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.
- Dane County scrambles to back up its case for eliminating paper mail, with Scott Gordon. (2025-07-14)
- Open email to Randi Weingarten and AFT about AI bullshit. (2025-07-08)
- Bob's ______ Rules. An attempt to make meetings less bureaucratic annoying by default. (2025-06-06)
- Art for Metro Transit's failures fall on drivers' shoulders. (2025-05-19)
- Another layer of isolation could be coming for Dane County Jail "residents", with Scott Gordon. (2025-02-24)
- Open email to Lori Reesor, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at UW-Madison. (2024-09-29)
- Wisconsin escalates its long tradition of prison book banning. (with Scott Gordon, 2024-09-25)
- 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)
- Guest post on Bus Advocates: The Case for Still Masking on Madison Metro in 2023: COVID and community care still matter even if capitalism has tricked many to give up on masking. (2023-10-04)
- 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)