Excuses made on behalf of Whitewater’s publicly-funded Innovation Center and Tech Park are growing increasingly absurd, and are easily refuted. Each attempt of officials to justify the project only shows, yet again, what a wasteful scheme it is. Serious and thorough examination of tech parks like this shows they’re money-draining failures. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel…
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City, Press
Brunner in the Daily Union‘s “No Input at Budget Hearing.”
by JOHN ADAMS •
Earlier, in a post entitled, “Come On, Whitewater! Stop Disappointing Your Politicians and Bureaucrats (Part 2),” I considered some of Whitewater City Manager Brunner’s remarks on low turnout at budget listening session. The session was covered at the Daily Union, in a story entitled, “No Input at Budget Hearing.” In this post, a few follow-up…
City, Police
Spear, Coan, and Brunner
by JOHN ADAMS •
First, Spear. Our recently-resigned municipal judge, Steven Spear, was charged in March with disorderly conduct, following a criminal investigation as recounted in The Week: Whitewater Municipal Judge Steven Spear was found guilty Wednesday of disorderly conduct, a civil violation stemming from allegations he forcibly tried to kiss a female secretary and masturbated in front of…
Boosterism, CDA, Corporate Welfare, Daily Bread, Economy, Foxconn, Innovation Center/Tech Park, Local Government, Marketing, Misplaced Priorities, Poverty, Recession
Daily Bread for 9.5.22: The Grandiose
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Labor Day in Whitewater will be party sunny with high of 74. Sunrise is 6:24 AM and sunset 7:21 PM for 12h 56m 42s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 69.5% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1942, the Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major…
Daily Bread, Elections, Fraud, Presidential race 2020, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 2.2.22: The Full List of Wisconsin’s Fake Trump Electors
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be cloudy sunny with a high of 17. Sunrise is 7:07 AM and sunset 5:10 PM for 10h 03m 10s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 2.4% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Common Council meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1913, Grand Central Terminal…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 6.14.20
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of seventy. Sunrise is 5:15 AM and sunset 8:35 PM, for 15h 19m 24s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 38.1% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1855, Robert M. La Follette is born. Recommended for reading in…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 6.8.20
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of eighty-nine. Sunrise is 5:16 AM and sunset 8:32 PM, for 15h 16m 01s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 91.3% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater Unified School District Board meets via audiovisual conferencing at 6 PM, and the…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 2.24.18
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of thirty-nine. Sunrise is 6:36 AM and sunset 5:38 PM, for 11h 02m 00s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 63.6% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the {tooltip}four hundred seventy-first day.{end-texte}Days since Trump’s election, with 11.9.16 as the…
Charity, City, Good Ideas
The Whitewater Community Foundation’s First Annual Campaign
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Please see a news release about charitable work in our small city — best wishes to all who are supporting the campaign – Whitewater Community Foundation is concluding its first ever Annual Campaign Thank you to everyone who donated! We reached our modest goal of $50,000, and the donations are still rolling in! Thank you to…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, University
Marnocha’s Return
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
I posted last week that Randy Marnocha, formerly a UW-Whitewater administrator, is back as interim athletic director following the demotion of Amy Edmonds. See, from this website on 10.14.16, UW-Whitewater’s Interim Athletic Director. The issue on campus is not simply whether this or that person will hold office, but whether the school will produce an administration…
City, Elections, School District, Walworth County
Local Election Recap
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Local elections affecting Whitewater went about as one might have expected. I’d guess there were, in the end, no surprises. There were three uncontested races for Common Council (Allen, Binnie, Langness), and two for the Whitewater Unified School District (Brunner, Stewart). That leaves two contested races in the immediate area: a Common Council race between…
City, Culture, Local Government, Newspapers, School District, University
Whitewater’s Mentoring Gap
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Looking back ten years (or nine in the case of UW-Whitewater), one finds at the helm of Whitewater’s public institutions leaders who so very much embodied Old Whitewater: Steinhaus, Brunner, Coan, Telfer (beginning in ’07). They were the perfect representatives of Old Whitewater, where Old Whitewater is an attitude, not an age: narrow, grandiose, mediocre, producing…
WGTB, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN
Local Isn’t Local
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Post 44 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. Last week I posted a video explanation from Whitewater City Manager Cameron Clapper about a digester-energy project. At the…
City, Health, Waste Digesters, WGTB, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN
Question Bin
by JOHN ADAMS • • 4 Comments
Post 6 in a series. A list of questions, updated as new ones arise, from When Green Turns Brown. Find this post, and you’ll have found all the questions from the entire series as they’re added . (Every question in this series has a unique number, assigned consecutively based on when it was asked. All…