Two committees of the Dane County Board of Supervisors are meeting tonight to gather information on the performance of the Dane County 911 Communications Center in the wake of the murder of Brittany Zimmermann.

Board Chair Scott McDonell and others have called for an audit of the Center focusing on its procedures and whether its procedures are being followed.

It is suggested that such an audit be conducted by an outside firm, free of political considerations.

Good idea.

To complement this reasonable course of action, Dane County needs the establishment of a paid citizens' committee composed of broad communities of interests, devoid of elected officials, and certainly free of civil servants in Dane County, including those serving in the County Executive's office.

Such a committee ought to have as its deliverables:

- The establishment of specific directives to improve the performance of the 911 Communications Center

I spent Saturday at Fighting Bob Fest - unfortunately I was stuck in the Uppity Wisconsin booth most of the day, as was Lori. But I did get to talk to lots of people, and see a few of the speeches, and shoot a little video.

But this morning I note that the web site of our local TV station actually mentions Bob Fest - But this is the entire story -

Peace mom" Cindy Sheehan was the headliner at an anti-war rally in Baraboo this weekend.

The
prominent activist told a cheering crowd yesterday that President Bush
and Vice President Dick Cheney must be impeached for waging an illegal
war.

She rose to prominence after her soldier son was killed five days after arriving in Iraq in 2004.

Last
month the Dane County Board of Supervisors also endorsed impeachment
proceedings against Bush and Cheney by a vote of 20 to 3.

 

Not even the name of the fest, nor any information that would lead you to think it was anything more than an anti-war rally. 7200 people, lots of discussion, a whole array of progressive issues - and it's an "anti-war rally".

Bob Fest was a whole lot more interesting than you'd think from the way it is treated in the local press.

For a little fuller coverage, see the article in the Capital Times.

For those of you who don't buy the "left-wing media" argument, there's some bright news- GoLeft TV is now on the air,and will bring multiple different video news feeds to the Internet, with a lefty viewpoint. I'm working out some issues with the GoLeft people at the moment, but for the time being, here's a preview of a some of what will be showing: (click on read more to see the video).  What do you think?  Want to see more here?