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The Wisconsin Expenditure Restraint Program is the 2nd-dumbest municipal funding program and everyone involved should feel bad
What is the State of Wisconsin’s Expenditure Restraint Program and why is it stupid?
 • Erik Paulson
Madison’s Budget Challenge, Part 4: We should do a City of Madison budget referendum. Here’s how.
The final post of the series, let’s look ahead to a potential operating referendum.
 • Erik Paulson
Madison’s Budget Challenge Part 3: How the 2023 $31M budget surplus is actually bad news
The third of a four part series and a bit shorter than the first two, in this post I’ll explain why Madison’s $31M surplus from 2023 was bad news for…
 • Erik Paulson
Madison’s Budget Challenge, Part 2: Augustine’s 16th Law and future budgets, or Clickbait: How F-35s and the Madison Police Department share…
The second entry in a four-part series, this post looks at what happens to the City of Madison’s structural budget deficit over the next 35 years if we…
 • Erik Paulson
Madison’s Budget Challenge, Part 1: The most important budget number is not actually in the budget
The first in a multipart series, getting into the weeds of the upcoming 2025 City of Madison budget and the structural deficit.
 • Erik Paulson
Madison’s Budget Challenges: A four part series
Coming this week, starting Monday (I hope)
 • Erik Paulson
Creating new Single Family Homes in Madison: The power is with Veridian, not Mayor Satya and the City
Since 2009, Veridian has built 68% of the new single family homes in Madison, more than twice as much as everyone else combined. I built a web map app…
 • Erik Paulson
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