Articles

I've been working on some local citizen journalism and thinking about how to build a better world. And maybe a goofy nonfiction fun thing here and there.

• Guest post on Debate Me, Bro on mental health care and anarchism. (2024-04-02)
• Dane County's jail money pit gets deeper, but some want to keep digging. (2024-01-16)
• Dane County tries to buy itself a six figure helping of Mahoney baloney. (2023-06-28)
• The Dane County Jail project heads toward a crucial vote. (2023-04-18)
• Book banning is alive and well in Wisconsin prisons. (2023-03-14)
• Goodbye, Halloween House. (2022-09-07)
• Digging into the latest opposition to a smaller Dane County Jail. (2022-08-15)
• Dane County’s jail project barrels down a familiar road, but there are always more off-ramps. (2022-08-08)
• The Dane County Board pairs more jail funding with toothless calls for reform. (2022-03-07)
• New co-responder programs for mental health crises offer different approaches—including whether they send police to the scene. (2022-02-23)
• Misframing decisions about the County jail does the public a disservice. (2022-01-17)
• Public health, public safety, and the people caught in the coils. (2021-11-24)
• My research project on cash bail in Dane County. (2021-05-22)
• Common Council and the Community for Responsible Government [with Karl Locher], billboard silliness continues. (2021-03-19)
• Body Cameras: The Big Picture (2021-02-21)
• Crime Wave Hysteria vs. Reality billboards go up around town. (2020-12-16) [Update: it was a landlord who doesn't even live in the city]
• We Should Ban Facial Recognition Technology, an investigation of body cams and facial recognition algorithms in Red Madison (2020-11-30)
• Approval Voting: What Is It and How Does It Work? in Red Madison (2020-11-06)