Street Talk

Submitted by
Name: Curious One

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Any links between Keeley Stingel, vice president of business development of Temple & Temple and the mayor or Kevin Kellems?

Added: October 14, 2025 01:44:03 PM

Submitted by
Name: Angry Driver

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The contractor Temple & Temple has no regard for anyone but themselves. They are rude and do not even make an effort to think about the local residents.

Added: October 14, 2025 01:36:37 PM

Submitted by
Name: Better late than never

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Mayor finally got around to making it official that Assistant Chief Mundt is the new interim chief who has been the old interim chief for many weeks. What is new is the mayor officially but discreetly has announced Scudder is out as chief - so searching for new chief has officially begun today but unofficially began weeks ago.

Riverfront Defense had entered the legal action phase. Citizens should continue attending public meetings and following the Facebook page. Look for the plan commission to try to correct mayor’s and commissions misdeeds and possible illegal conduct in the coming months. It’s not over till the fat lady (or judge) sings and that’s going to be months if not more than a year from now. No building going up anytime soon and depositions for key players in the future. I’ll keep you posted.

City employee injured on the job did not suffer a catastrophic head injury but it was a severe injury to the jaw . Unsafe work practice and supervisory failure appear to be the contributing factors.

Animal shelter still not adequately funded in either city or county 2026 budget.

Possible primary for commissioners seat - Mr. Lee may be challenged once again by Mr. Copeland. Copeland is a Courtney pal. Lee is more devoted to county/city/towns rather than beholding to mayor. Sims and Flint are in a tough race for gop sherriff.

Republicans at the state are back to considering redistricting to help Trump retain congressional seats. Recent big swing victories for Dems in other states has DC and state GOP nervous enough to cheat midcycle. Indiana gop was holding strong against redistricting until another visit from VP Vance. The race for 9th district congressional seats against nearly invisible Erin Houchin has a wide Democrat field and with two viable, competitive candidates; the race has been graded as “within a win”. The shift against Houchin is expected to continue as Trump and Braun slide in popularity along with slumping soy bean sales. Locally you can expect the riverfront district to become an issue in the race because federal money helps fund IEDC - which finds the READI grants which helps fund luxury apartments for wealthy persons and has many asking-“what does the mayor get for going against the vast majority of citizens.”

I’ll try to catch other questions soon. In meantime keep sending to Jeff or you know where to find me. Tjh

Added: October 14, 2025 12:10:25 PM

Submitted by
Name: Enough
From: Downtown

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So they've made Main Street impassable and now have placed temporary stop signs along the alternate routes (2nd and 3 streets). What does this administration have against people easily getting in and out of downtown?

Added: October 14, 2025 09:50:54 AM

Submitted by
Name: col bogey
From: coruptville,indiana

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to Carla Krabs-- your political stunt fooled no one. To josh wilber, you ran from a battle, a political coward.One of the most critical times in Madison history and you fled . I hope you were never in the military,Your cowardness would only cause someone else in your unit to be hurt or abandoned

Added: October 12, 2025 11:13:29 PM

Submitted by
Name: Downtowner too
From: Madison

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Here's a riddle for you, if you wanted to give the mayor a new name and it had to come from a monty python movie what would you choice be? 😁😁😁

Added: October 12, 2025 09:59:19 PM

Submitted by
Name: This is Rich

Comments:
@ that old shelter, nope before Bobby came along we did not have an assistant mayor or comptroller. The whole idea behind that was that when he got called to another job north of here, he could just slip in his assistant mayor, which he renamed comptroller after his last indoctrination. Well that hasn't happened. Nobody wants him and that goes for us too. But the city bylaws say that if the mayor cannot serve under whatever circumstances the president of the city council no matter who that is takes over and fills his seat until there is a replacement. So I'm not sure that if Bob does go away, then when he has planned is even legal. I'm sure as hell like to find out. The sooner the better maybe it'll break the spell over all those Council people down there that's Bewitched or whatever.

Added: October 12, 2025 07:53:10 PM

Submitted by
Name: Snort
From: Madison
E-mail: Contact

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WOW! There are so many things in Madison that need to be taken care of! With his council not doing their job. Then we have street dept. causing havoc along Main St. Annual events trying to have events among all the Main St. confusion. How do we keep letting this happen? The mayor doesn’t coordinate with any of the organizations that have annual event!
Visitors come to town, have heard about this events and let’s make it as difficult as possible to enjoy the event! So thank you Mr.Mayor!

Added: October 12, 2025 05:55:23 PM

Submitted by
Name: ??
From: Madison
E-mail: Contact

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The Mayor needs to get a grip, he needs to get rid of the deputy mayor do his own damn job. Photo opts all the time is ridiculous, we all know what he looks. The salary of the deputy mayor can be used at the animal shelter and a few others that are not really needed at city hall. The street department can't even get lines painted in places they need to be, but don't try and get a hold of Chris Hale cause he doesn't want to be bothered. The parks department is just a joke the right hand doesnt know what the left is doing. No wonder there isnt any little league or any others. That's why they are out to Hanover.
The commissioners need to get off their * * * and divi up money for the animal shelter also, instead of talking about. Its ridiculous that the people and the poor animals have to put up with such inhuman conditions.

Added: October 12, 2025 03:49:24 PM

Submitted by
Name: That Old Animal Shelter

Comments:
Okay, if my information and/or assumptions are wrong, let's get it straight. There is an entity on Chewy for an animal shelter located in Madison (searchable at the top center under 'Give Back'). If a person donates through this link, where is the money going? To the intended place? To unclaimed funds in Chewy land? The only option is to send Chewy gift cards (which I guess means account balance credits?). Is there a rogue ex-employee that administered the Chewy connection and has been accessing donations garnered through this link for their own use?

I don't know. I figured links through the site would be vetted and have to be updated every so often. Maybe they're not. Maybe someone is taking funds in the shelter's name and the shelter isn't getting them. If the current shelter is getting the funds, why is the current shelter not utilizing the Chewy site and putting items on their wish list so the public can order them to be shipped directly to the shelter? Chewy also has a place on the site to showcase adoptable animals. Why is the current shelter not utilizing this venue to reach a broader audience? If the current shelter does not want to use Chewy, then they need to get the current listing taken down so no one else is confused and sends funds to an unintended destination. If they are using Chewy, they need to use it better.

Added: October 12, 2025 02:40:35 PM