Author Christina Lieffring Christina Lieffring is Tone Madison’s Managing Editor, a free-wheelin’ freelancer, and lifelong Midwesterner. Christina's Latest Articles A wealthy party of impoverished ideas By Christina Lieffring ● Microtones ● July 26, 2024 The economic and substantive crater of the RNC. Get yourself a “horse cop mom” T-shirt to support Tone Madison By Christina Lieffring & Scott Gordon ● Misc ● July 11, 2024 You can now wear Rachal Duggan's wonderful, absurd illustration for one of our strangest political stories. The free market will not solve Madison’s jets-vs.-housing problem By Christina Lieffring ● Capitol Punishments ● June 10, 2024 As centrists fall for the fantasy, who will end up living in the flight path? What we learned from UW-Madison’s pro-Palestine encampment By Christina Lieffring & Emily Mills ● Politics ● May 27, 2024 How this protest fits into recent history, what to carry moving forward, and what to leave behind. East-siders brought a wealth of tough questions to Madison’s first “budget engagement” of the year By Christina Lieffring ● Politics ● May 13, 2024 As the City of Madison faces a $27 million deficit for 2025, residents are digging into the details and hashing out priorities. Tone Madison’s 2023 Annual Report By Scott Gordon, Christina Lieffring, Grant Phipps & Steven Spoerl ● Misc ● May 6, 2024 Breaking down the finances, challenges, and triumphs of our ninth full year in operation. Richard Rothstein on our long history of housing segregation, and how communities can roll it back today By Christina Lieffring ● Politics ● April 15, 2024 As Madison faces continuous housing crises, the author of "The Color Of Law" offers a wealth of context and strategy that could help Madison navigate its current housing crisis. Zuckerbucks and clusterfucks By Christina Lieffring ● Capitol Punishments ● March 26, 2024 A very silly conspiracy theory and the selective memory that reinforces it. Witnessing the UW-System’s austerity from the inside By Christina Lieffring ● Politics ● February 29, 2024 Ongoing cuts raise unanswered questions: who gets to access education? And to what end? Rural districts are fair again, but can Democrats win them over? By Christina Lieffring ● Capitol Punishments ● February 22, 2024 To take advantage of new maps, the party needs to reverse a long pattern of withdrawal and neglect. Posts pagination Previous 1 … 4 5 6 … 15 Next