Editor - Yellow Stripes & Dead Armadillos, Blogger - Citizen Dave at Isthmus, Mayor of Madison, WI from 2003 to 2011.
Madison, United States (Local)
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The state of Wisconsin has a nice problem. It has a $4 billion surplus and next year the governor and legislature will have to figure out what to do with it.
Can we get a break from ‘journey,’ ‘authenticity’ and ‘iconic’ in the new year?
We're just finishing up our fourth full year of producing YSDA. Readership has grown steadily since we began and so, this year, we exceeded all three previous years for traffic on the site. It's not spectacular growth and we have not gone viral, but it's steady progress — which is appropriate enough for a site dedicated to moderation in all things.
This week's quote, the final one for 2024, comes to us appropriately enough from President-Elect Donald J. Trump, who as part of his Christmas message said,
This year, New York Times columnist Pamela Paul emerged as my favorite opinion writer, while old favorites like David Brooks and Bret Stephens also had fine years. But the best column of the year, in my opinion, was a one off by an obscure NPR editor named Uri Berliner.
The election of an unstable, hard-right, populist authoritarian to return to the White House notwithstanding, it was actually a pretty good year for moderate politics. The country may have swung hard-right at the top, but in a lot of other ways it nudged to the middle.
As a rule, I'm not big on New Year's resolutions. But I am a planner and a record keeper. I set annual goals for exercise (e.g., walk 540 miles a year, that's an average of 1.5 miles a day), writing (an average of three hours a day, five days a week), and a half dozen other things.
Jimmy Carter's passing has got me thinking about the Presidents that have served during my lifetime, which began at the end of Dwight Eisenhower's second term.
I am neither culturally nor politically in tune with National Public Radio, yet for some reason, I tune it in nonetheless. If you love NPR — or if you're like me and find yourself listening to it until you just can't take it anymore — don't despair. It's not going away even if Donald Trump makes good on his renewed threat to defund it.
Welcome to 2025. We'll start off the Quote & Quiz this year with words from none other than House Speaker (Still) Mike Johnson who said:
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