Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 65. Sunrise is 5:29 AM and sunset 8:13 PM for 14h 44m 00s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 5.5% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Park Board meets at 5:30 PM. On this day in 1673, Louis Jolliet, Father…
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America, City, Economy, Health, Local Government, Opioids
Opioid Crisis : Great Recession :: Dust Bowl : Great Depression
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
It’s a loose analogy (yet a useful one) to say that the opioid crisis is to the Great Recession as the Dust Bowl was to the Great Depression. These deep economic downturns did not cause, respectively, either the Dust Bowl or the opioid crisis, but each downturn did exacerbate the severity of its coincident calamity.…
Economy, Poverty
Child Poverty from the Great Recession
by JOHN ADAMS •
Uncategorized
Patrolling the Downtown in Summer During a Great Recession
by JOHN ADAMS •
In our small town, with the added needs of customers at cafés during the summer, there is no reason leaders of our police department could not patrol regularly in the summer. If we are short-staffed, then those who lead might regularly walk through our downtown. To whom much is given, much is expected. Not the…
Bad Ideas, Boosterism, CDA, Corporate Welfare, Development, Economy, Planning, Poverty, WEDC
Declines, Recessions, and Rhetoric
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
While yesterday was a bad day for the financial markets, it’s the underlying – and troubling – fundamental condition of the economy that matters far more. Places like Whitewater, that adopted business special interests’ “if-you-build-it-they-will-come” approach despite increasing poverty and stagnation in household and individual incomes, are especially vulnerable to a downturn. Market Declines. Steven…
Economy, Government Spending
Reason.tv: Where are the Jobs? The Parallels between Today and the Great Depression
by JOHN ADAMS •
Reason considers our economic situation today and compares it with one from the ’30s. I don’t think the New Deal brought private jobs back, but I will say this much for FDR (as I have before): his New Dealers cared more about results than any local official hawking an empty idea like a so-called ‘Innovation…
Development, Economy, Planning
Richard Florida Discusses the Great Reset of Urban Development in Economic Downturns
by JOHN ADAMS •
Richard Florida, author of The Great Reset, discusses how this recession may change American life as did the depression of the 1870 and the Great Depression. Florida is interested in national trends, and especially the great cities of America. He contends that transportation infrastructure was, and may yet, be a good investment. Nonetheless, he acknowledges…
City, Daily Bread, Local Government
Daily Bread for 8.21.23: From Government, Failure is Both Loss and Distraction
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 83. Sunrise is 6:08 AM and sunset 7:47 PM for 13h 38m 44s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 23.2% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater Common Council and Whitewater Unified District School Board meet at 6 PM.…
City, Daily Bread, Housing, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 7.3.23: Wisconsin Home Prices Have More than Doubled over Last Decade
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 88. Sunrise is 5:21 AM and sunset 8:36 PM for 15h 14m 55s of daytime. The moon is full with 100% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Independence Holiday events continue today at the Cravath Lakefront with a carnival. On this day in…
City, Daily Bread, Economy, Employment
Daily Bread for 6.2.23: The May Jobs Report (and How to Think About These Big National Numbers)
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will see afternoon clouds and scattered thundershowers with a high of 88. Sunrise is 5:18 AM and sunset 8:27 PM for 15h 09m 31s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 96.8% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1924, President Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act…
Daily Bread, Government Spending
Daily Bread for 4.14.23: Free Rides Aren’t Free Rides
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
City, Daily Bread, Economy, Health
Daily Bread for 12.7.22: The Need for Fundamental Care
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be foggy in the morning with a high of 40. Sunrise is 7:12 AM and sunset 4:20 PM for 9h 08m 11s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 99.6% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater School Board’s Policy Review Committee meets at 9 AM. On this…
City, Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 11.14.22: What Ails, What Heals
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be increasingly cloudy with a high of 39. Sunrise is 6:46 AM and sunset 4:32 PM for 9h 45m 28s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 67.9% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets at 6 PM. On this day in 1889, pioneering female journalist Nellie…
City, Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 10.28.22: Whitewater Changed, All the Rest is Responding Accordingly
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 59. Sunrise is 7:25 AM and sunset 5:51 PM for 10h 26m 49s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 12.1% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis ends and Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the…