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Causes and Monuments

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Early one morning, while you’re in a coffee shop, a woman walks through the door, orders an Americano, and sits down at your table.  She sips ever so tentatively, while poring over a local newspaper.  She turns to you and asks, “Do you know how I could leave my mark on this community?” You’re not…

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Whitewater’s Independent Merchants: Supporting Small Bricks Over Bytes

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A quick summary of my views on business would be to say that (1) private markets are typically superior to government regulation, subsidies, or game-rigging, (2) government should be impartial to different kinds of businesses, (3) government ‘business’ or ‘development’ efforts are often self-promoting efforts of officials, bureaucrats, and hangers-on who are parasitic of public…

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Whitewater as a Youthful Town

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One hears that CNN Money has a story that lists Whitewater as one of their youngest towns in America. See, 25 youngest small towns in America. Whitewater comes in at number eight on the list (a typo lists us as six), with a population of 14,470 and a median age of 22.0 years. A sharp…

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What Standards for Whitewater?

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This post is a companion to one from yesterday on rights, entitled, How Many Rights for Whitewater? Whitewater is a place of great natural beauty, hundreds of years of indigenous and settled living, and a quaint, small-town scene. If residents of Whitewater should have the same rights as those elsewhere in Wisconsin and America –…

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Join Downtown Whitewater’s August Downtown Cleanup, Saturday, August 24th from 8 AM to Noon

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Here’s your chance to be part of a group that’s keeping Whitewater beautiful — Join Downtown Whitewater for its August Downtown Cleanup to welcome UWW students and their families back to town When: Saturday, August 24th from 8 am to Noon. Where: Meet at Discover Whitewater (150 West Main Street). We’ll be sweeping the streets…