Christina Lieffring

1 week ago | tonemadison.com | Christina Lieffring

This is our newsletter-first column, Microtones. It runs on the site on Fridays, but you can get it in your inbox on Thursdays by signing up for our email newsletter. Total spending by billionaires and Political Action Committees (PACs) for last week’s Wisconsin Supreme Court (or SCOWIS) race reached $100 million.

2 weeks ago | tonemadison.com | Scott Gordon |Christina Lieffring |Grant Phipps |Steven Spoerl

Tone Madison will be making some major changes this year. But we’re not going away, nor is our commitment to fiercely independent coverage of culture and politics in Madison. Co-founder Scott Gordon will step down from his role as Publisher and Editor-in-Chief on May 1. After taking some time off, Gordon will continue to contribute to the publication as a writer and reporter.

4 weeks ago | tonemadison.com | Christina Lieffring

Maybe Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel’s campaign workers had a bunch of extra door hangers to dump, or maybe they’re incompetent. Either way, they decided to dump a bunch of door hangers in Madison that read “[Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate] Susan Crawford will block President Trump’s agenda”—easily one of the best endorsements for Crawford I’ve heard. Let’s take a step back and admit that voting for judges is absurd.

1 month ago | tonemadison.com | Christina Lieffring

This is our newsletter-first column, Microtones. It runs on the site on Fridays, but you can get it in your inbox on Thursdays by signing up for our email newsletter. I’m not someone who gets sentimental about big box stores. Too much has happened. Too many have closed, funded reactionary politics (Hobby Lobby is still dead to me), or abandoned any semblance of values or decency. Latest example: do you know how much time and money I, an elder Millennial, have spent at Target?

1 month ago | tonemadison.com | Christina Lieffring

This article was originally published in “No Final Drafts,” Christina Lieffring’s newsletter about “how we got here and how we could imagine a different world.” You can subscribe to this newsletter to receive it in your inbox or donate to help keep the lights on. There I was, rebranded and ready to turn a new page on a new newsletter, when two of Madison’s dippiest dipshits dipshat all over the internet.