some natural disaster. What is the disaster facing the Madison School District – unless it is of its own making? Posted at 10:52 AM | Permalink | Comments: 1 |
|
04/18/13Meadowood crime is right back where it started – only worse; now it’s the ‘Young Fellaz’Here we go again on the southwest side of Madison. Same as it ever was. It was the long hot summer of 2007 when concerned neighbors – over 700 of them – convened at St. Maria Goretti School to persuade Mayor Dave Cieslewicz to abandon his fixation on trollies and focus on the rampant crime and quality of life issues plaguing the city. Those concerns were outlined in bright yellow crime tape on the evening of June 9, 2009, when a 17-year-old boy was gunned down by three other boys from a rival gang in the Meadowood neighborhood. Posted at 10:18 AM | Permalink | Comments: 3 |
|
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 |
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 "
