The Monroe StreetTattler

Urgent Reports on Matters of Limited Public Importance

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November 2026

Trader Joe’s: What Are They Hiding?

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November 2026

Trader Joe’s Frozen Pizzas Put on Trial

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November 2026

The Man Who Knows Where Everything Is Buried

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November 2026

Monroe Street Pizzagate

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November 2026

Part II: Second Librarian Breaks Silence

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November 2026

Human Accomplice Emerges in Crane Crossing Mystery

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November 2026

Has the Little Free Library Movement Gone Too Far?

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November 2026

Who Really Runs Gregory Street?

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November 2026

Child Labor Makes Comeback

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November 2026

Monroe Street Emerges From Month of Monkey Chaos!

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November 2026

Dear Barb: “Take it to the grave.”

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November 2026

Local Restaurant Faces Holiday Onslaught!

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Five of the thirty-eight stuffed monkeys in an Orange Tree Imports tote in a bike basket, before deployment

October · The Great Monkey Escape

The Monkeys Are Loose Again

38-Prize Giveaway. One Very Strange October.

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Two Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream cups full of blue plastic tasting spoons on a wooden table at the Monroe Street shop

September · Culinary Commission

We Tried Every Flavor at Chocolate Shoppe So You Don't Have To

The complete tasting record. All 56 flavors, searchable by name.

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September · Tattler Impact Report

The Tattler Prize Patrol Hits the Streets

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October · Honk Watch

Honk Watch! Friday Toots Raise Questions

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September · Neighborhood Listserv

Listserv Finally Justifies Its Existence

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The People’s Fry Award trophy on a table inside The Laurel Tavern in Madison, Wisconsin, beneath the painted Laurel Tavern mural

September · Reader submission

A Reader’s Ode to The Laurel

One reader felt so strongly about the honor that he sent us something longer than a letter.

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October · Field Report

Ethical Crisis Surfaces Yet Again

Routine trip for eggs becomes crisis of personal morality.

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A homemade ninja warrior course strung between trees in a front yard

September · Backyard Athletics

Parenting Arms Race Enters Dangerous New Phase

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MonroeStreetTattler.com. The French Fry Report They Didn’t Want You to Read.

Summer · Culinary Commission

The Monroe Street French Fry Report

The french fry report they didn't want you to read, until now. Four parts, three issues.

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October · Reader submission

Cult Discovered on Monroe Street

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Lola, a grey and white pit bull, wearing duck-print pajamas on a porch

October · Featured Pet

Lola Would Like to Address the Allegations

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The Tattler’s dog water bowl and treat map, showing marked bowls and treat jars along Monroe Street between Glenway Street and Lake Wingra

Neighborhood utility

Official Dog Water Bowl & Treat Map

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September · Field Report

Dads Gone Wild! Shocks Neighborhood

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Sandhill cranes crossing a marked crosswalk on Monroe Street

September · Around the Neighborhood

Rush Hour Miracle: Motorists Stunned

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A hand-lettered FREE HOME-MADE LEMONADE sign stapled to a utility pole on Monroe Street

October · Public Messaging

Young Signmakers Take Control of Public Messaging

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October · Neighborhood

Cat Chaos Grips the Neighborhood

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September · Around the Neighborhood

Rare Celebrity Sighting in Vilas

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August · Around the Neighborhood

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