Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 70. Sunrise is 5:31 AM and sunset 8:11 PM for 14h 39m 59s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 17.8% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Alcohol Licensing Committee meets at 6 PM, and the Library Board meets at…
Demographics
Daily Bread, Demographics, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 4.13.23: Newcomers Account for Most Wisconsin Population Growth Since 2020
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
America, City, Daily Bread, Demographics, Economy
Daily Bread for 8.12.22: Retention is a Dialogue
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will see afternoon showers with a high of 71. Sunrise is 5:58 AM and sunset 8:00 PM for 14h 01m 29s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 99.6% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1981, the IBM Personal Computer is released. So, of the nation, William…
America, Daily Bread, Demographics, Economy
Daily Bread for 8.11.22: National Demographic Estimates Show Youth Population Decline
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 79. Sunrise is 5:57 AM and sunset 8:01 PM for 14h 03m 58s of daytime. The moon is full with 99.7% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets at 4:30 PM. On this day in 1919, the Packers are founded: “On…
Budget, City, Daily Bread, Demographics, Economy, Poverty, School District
Daily Bread for 7.27.22: Brief Implications of Whitewater’s (Socio-Economic) Condition
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 82. Sunrise is 5:42 AM and sunset 8:20 PM for 14h 38m 26s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 1.5% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1974, in the Watergate scandal, the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27…
Budget, City, Daily Bread, Demographics, Economy, Poverty, School District
Daily Bread for 7.26.22: Slides on Whitewater’s (Socio-Economic) Condition
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 80. Sunrise is 5:41 AM and sunset 8:21 PM for 14h 40m 28s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 4.8% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Finance Committee meets at 4:30 PM. On this day in 1948, President Truman signs Executive…
City, Culture, Daily Bread, Demographics, Economy
Daily Bread for 6.1.22: The End of DYKWIA in Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 73. Sunrise is 5:18 AM and sunset 8:27 PM for 15h 08m 37s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 3.7% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1980, Cable News Network (CNN) launches. Every town, big or small, has…
City, Daily Bread, Demographics
Daily Bread for 9.17.21: 2020 Census Data for Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 84. Sunrise is 6:38 AM and sunset 6:59 PM for 12h 21m 45s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 86.6% of its visible disk illuminated. This day in 1787, the Framers at the Constitutional Convention sign their final draft of…
Daily Bread, Demographics, Economy
Daily Bread for 8.17.21: Decline in Trump-Supporting America
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 80. Sunrise is 6:04 AM and sunset 7:52 PM, for 13h 48m 01s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 70.7% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Common Council meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1945, George Orwell’s novella Animal…
Daily Bread, Demographics, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 8.13.21: Wisconsin’s 2020 Census
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 82. Sunrise is 6:00 AM and sunset 7:59 PM, for 13h 58m 20s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 26.3% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1961, East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western…
City, Culture, Demographics, Economy, Education, Local Government, Politics, School District
Local 2021 Races in the Whitewater Area
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Update: this post about local politics, with an optimistic final sentence, was published before the morning and afternoon events in Washington. It has always been true – and always will be true – that what harms the country harms the city; what stains the nation stains the city. Every moment of opposition to Trump and…
Budget, City, Demographics, Government Spending, University, UW System, Wisconsin
UW-Whitewater’s Budgetary Challenges Require a Studied Approach
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Whitewater is a college town. If a college town, then a college: the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. I’ve written about the university now and again. A simple summary of my views would be that Whitewater benefits from having a university, but that the school’s leaders (notably Telfer and Kopper) have failed both individuals and the community.…
Demographics, Diversity
America Grows More Diverse, Integration as Important as Ever
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
William H. Frey writes that The nation is diversifying even faster than predicted, according to new census data: The U.S. Census Bureau has just released its last batch of race-ethnic population estimates in advance of the 2020 census, with data indicating that the national headcount will reveal a more diverse nation than was previously expected. The…
City, Culture, Demographics, Local Government
Quick Observations on Whitewater’s Demographics
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
It’s common in films and books that small towns, even small college towns, are described as homogeneous. There may be a few eccentric characters here or there, but the town so described (and imagined) is seldom a diverse one. Whitewater is more diverse than those places, and diverse in a way that leaves no group…