🗳️ City sued over election snafu

🏤 Madison Federal Buildings on DOGE’s Hit List

• Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has targeted 16 Wisconsin federal offices, including four in Madison, to be downsized or closed to save money.
• The Madison buildings include the Federal Highway Administration office, which has about 30 employees, and Madison’s Food & Drug Administration office.
• 🎧 Dig deeper: We dive into the effects of federal cuts in Wisconsin on the City Cast Madison podcast’s Friday news roundup. We also talk about the 10th anniversary of the death of Tony Robinson, and Kavanaugh’s Esquire Club’s very strange week. Listen in! (WKOW, 🎧 City Cast Madison, Madison365)

🚨 Seven Children Found Unattended in Mifflin Street Home

• Madison Police are investigating after seven unattended children were found in a home on Mifflin Street. Neighbors called Dane County Child Protective Services Division and said it seemed like the children appeared to have been on their own for a week, and the county called police.
• The children ranged in age from two to 13 years old, and police said the conditions they were living in were “deplorable.” [WMTV]

🗳️ City and County Sued Over Uncounted Ballots

• A class action lawsuit has been filed against the city and Dane County over 193 ballots that went uncounted in the Nov. 5, 2024 general election.
• The Wisconsin Election Commission investigated and found that poor communication between City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl’s office and Dane County officials, and lack of confirmation procedures on Election Day contributed to the error. The city recently announced additional election safeguards that would prevent that sort of oversight from happening again.
• Progressive law firm Law Forward filed the suit, and alleges $175,000 in damages. [Ch. 3000, Isthmus]

Meet Matryoshka, “Yosh” to her family! Yosh was adopted off of Craigslist to provide companionship to another cat, and quickly found her way into her new family’s hearts. She is indeed as soft and fluffy as she looks, and her cuddles are so therapeutic that one of her human friends even got a tattoo to celebrate her healing powers. She doesn’t meow, but makes a sort of a musical “eeee” sound, and if you make that sound to her, she’ll sing it back to you. Her humans say “she is a majestic queen and we love her so much.”