Christina Lieffring

Sun Prairie

Journalist at Freelance

News and Politics Editor at Tone Madison

She/Her. Capitol Punishments on Substack (subscribe!). News and Politics editor at @ToneMSN. Freewheelin' freelancer. Lifelong Midwesterner.

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Tone Madison's 2024 Annual Report

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

Our annual report is a bit later than usual this year because, as you may know, we’ve been undergoing a major transition. Scott Gordon, Tone Madison co-founder and Publisher, stepped down at the end of April. While it didn’t take long for his byline to pop up again (and there will certainly be more of that in the future), the day-to-day operations of Tone Madison are now in the hands of Film Editor Grant Phipps, Music Editor Steven Spoerl, and myself.
A leftist critique of top-heavy public institutions

3 weeks 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. In a 2015 interview, Ira Glass, founder of the popular radio show and podcast This American Life, talked about why he asked his employers, WBEZ Chicago, to lower his income.
The SCOWIS race was about more than Elon Musk

2 months 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.
Tone Madison is announcing some leadership changes

2 months 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.
Wisconsin's Supreme Court could buffer the state from federal chaos or invite it in

Mar 26, 2025 | 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.
Excavating creativity and joy out of Joann's remains

Mar 14, 2025 | 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?
Our former mayors’ brain rot is on full display

Mar 11, 2025 | 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.
Building interest in construction

Feb 25, 2025 | columbustelegram.com | Christina Lieffring

COLUMBUS — Tate Janssen and Quinn Matteson’s project for the 2016 Norfolk Home & Garden Show looks deceptively simple, but the Adirondack chair has tested the Lakeview High School students’ skills and patience. With complicated angles, curves and finger joints and no blueprint, the process wasn't easy. For some pieces, they had to make 10 to 12 test pieces before getting it right. “You can’t screw up,” said Janssen. “You screw up, you start over,” added Matteson.
Residents voice concerns at wind farm meeting

Feb 25, 2025 | columbustelegram.com | Christina Lieffring

HUMPHREY — Loup Public Power District and Bluestem Energy Solutions, the Omaha developer behind Creston Ridge Wind Farm, held their first informational meeting Wednesday night in Humphrey to update the public on the project's second phase. This work includes adding three turbines near the four already in place at the wind farm located along Mason Road (205th Avenue) southwest of Creston.
CRP interest growing in some areas

Feb 25, 2025 | columbustelegram.com | Christina Lieffring

Friday is the last day landowners can enter bids for the federal Conservation Reserve Program, and with lower grain prices and higher CRP payments, area farmers are showing greater interest. CRP is a federal program through the U.S. Department of Agriculture that compensates landowners for voluntarily devoting agricultural land to environmental conservation. Producers submit a proposal detailing the acreage and type of conservation activity and how much they would like to be compensated.

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