2nd flat on my bike so far this season.
I haven’t seen a street sweeper out all year, so all the streets are full of glass shards and other sharp stuff.
Fucking budget cuts…
Madison is a town for serious drinkers and Brocach is a bar for the most serious among them. All exposed brick, dark wood and plush chairs, the place couldn’t be homier.
And the Wisconsin Capitol is literally right across the street, so the view is fantastic.
Crazy foggy here in Madison today.
Believe it or not, this is a view of Lake Mendota.
Whelp… Looks like I’m gonna die…
Thursday
Overcast with snow. High of 16F with a windchill as low as -9F. Breezy. Winds from the WNW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 50%.
Thursday Night
Overcast with snow showers in the evening, then mostly cloudy. Low of -8F with a windchill as low as -26F. Breezy. Winds from the WNW at 10 to 20 mph.
Friday
Partly cloudy. High of 7F with a windchill as low as -22F. Winds from the West at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of snow 20%.
Papa John's Obamacare Price Hike Cheered By Ian's Pizza In Wisconsin
Papa John’s CEO John Schnatter’s recent statement that the Affordable Care Act will force the pizza chain to raise prices came as good news to Nick Martin.
Martin, a part owner of Ian’s Pizza, a pizza shop with four locations in Wisconsin, said his business has offered full heath care coverage to its 50 full-time employees for years, making it all the more difficult to compete with national chains like Papa John’s that pay workers low wages without health benefits.
“This may level the playing field for us,” Martin said of the Papa John’s price hike. “If they have to pay for benefits, and that pushes their prices up closer to ours, it will justify what we’ve been paying for and what we’ve been fighting to do the past few years.” (Ian’s knows a bit about fighting, having fed demonstrat
Remember back when pro-union protesters were occupying the capitol and people were sending them pizzas? That was Ian’s.
(via other-stuff)
I’ll be phonebanking for this later today, so I may not get a lot of blogging in today.
