Friday in Whitewater will see a mix of clouds and sun with a high of 48. Sunrise is 6:35 and sunset is 4:41 for 10 hours 6 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning crescent with 7.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1947, Meet the Press, the longest-running television program in history, makes its debut on NBC Television.
The last gerrymandered legislative maps in Wisconsin are for this state’s congressional representatives. There are two ways these maps might be made more equitable: through action by the Wisconsin Supreme Court or legislative action by the incoming Democratic majorities in the Wisconsin Legislature.
Democrats will also consider a mid-decade redistricting effort to redraw the state’s congressional maps, where the party flipped two GOP seats on Tuesday.
Neither Neubauer nor Hesselbein in interviews with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel fully committed to pursuing new congressional maps, but Hesselbein said they have to “keep [it] on the table” and Neubauer said they’ll look to other states as they decide how to move forward.
In addition, Hesselbein said, Democrats will have “16 years of problems that we’re going to have to solve, of things being underfunded.”
Wisconsin’s eight congressional districts in the coming Congress will be split evenly between Democrats and Republicans, 4-4. Wisconsin’s First and Third Congressional Districts went for Democrats even under the gerrymandered maps — redistricting is likely to make those maps more equitable (and politically safer) for Democrats.
I’d be surprised if congressional redistricting did more than that — the remaining four districts, however configured, would remain red-favoring under any reasonable boundaries. Redistricting would simply rectify inequitably drawn boundaries in the First and Third Districts.
Of Bryan Steil, the outgoing congressman from the 1st District: Has there ever been an emptier suit in Congress? Derrick Van Orden, defeated in the 3rd Congressional District, was at least plain — however objectionably — in his devotion to Trumpism. What of Steil? A devotion to crypto? An easy touch for business cronyism? Hoping big PAC money would see him through another election when most constituents had no idea where he stood except with his country club friends in D.C. Thin head, thin accomplishments, fat friends — a waste of a congressional seat.
We could have done better, and one reasonably hopes we soon will.
Thursday in Whitewater will see occasional showers with a high of 53. Sunrise is 6:34 and sunset is 4:42 for 10 hours 8 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning crescent with 13.4 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1872, in defiance of the law at that time, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time and is later fined $100.
When a major event transpires in a community, it’s reasonable to ask two questions: What are the community’s needs now and what role will one play in addressing those needs?
Perhaps there’s a preliminary question: Was this a major event? For Wisconsin politics, the answer is undoubtedly that 11.3.2026 was a major event. The former chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, Mike Tate, is quoted in the Journal Sentinel this morning describing the recent election:
I remember standing next to a colleague who had been through all of these wars going back to 2010, and I don’t think there’s ever been anything like this in my career or in my lifetime…. It’s 2010 in reverse.
Yes, that’s right. Tate was less effective than his successors (notably less effective than Ben Wickler), yet he has assessed the significance of the election accurately. Whatever comes next, what came before from Walker locally and from Trump within the state has been brought to ruin. There will be Republicans and Democrats, of course. There will also be those who hold tenaciously and ferociously to Trump’s brand of authoritarian populism. Most officeholders in the state, however, will look beyond the Walker and Trump approaches.
That leaves those of us who are politically or ideologically oriented to assess what we believe matters for Whitewater and our own particular approach within this beautiful city. One can see that some of these assessments — without regard to an express perspective of ideology — were made by respondents to a recent community survey. (Note well, Whitewater: Scattered criticisms of that survey’s methodology were deficient; the survey was methodologically sound. On this point, seeWhitewater’s Community Survey.)
In my own case, my list of concerns is most easily found in posts that present ‘what ails, or what heals’ or in my annual list of the scariest and most reassuring Whitewater developments over the prior year.
This libertarian blogger is still uncertain how these statewide political developments might reshape FREE WHITEWATER‘s latest lists. (At another, younger site, with a focus expressly on libertarianism, I’m still sorting priorities out. My best guess over there: a reckoning over how and where much of libertarianism failed in the face of authoritarianism, with the exception of those few of us who remained faithful to our principles as Never Trump libertarians. Then, suggestions for the reconstruction of our ideology. Those are not local topics, but they are pressing ones for those of us who, so to speak, kept the faith.)
In all of these matters, alongside so many others in this city and beyond who have been true to their worthy beliefs, one can be certain of this: If we have come through so many challenges in the years since the Great Recession set our contemporary times in motion, we will certainly not be yielding now.
It’s diligent and zealous, so best as we can achieve it, for so far ahead as the human eye can see.
Stanford University researchers have discovered that dying coral can be revived through contact with healthy coral in a lab. The finding could help scientists find new ways to restore coral reefs threatened by warming ocean waters.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 64. There is beauty in the rain. Sunrise is 6:33 and sunset is 4:43 for 10 hours 10 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning crescent with 22.4 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
The Whitewater School Board is scheduled to meet at 4:30 PM.
On this day in 1960, Jane Goodall observes chimpanzee tool use at Gombe in what is now Tanzania, part of her landmark discovery that chimpanzees make and use tools.
Below are the unofficial statewide and local results for yesterday’s elections, drawing on the tabulations from the Associated Press via the New York Times and from Walworth, Jefferson, and Rock Counties. Whitewater totals are votes from the City of Whitewater proper. Percentages are of the two-candidate or issue vote. Vote totals are current through post time.
STATEWIDE OFFICES:
GOVERNOR
STATE TOTAL
STATE PERCENTAGE
CROWLEY
1,438,721
54.1%
TIFFANY
1,221,668
45.9%
ATTY GENERAL
STATE TOTAL
STATE PERCENTAGE
KAUL
1,448,278
54.7%
TONEY
1,198,329
45.3%
SEC. STATE
STATE TOTAL
STATE PERCENTAGE
ZAMARRIPA
1,335,494
52.7%
SCHROEDER
1,199,558
47.3%
TREASURER
STATE TOTAL
STATE PERCENTAGE
XIONG
1,360,176
51.9%
LEIBER
1,261,992
48.1%
WISCONSIN SENATE 15TH DISTRICT:
DISTRICT TOTAL
DISTRICT PERCENTAGE
SPREITZER
41,249
60.2%
FLEMING
27,304
39.8%
WISCONSIN ASSEMBLY 43RD DISTRICT:
DISTRICT TOTAL
DISTRICT PERCENTAGE
BROWN
15,461
58.8%
MCGRAW
10,848
41.2%
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE:
The WisDems won both chambers, giving them a trifecta: Assembly (53 D, 46 R) and Senate (18 D, 15 R)
WUSD REFERENDUM:
DISTRICT TOTAL
DISTRICT PERCENTAGE
YES
3,398
47.5%
NO
3,763
52.5%
WISCONSIN 1ST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT:
DISTRICT TOTAL
DISTRICT PERCENTAGE
STEIL
146,885
48.0%
BERMAN
158,839
52.0%
A good night — and last night was a very good night — calls for a cat video. Here’s a lion quenching its thirst:
Tuesday in Whitewater will see mild temperatures and light rain with a high of 68. Sunrise is 6:31 and sunset is 4:44 for 10 hours 13 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning crescent with 30.8 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 2014, One World Trade Center officially opens in New York City, replacing the Twin Towers after they were destroyed during the September 11 attacks.
In 2022’s Wisconsin gubernatorial election, over 2.6 million Wisconsinites cast ballots. There are likely to be at least that many ballots, if not more, cast by the end of today. Our fellow residents will have voted by absentee ballot, in person before Election Day, or at the polls today.
Those joining them will be among the vast numbers across this state and nation defending institutions of free, representative government.
The weather will be mild today, and the trip to the polls an easy one.
America’s great civic tradition awaits and welcomes us.
Meteor showers, a close pairing of Mars and Jupiter, a Voyager 1 milestone, and a November supermoon.
The Southern Taurids peak around November 5, followed by the Northern Taurids around November 12. Both offer occasional bright fireballs, even though only a handful of meteors per hour are expected under ideal conditions.
On November 15 and 16, look southeast before sunrise to see Jupiter and Mars appear just 1.2 degrees apart.
The Leonid meteor shower offers another chance to catch shooting stars before dawn on November 17 and 18, after the Moon sets.
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft reaches a historic one light-day milestone. Join the Shine Bright for Voyager’s Light-Day activation on November 17. Learn more at nasa.gov/voyager.
And on November 24, watch a full supermoon rise in the east around sunset, the first of three consecutive supermoons – in November, December, and January.
Monday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 62. Sunrise is 6:30 and sunset is 4:45 for 10 hours 15 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning crescent with 41.2 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets at 5:30 PM.
On this day in 1947, in California, designer Howard Hughes makes the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the “Spruce Goose”), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built until Scaled Composites rolled out their Stratolaunch in May 2017.
Writing on Bluesky, Prof. Mark Copelovitch of UW-Madison replied to the idea of reaching out to others (in his example, other economists) who are vastly different ideologically:
The problem with this entire “talking across difference” approach to politics is that it assumes a shared consensus about democracy that no longer exists b/w the 2 main [American] political parties. You don’t need to have lunch with people who don’t believe in free elections, equal rights, & the rule of law.
The economists Justin [Wolfers] mentions here are all on the pro-democracy side of the divide, regardless of their economic views. In other words, there are table stakes that are the ante to sitting down at the table & discussing ideological differences over tax policy or regulation or interest rates.
You’re not going to learn anything by sitting down to lunch with Kevin Hassett or Peter Navarro, other than they have gone all in on lying & fascism. So again, you need to take a step back & make clear that there are prior assumptions & table stakes antes about who one should sit down to lunch with.
Indeed. The bipartisan man, the balancer of competing interests, in our time places on equal footing just positions with unjust ones, sound reasoning with unsound reasoning, and the general interest with special interests.
In an earlier time, when both sides of a dispute were reasonable, balancing may have made some sense.
No longer. The just position now competes with unjust, malevolent positions. Those who cannot see this clearly cannot see matters of importance clearly.
What did people eat and drink 4,000 years ago? New finds shed light on life in Mesopotamia. Archaeologists working at Tell Muhammad in Baghdad have uncovered new evidence of daily life in ancient Mesopotamia, including possible bread and beer production facilities. The site dates mainly to the era of Hammurabi, around 2000 to 1600 BC.
Sunday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 68. Sunrise is 6:29 and sunset is 4:47 for 10 hours 18 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning gibbous with 53.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Halloween is a fine holiday, creative and festive, both. We at the House of Dissenting Opinion and many other houses in Whitewater had a delightful time meeting so many trick-or-treaters. Ordinary people, all of us, celebrating in every part of this beautiful small town. It’s one of the happy times of the year and, along with Thanksgiving, one of the many reasons Fall is the Best Season™.
And yet, and yet, these are troubled times for America. At Mar-a-Lago, however, the host and his guests are carrying on as though the wars of trade and of violence that that very host has inflicted on this planet mean nothing. On the contrary, he and his guests celebrated the night away.
There were cheetah and zebra stripes on the walls and tables. Women wore sequined leotards and elaborate headdresses, and one couple flocked around in bright-feathered costumes of jungle birds. Then President Trump arrived.
“I came as Donald Trump,” he said, outfitted in his standard red tie and navy suit. “I didn’t have time to get — people spent a lot of time and money. Rich people. They spent nine hours getting ready. I had 10 minutes, so I came as Donald Trump.”
Such was the scene Saturday night, when hundreds gathered in the ballroom at Mar-a-Lago to celebrate Halloween with the president. The theme was the jungle, if an opulent one.
[…]
“Look at all my rich members,” he told reporters. “They spent all day getting ready. Look at these guys.”
He added: “These are the biggest guys on Wall Street.”
AI companies are getting seemingly unlimited cash while the spigot is open. But as Heard on the Street’s columnist Jonathan Weil explains, that tap could turn off at any time.
How odd, and strange, that a member of the Whitewater Common Council, so very proud of his suggestion to hold occasional meetings in the community, sought to reduce the number of polling places for the community. This proposal first came up as a future agenda item on 4.20.26, when that council member began his suggestion by pleading, “don’t shoot the messenger…” That council member made no effort to say for whom he was a mere messenger. One would have hoped that a middle-aged man would speak on his own behalf, or at least disclose for whom he was a conduit. It has been, after all, a few generations since America relied on message carriers, although they were once quite common —
Telegraph messenger. Location: Birmingham, Alabama. Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer.
2.Challenges to Residents’ Freedom from Interference. A just society both accords peaceful individuals freedom from government or private interference and also ensures equal access to the public square. At a recent meeting, one saw calumnies from a member of the government wrongly balanced against the rights of peaceful free assembly. SeeA Norwegian Expression That’s Actually Japanese and The Public Square Is for All (Including Whitewater Pride).
It is true, and commendable, that beforehand some members of the government worked diligently and thoroughly researched the requirements of the law. It is also true, however, that this discussion on 10.20.26 was sadly and memorably misguided. Residents do not owe conversations to those committed to their very denigration and disparagement. Residents should not owe repeated justifications for free assembly to the government, or to those factions by which some in office are either enthralled or intimidated.
It is right for the government to proclaim, as some of its members soon may, a general tolerance. Those proclamations are welcome and supportively received. There remains, however, this underlying truth: most important is what government does and what it refrains from doing.
1. Bad-Faith Arguments. What does one see again and again in this city except the bad-faith claims and rationalizations of special- interest men who offer weak justifications for their positions? This ilk fits our era nicely: they’ve much in common with the residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and 1100 South Ocean Boulevard. These gentlemen came up at a time when justifying their views intellectually was unnecessary because they achieved their status through social coercion. Their arguments, often obvious misstatements and cherry-picking, amount to no better than DYKWIA?SeeThe Special-Interest Hierarchy of a Small Town and The Special-Interest Hierarchy of a Small Town (Adjacent Support).
MOST REASSURING:
5.Look and Feel. By themselves, I’d not typically contend that look and feel are more than consequences of other fundamental achievements. This municipal government, however, is seemingly tireless in improving the look and feel of the city, both through simple aesthetics and in community activities. From films by the lake and moonlit events by the same to better streets and even colorful utility boxes, someone at city hall (itself a sadly bland building) works hard to make the city look better, and so feel better, than she has in years. Our lakes, too, are improved in ways many residents doubted they could be. These cumulative improvements are not accidents — they are the products of planning and implementation.
4.Analyses and Reports. Now, this libertarian blogger is not the city’s finance director, or even one of the experienced consultants who sometimes present analyses to the community. Nor am I, as perhaps the city’s finance director is, toiling away in the depths of our city hall with an abacus and chalk slate. (For myself, I still have the slide rule imported from then-West Germany that my father gave me when I was in school. Beautiful and functional.)
It is more than enough to know — from one’s own perspective and different field — that this city’s finance team, and those invited others who appear before the lectern, analyze and present well. They do. In so doing, they encourage others to do more, to meet a higher standard than they otherwise would. One hopes that they keep going, while the rest of us do our level best to keep up.
3.A New Ethics Ordinance. Whitewater slowly awakens from decades of cronyism and special-interest manipulations. Standards must apply to all. A member of the old Community Development Authority once said that he and his cronies had ‘our tradition.’ Yes, indeed: a tradition that reminds one of a paraphrase of St. Augustine: the supposed virtues of those times were merely shiny vices. There’s more to say in favor of a new ordinance, but this most of all: the prosperity of this community for her residents depends on fairly and equally applied ethical standards. Whitewater has always been beautiful naturally and architecturally. There is an even greater beauty in becoming a modern, meritocratic American town.
2. More Development.Now, despite every monkey wrench yesteryear’s men have thrown in the path of progress, economic development in this city continues at a solid pace. This city cannot prosper as an insect in amber. (Then again, even insects in amber do not survive as insects in amber as they’re already dead.) American towns — part of the most productive and advanced society in human history — cannot stand still. Those who merely tread water eventually grow too weak to remain above the waves. We are, so to speak, happily citizens in a nation of swimmers. Development brings opportunity and opportunity itself brings still more opportunity.
1. More Normal. Some of our residents feel these reassuring improvements are unsettling. First and foremost, these changes would have been less unsettling had they been made many years — even decades — earlier. A delayed remedy is no less necessary for the delay. On the contrary, it’s ever more necessary with each passing year. These significant, positive, reassuring developments bring what normal feels like. Uncomfortable for some at first, but critical for the health of the whole community (a place not of sixteen but of sixteen thousand).
Again, as last year — although a tragic optimist, I’m yet an optimist. What has been good in Whitewater over the last year has been very good. We would do well to keep this course.
Friday in Whitewater will see a mix of clouds and sun with a high of 58. Sunrise is 7:26 and sunset is 5:49 for 10 hours 23 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning gibbous with 75.4 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1941, President Roosevelt approves $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations (one of many approvals).
The Wisconsin gubernatorial candidates have taken opposite approaches to campaigning with their running mates, using the lieutenant governor picks in ways to strengthen their reach to voters, or lack thereof.
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, the Democratic governor candidate, has described his running mate, Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski, as his “future work bestie” and an “integral” part of his campaign. Godlewski’s name is also planted underneath Crowley’s name on campaign yard signs, merchandise and his official website.
[…]
But Republican governor candidate Congressman Tom Tiffany’s campaign yard signs, merchandise and website fail to feature the name of his running mate, David Varnam. Varnam upset Will Martin in the August Republican lieutenant governor primary despite Martin [boasting] the state party endorsement.
Varnam, the former Lancaster mayor and member of the Common Council who lost in the 2022 Republican primary for lieutenant governor, has been at 14 of the 88 events Tiffany has held from Aug.
[…]
Crowley, though, has done the opposite of keeping Godlewski in the shadows. A Crowley spokesman said that since Aug. 12, Crowley and Godlewski have hosted and appeared together at “over 30 events,” and Godlewski has hosted Crowley events on his behalf.
As of Oct. 29, Crowley and Godlewski are in the midst of a 10-day, 40-stop bus tour together, stretching roughly 3,000 miles across the state.
If, however improbably, Tom Tiffany is elected governor, he’ll place Varnam at an empty table with a folding chair in one of the Capitol building’s darkest alcoves.
If a running mate doesn’t have a prime spot now, he or she never will. Anything else is something less, a waste of a candidacy and a harbinger of weak and dysfunctional leadership.
David Crowley and Sarah Godlewski are the better candidates, and Crowley-Godlewski is the better team for Wisconsin.
Deep in the Mexican jungle, award-winning National Geographic photojournalist Anand Varma is on assignment to photograph the continent’s rarest creatures: carnivorous bats. For centuries, their lives have remained a mystery, but Varma and a world-renowned bat biologist are teaming up to uncover their secrets with never-before-seen images.
Thursday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with scattered showers and a high of 69. Sunrise is 7:25 and sunset is 5:51 for 10 hours 26 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning gibbous with 83.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1929, it’s Black Tuesday when the New York Stock Exchange crashes, ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and eventually contributing to the Great Depression.
A reliable gauge of inflation, the Personal Consumption Expenditures index, rose again in September:
Consumer prices accelerated in September, which could bolster the case for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates in December after forgoing an increase this week.
Prices, as measured by the Personal Consumption Expenditures index, increased 0.5 percent in September from a month earlier and 3.6 percent compared with the same time last year, according to a report released on Thursday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The pickup in prices provided further confirmation that inflation is running hotter than Fed officials would like. Their target, as measured by P.C.E., is to keep the annual increase near 2 percent over time.
“Core” prices, which exclude more volatile categories like food and energy, jumped 3.1 percent in September annually and rose 0.3 percent from a month earlier. That month-over-month increase was also 0.3 percent in August.
[…]
A big factor pushing up prices this year has been a severe energy crunch created by the war with Iran. Choked-off energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz sent oil prices soaring, which have rippled across the U.S. economy.
Well. Those who understood the cost of tariffs and war never believed, and never could have believed, that prices would be lower under this federal administration.
Trump's affordability message: "You could even come to Mar-a-Lago. You'll be my guest. The problem is that for $5,000 the most you'll be able to buy is a hamburger and maybe a small dessert. I'm not even sure you could buy that! No, don't go there. It's not a good place if you're price conscious."
Wednesday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 74. Sunrise is 7:24 and sunset is 5:52 for 10 hours 28 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning gibbous with 92% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis ends and Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba. (Other elements of the deal remained secret and an American naval quarantine of offensive weapons to Cuba remained in force until November 20.)
In mid-October, at a meeting of the Whitewater Common Council, the city heard a presentation on a community survey. The document, completed in September and presented in October, appears immediately below.
Residents can review the lengthy survey and come to their own conclusions.
In my own case, an initial question presents itself: is the survey methodology sound?
Yes, it’s sound.
Indeed, fundamental — rational, reliable — principles of sampling are readily available in college mathematics courses, including courses for non-mathematicians. In fact, competitive American high schools offer basic statistical concepts in Algebra II courses or separately in AP Statistics courses for college-bound students. (Of the AP Statistics program and exam: “Selecting methods for collecting or analyzing data; Describing patterns, trends, associations, and relationships in data; Using probability and simulation to describe probability distributions and define uncertainty in statistical inference; Using statistical reasoning to draw appropriate conclusions and justify claims.”) These programs are both pre-college programs; college offerings in these principles are available across our nation.
However, the easiest claim to make is that the survey methodology is intellectually sound. It is. The survey’s creator, the ETC Institute, describes this method:
A seven-page survey, accompanied by a cover letter and a postage-paid return envelope, was mailed to a randomly selected sample of households in Whitewater. The cover letter outlined the survey’s purpose and encouraged recipients to complete and return it by mail or participate online.
To ensure the integrity of the random sample, respondents who completed the survey online were asked to provide their home address, which was matched against the original sample file. Responses from individuals who were not included in the random sample were maintained separately and were not included in the statistically valid results. To further boost participation, ETC Institute conducted follow-up outreach to sampled households and promoted the survey through targeted social media advertisements on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.
The goal of the survey was to obtain at least 500 completed responses. This target was exceeded, with a total of 512 residents completing the survey. The results for the random sample of 512 residents have a precision of at least ±4.3% at the 95% level of confidence.
This is an appropriate sample size for a survey of a community of Whitewater’s population. (The adequacy of a probability sample does not depend on obtaining responses from some large percentage of the population.) There is nothing novel or controversial about these principles. As I’ve noted, they are taught in introductory statistics courses, including those available to high school and college students.
Former students, who remember a course in college on these topics — including non-mathematicians like me — will recall established formulas to determine the adequacy of a sample size. (The formulas will also bring back, perhaps, difficult memories of studying for exams in the subject. My apologies — watch a few cat videos and you’ll feel better again.) I’ve gone searching online for memory refreshers. Here’s one from Khan Academy (a site that did not even exist when I was in school — we had to use books!): Khan Academy, Determining sample size based on confidence and margin of error. (The online video looks like it’s for AP Statistics prep, by the way.) The sample size ETC took is easily adequate.
These are enough properly gathered responses for a city of our size. Note particularly that, among those identifying as ‘university-related,’ 120 respondents identified themselves as alumni, and 37 as parents or family members of students. Those responses alone account for 157 respondents, none of whom should be excluded from the resident population because of that relationship. While some identified student respondents did answer the survey (22), university-related non-student residents represent a far larger number of respondents than current student respondents. (Contentions along the lines of university affiliation = student = not a resident = discard the response are, themselves, a failure of understanding. My claim is not that the other 22 student respondents are not residents. It’s simply that excluding residents based on their university connection, whatever it may be, would be a failure of an adequate survey method. The survey is, after all, about residents.)
More particularly: excluding university-related residents from a sample would be as erroneous — if not more so by sample size — as excluding those with unfounded claims about survey methodology.
The survey is lengthy; one can find points with which one agrees or disagrees. I find the results neither wholly supportive of city officials nor wholly critical of them. An adequate sample of residents expressed satisfaction with some services while expressing dissatisfaction with other aspects of life here. That’s about what anyone would reasonably expect, and that is what the survey reliably and soundly reveals.
At least 30 people have died and many more are feared injured after two high-speed trains collided in Toledo province in central Spain. Guardia Civil aerial footage showed a derailed train with at least one carriage remaining on an elevated section of track. It comes nine months after a collision between high-speed trains belonging to the same operators on the same line, which 46 people were killed.
Spain’s state rail infrastructure authority said services between Madrid and the southern region of Andalucía had been suspended ‘following a rear-end collision between two trains’ on Wednesday morning.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 66. Sunrise is 7:23 and sunset is 5:54 for 10 hours 31 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning gibbous with 96.8% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Finance Committee meets at 5 PM and the Aquatic Center Committee at 5:30 PM.
There’s a campaign question in Wisconsin about which gubernatorial candidate opposes data centers more. That’s because data centers are unpopular:
Data centers have become a major risk for the politicians who support them, with less than two weeks left before the midterms.
Half of Americans now oppose data centers being built within three miles of their home, according to new results from The POLITICO Poll, conducted by PF Global. That’s the highest opposition since POLITICO began tracking Americans’ views of the sprawling technology hubs and nearly double the share of people who said the same back in January (28%).
This libertarian blogger would leave all of this as a local issue, without a statewide or national moratorium. If communities wanted these centers, they could have them; if communities opposed them, then they wouldn’t have a data center nearby. Opposition is a legitimate, rational local choice.
By contrast, there is someone who thinks that opposition is evidence of ignorance or stupidity:
“The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor,” Trump wrote. “If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let Data Reign.”
People should decide using their own sense of what’s best for the communities in which they live. So, the considered judgments of residents themselves, or the opinion of this savvy Florida gentleman?
Here is video of that 10.27.1961 Saturn launch, the first launch in a family of rockets that would take America to the moon:
Views of the Saturn I SA-1 launch, on October 27, 1961 from Cape Canaveral, Florida
S-1 was the first flight of the Saturn I space launch vehicle, the first in the Saturn family, and first mission of the American Apollo program.
The only live stage was the S-I first stage. The flight was designed to test the structure of the launch vehicle during a suborbital flight using the nose cone from a Jupiter rocket.
The rocket reached a height of 136.5 km and impacted 345.7 km down range from the launch site in the Atlantic Ocean.
