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2 months ago | 
tonemadison.com | Christina Lieffring |lifelong Midwesterner
Far from the rolling hills of Epic Systems’ campus in Verona, Wisconsin, hundreds of registered nurses—including members of the country’s largest nurses union, National Nurses United—held a protest at Kaiser Permanente’s (KP) San Francisco Medical Center in April 2024.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
tonemadison.com | Scott Gordon |Christina Lieffring |lifelong Midwesterner
A paid consultant for body-camera manufacturer Axon conducted research for a Madison Police Department (MPD) study of a body-worn camera (BWC) pilot program earlier in 2024. His connections to the company are not disclosed in a recently completed MPD report that presents him as an independent third party. MPD Chief Shon Barnes submitted the report, available in full at this link, to Madison’s Common Council and Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway on November 15.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
tonemadison.com | Christina Lieffring |lifelong Midwesterner
This story includes descriptions of sexual harassment, harassment in the workplace, and domestic violence. If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233, via online live chat, or via text by texting “START” to 88788; or contact Madison’s Domestic Abuse Intervention Services help line via phone at at 608-251-4445 or via text at 608-420-4638.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
tonemadison.com | Christina Lieffring |lifelong Midwesterner
We know what happened, at least on a surface level. Comparing 2020 to 2024, Donald Trump gained about 1.4 million votes; Kamala Harris received almost 9 million fewer votes than Joe Biden did in 2020. Several states, including Wisconsin, flipped Republican. But at the state level in Wisconsin, Democrats did… OK. Not enough to flip the state legislature, but enough to make a sizable dent in Wisconsin Republicans’ lead (not that it makes any difference to Assembly Speaker Robin Vos ).
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
tonemadison.com | Christina Lieffring |lifelong Midwesterner
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.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
tonemadison.com | Christina Lieffring |lifelong Midwesterner
This piece is republished from Capitol Punishments, Christina Lieffring’s newsletter on the abundance of bad policies, bad takes, and bad actors in Wisconsin politics.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
tonemadison.com | Christina Lieffring |lifelong Midwesterner
Tone Madison turns 10 years old this year. To mark a decade of our fiercely independent, reader-supported coverage of culture and politics in Madison, we’re revisiting some highlights from our archives. Got a favorite Tone Madison story you think we should include? Let us know by sending an email to [email protected]. Editor’s note: Before joining Tone Madison’s editorial team, I mostly worked at newspapers without staff photographers or editorial illustrators.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
tonemadison.com | Christina Lieffring |lifelong Midwesterner
Opponents to the City of Madison’s proposed $22 million referendum—which would increase property taxes to fill an urgent budget gap—invoke its potential impact on the working class and poor for why they plan to vote “No” on November 5. They argue that a “Yes” vote would aggravate the “unequal burden on renters,” or paint a picture of senior citizens on fixed incomes absorbing the cost. But that’s not an accurate picture of Madison homeowners in the aggregate or the dynamics of rental prices.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
tonemadison.com | Christina Lieffring |lifelong Midwesterner
Tone Madison turns 10 years old this year. To mark a decade of our fiercely independent, reader-supported coverage of culture and politics in Madison, we’re revisiting some highlights from our archives. Got a favorite Tone Madison story you think we should include? Let us know by sending an email to [email protected]. “Badass bitch” —Sami Schalk, at least once per column.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
tonemadison.com | Christina Lieffring |lifelong Midwesterner
On September 23, the City of Madison Clerk’s Office released a statement about a data processing error that had caused around 2,000 voters to receive duplicate absentee ballots. The office was contacting those voters, telling them to only submit one ballot and destroy the duplicate. As a backup, absentee ballot envelopes have barcodes tied to individual voters.
