Good morning, Whitewater
There are no public meetings scheduled in Whitewater today.
School’s back in session. Tonight, there’s a special meeting of the school board at 6 p.m., in executive session (not a public meeting) regarding a student disciplinary matter.
In brighter events, there’s a cross country banquet at 5:30 p.m. today at the high school, and a 6:30 p.m. music parents’ meeting, also at the high school.
The National Weather Service forecast calls for a sunny day with a high temperature of 74 degrees. The Farmers’ Almanac ends its first prediction series for November with a forecast that it will be “Stormy for the Great Lakes.”
Last Week’s better predictions: Basically even — more detail from the NWS, but otherwise similar in general if not particular.
In Wisconsin History on this date, in 1936, from the Wisconsin Historical Society comes an unsurprising election result, considering the year: FDR carried Rock County, then a Republican stronghold:
On this date Rock County voted Democratic in a presidential election for the first time in 74 years. The county’s 17,987 votes for FDR eclipsed 14,689 for Republican Alf Landon. Janesville and Beloit both voted for Roosevelt, who won in the largest national election landslide in history.
(How big did Roosevelt win nationally? He won slightly over sixty percent of the popular vote, and all but two states’ electoral votes. Only Reagan has carried more states — all but Minnesota, in 1984.)
