Articles In This Issue

• Woke Is What Broke Sun Prairie Schools - David Blaska

• A Most Dire Warning From 80 Years Ago - Kim M. Babler

• EMS in Hot Seat in Cross Plains/Town of Berry area- Rolf Lindgren

Woke Is What Broke Sun Prairie Schools

David Blaska, Blaska Policy Werkes - September 6, 2025

Your irascible host is a proud graduate of Sun Prairie Sr. High School, Class of 19xx … well, never mind. The farm village of our youth had a working blacksmith (he was village president) and a harness maker on Main Street. In the years since, the city has grown more populous than Manitowoc, requiring two brand new high schools in striking new buildings. The newest, SP West, opened in 2022 and serves 1,300 students 9-12.

Since our school days in detention hall, a bad case of diversity, equity, and inclusion has infected Sun Prairie’s public schools no less than Madison’s. The troubles afflicting them are a direct result of educators’ obsession with race.

The city is in a justifiable uproar over the criminal charges brought against the dean of students at SP West of sexual exploitation of a child (two counts) and 13 counts of possession of child pornography — all felonies. Robert Gilkey-Meisegeier allegedly bought booze for under-age girls in exchange for nude photos, secretly took 200 photos of girls, and engaged in sex acts on school grounds. The dean of students!

He’s the third district employee to be charged with sexual misconduct involving students since December 2022! . . .

A Most Dire Warning From 80 Years Ago

Kim M. Babler - September 8, 2025

It was 80 years ago, September 2. 1945, when World War II hostilities ended on the deck of the battleship USS Missouri with the signing of the instruments of surrender by the nations at war. The most terrible war in 4,700 years of recorded history came to an end after taking the lives of 60,000,000 from all causes (maybe as many as 100,000,000) and the severely and permanently disabling of millions more from physical and physiological injuries that robbed them of their useful lives.

MacArthur said: “A new era is upon us. Even the lesson of victory itself brings with it profound concern, both for our future security and the survival of civilization. The destructiveness of the war potential, through progressive advances in scientific discovery, has in fact now reached a point which revises the traditional concepts of war. Men since the beginning of time have sought peace. Various methods through the ages have attempted to devise an international process to prevent or settle disputes between nations. From the very start workable methods were found insofar as individual citizens were concerned, but the mechanics of an instrumentality of larger international scope have never been successful. Military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn failed, leaving the only path to be by way of the crucible of war.

He continued: “We have had our last chance. If we do not now devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door. The problem basically is theological and involves a spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature and all material and cultural developments of the past two thousand years, It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.” . . .

EMS in Hot Seat in Cross Plains/Town of Berry area

Rolf Lindgren - September 7, 2025

Dating back almost 50 years, an EMS (Emergency Medical Sevices) contract has covered the Village of Cross Plains, Town of Cross Plains, Town of Berry and part of the Town of Springfield.