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Daily Bread for 1.3.22: The Dishonesty of Whitewater’s Local Politics

by JOHN ADAMS • 01/03/2022 • 1 Comment

Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 18. Sunrise is 7:25 AM and sunset 4:34 PM for 9h 08m 38s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 0.8% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1957, the Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. The New…

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How to Build a Better Candidate Forum

by JOHN ADAMS • 03/08/2018 • 3 Comments

Posted originally 2.16.16. Reposted 3.8.18. A private local organization, in the habit of hosting candidate debates forums, may freely follow its national organization’s practices. Fair enough. Whitewater, however, would do better if she adopted better standards. There are two easy ways that Whitewater can make her candidate forums much better. ➤ Release Candidate Statements Before…

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‘Fortunate’

by JOHN ADAMS • 09/14/2017 • Comments

Norman Rockwell wasn’t the finest painter of the twentieth century (to express the matter gently), but at least when he created a painting capturing the spirit of free speech as one of Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms, he understood speech as a right, not a privilege, lucky break, or favor from government. So it is with government,…