Thursday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 53. Sunrise is 6:44 and sunset is 4:33 for 9 hours 48 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 36.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1956, the U.S. Supreme Court affirms a lower court ruling in Browder v. Gayle 142 F. Supp. 707 (M.D. Ala. 1956), aff’d, 352 U.S. 903 (1956), that invalidated Alabama laws requiring segregated buses, thus ending the Montgomery bus boycott:
On 13 November 1956, while [Dr. Martin Luther] King was in the courthouse being tried on the legality of the boycott’s carpools, a reporter notified him that the U.S. Supreme Court had just affirmed the District Court’s decision on Browder v. Gayle. King addressed a mass meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church the next evening, saying that the decision was “a reaffirmation of the principle that separate facilities are inherently unequal, and that the old Plessy Doctrine of separate but equal is no longer valid, either sociologically or legally” (Papers 3:425).
On 17 December 1956, the Supreme Court rejected city and state appeals to reconsider their decision, and three days later the order for integrated buses arrived in Montgomery. On 20 December 1956 King and the Montgomery Improvement Association voted to end the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott. In a statement that day, King said: “The year-old protest against city buses is officially called off, and the Negro citizens of Montgomery are urged to return to the buses tomorrow morning on a non-segregated basis” (Papers 3:486–487). The Montgomery buses were integrated the following day.
A leading investment bank has delivered an arresting diagnosis of the U.S. economy: the labor market, long a pillar of resilience, may be in real trouble. In their latest economic outlook, UBS economists led by Jonathan Pingle painted a picture of mounting weakness that extends well beyond headline job numbers, warning of a growing risk to households and the broader recovery….
For much of the year, top economists, including Fed Chair Jerome Powell, have said we’re in a “low hire, low fire” jobs market. For much of the year, employers were laconic in hiring, and seemed afraid to fire their workers; perhaps still wounded from the pandemic-era “Great Resignation.” UBS isn’t alone on Wall Street in worrying that, maybe the “low-fire” part of the equation isn’t quite true anymore….
Since the start of the year, household employment as measured by the main government survey has been falling by about 72,000 jobs per month through August. Such a pace is “well below” the rate required to keep up with population growth, let alone maintain a stable unemployment rate, which has now crept up to a post-2021 high. Labor force participation has slipped, and more than 800,000 people have left the labor force but say they still want a job.?
Economists note the broadest measure of underemployment, known as U-6, has jumped by 0.6 percentage points since January to 8.1%. That’s now 1.3 percentage points higher than at the end of 2019. Notably, the rise isn’t just about people out of work: more Americans are working part-time for economic reasons, another classic sign of slackening demand. “That is exactly the opposite of what should happen under a negative labor supply shock stemming from immigration,” UBS wrote, referring to the Trump administration’s argument that immigration restrictions would tighten the labor market.
The nativists were sure that if the government forcibly abducted and deported enough people, there’d be good jobs for everyone remaining. And yet, and yet, labor demand continues to fall. Removing workers won’t increase labor demand; increasing capital’s demand for labor will increase labor demand.
The local nativists of Whitewater stood at the common council lectern and — at least twice since January — insisted that federal deportations would solve the cost of housing in Whitewater. That was wrong twice over (morally and practically). The solution to the cost of housing in Whitewater is an increase in supply.
The extreme populism of the federal administration has never been about economics, except on the occasion of falsely insisting it is about economics.
Part of a recently opened bridge collapsed in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan on Tuesday, authorities said, with no casualties reported. It formed part of a national highway linking the country’s heartland with Tibet.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be windy with a high of 52. Sunrise is 6:43 and sunset is 4:34 for 9 hours 51 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 46.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Equal Opportunities Commission meets at 5 PM.
On this day in 1938, Nazi Germany issues the Decree on the Elimination of Jews from Economic Life prohibiting Jews from selling goods and services or working in a trade, totally segregating Jews from the German economy.
Soybeans are a top food export for the U.S., making up 14% of the nation’s agricultural exports, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In 2024, China bought $12.5 billion of the $24.5 billion of soybeans the U.S. exported globally — more than 50% of U.S. exports of the crop.
In 2024, China imported approximately 26.8 million metric tons of U.S. soybeans, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. But even with China’s commitment to purchasing 12 million metric tons before the end of 2025, total U.S. soybean exports to China this year would reach only 18.2 million metric tons — a 32% decline in exports since 2024.
China’s boycott of U.S. soybeans has cost farmers billions of dollars in lost exports. While the recent deal will help make up for some lost ground, a decrease in U.S. soybean exports to China paired with high production costs and low crop prices have made 2025 a tough year for American farmers.
Additionally, the 25 million tons of U.S. soybeans China agreed to buy annually for the next three years falls short of the average amount sold to China since the COVID-19 pandemic. From 2020 through 2024, the U.S. sold an average of more than 28 million metric tons of soybeans to China annually, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Big Tech companies are spending billions on data centres to build out AI — but that’s not all cash they have on hand. Instead they are borrowing billions on public markets — and as Elena Casas explains, that is starting to make the market nervous.
Veterans Day in Whitewater will be windy with a high of 41. Sunrise is 6:42 and sunset is 4:35 for 9 hours 53 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 56.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Public Works Committee meets at 5:15 PM.
On this day in 1918, Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne.
Last evening, at a meeting of Whitewater’s Planning and Architectural Commission, the commission unanimously approved a permit for townhomes to be built through Habitat for Humanity of Walworth County. (The basis of the commission’s action was to grant a conditional use permit for first-floor residential use in the downtown business district.)
A description of the project from the zoning administrator was part of the agenda packet for the evening:
The applicant is requesting a conditional use permit for first floor residential use in the B-2 zoning district. Habitat for Humanity has partnered with the City of Whitewater to complete a residential project located at 216 Main Street. The parcel previously had a dilapidated building on the site, and in previous years had been used as a vehicle parking area. The building has since been razed, and old alleyway has been formally vacated, and the site is ready for new development.
Yes — that area did previously have a dilapidated building, and the site is now ready for new development. Habitat for Humanity is a good choice for the property in itself, with the work to be accomplished through labor equity from the homeowners. The result will be better by far than the sorry former state of the property.
It’s to our city’s credit that Whitewater has proposed and now advanced these homes. No one builds what no one tries. Whitewater is not a new city and Habitat for Humanity is not a new program. It was our current municipal government that made this possible for the community.
Animals at Brookfield Zoo Chicago got a taste of winter as the city saw its first snowfall of the season. Flurries fell on Sunday across parts of the Chicago area.
Monday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 35. Sunrise is 6:41 and sunset is 4:36 for 9 hours 55 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 67.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
The return of U.S. economic data when Washington reopens may do little to clear up a macro picture that is clouded by the dash for artificial intelligence and compounded by trade distortions.
Federal Reserve officials are doing their best at the guessing game on what comes next – but it is just that. The more humble in the Fed’s ranks concede that it’s impossible to tell.
Cleveland Fed boss Beth Hammack, a known hawk and a voting member of the Fed’s policymaking council next year, said the AI investment frenzy and related stock price surges complicated matters by creating something of a dual economy, with higher earners and asset holders doing well even as cost-of-living pressures weigh on the rest.
In short, she reckons the Fed is walking a policy high wire and can’t lean much in either direction. “When you see this bifurcation, it’s really difficult for monetary policy,” Hammack told the Economic Club of New York last week.
“Bifurcated economy” is the phrase of the moment.
Consumer price inflation is still well above target and rising, and financial conditions are the loosest in years – but layoffs are rising, in part due to AI adoption.
An economy creating few jobs that is still clocking annualized GDP growth of 4% – at least with the limited data the Atlanta Fed model has to go on – is a fiendishly difficult one to navigate.
How much impact AI is having on the labor market, or how much it will have in the future, remains uncertain. But it’s conceivable that we could see job creation grind to a halt next year, while hundreds of billions of dollars in AI investment boosts top-line GDP and the mounting electricity demand puts upward pressure on prices.
These would be conditions of narrow growth, reaching some while leaving many more behind.
In an ordinary environment, of people freely choosing, an economic imbalance like this would lead to political change. Now, as our national environment is under the influence of a populist movement that willingly bears hardship to inflict hardship on others, change will be more difficult, and come only through diligent and determined effort.
Nothing is as surprising as encountering people who are surprised that we’ve a long path before us. The reasonable assumption is that we have many challenging years ahead.
For Whitewater and other communities in Wisconsin, it’s vital that we expand local opportunities, including for housing, to the greatest extent that we are able. As politics grows more nationalized, effective economic uplift will need to be increasingly local.
Sunday in Whitewater will be windy with a high of 34. Sunrise is 6:39 and sunset is 4:37 for 9 hours 58 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 76.6 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1938, the Nazis instigate Kristallnacht.
The primaries for Wisconsin’s open gubernatorial election are about nine months away and the 2026 general election is still a year out, but Democratic and Republican candidates had their first opportunity to speak at a group forum Thursday.
The forum, moderated by WISN-12 News Political Director Matt Smith, was hosted at the Wisconsin Technology Council’s annual symposium and focused mostly on the economy, especially the technology sector.
Democratic candidates at the forum included Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez, state Sen. Kelda Roys, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, state Rep. Francesca Hong and former Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) CEO Missy Hughes.
Washington County Executive Josh Schoemann was the lone Republican candidate at the forum. U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, who is seen as the frontrunner on the GOP side, was not present.
There was a third candidate missing, too. Donald Trump wasn’t in the room.
It’s Trump who will be, figuratively, on the ballot nearly as much as either major-party candidate literally.
If Trump is doing well among Wisconsinites next year, then the WISGOP candidate will do well in the fall. If Trump is doing poorly next year among Wisconsinites next year, then the WisDems candidate will do well.
Our state politics is a proxy for national politics. There’s no evidence that this will change by next November, or for years afterward.
Scientists have captured rare footage of remoras, also known as sucker fish, hitching rides on humpback whales off the coast of Australia. Remoras use an adhesive plate on their heads to cling to whales, feeding on dead skin and sea lice.
Saturday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 44. Sunrise is 6:38 and sunset is 4:38 for 10 hours 0 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 86.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1602, the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public.
The River Food Pantry [Dane County] Executive Director Rhonda Adams details how higher grocery prices and SNAP funding confusion are causing growing demand for its services, including from many first-time visitors.
The National Transportation Safety Board has released drone video of the scene of the UPS plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky, which resulted in the deaths of at least 13 people.
Friday in Whitewater will be windy with a high of 58. Sunrise is 6:37 and sunset is 4:39 for 10 hours 2 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 93.4 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1910, the first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Morehouse.
Gov. Tony Evers said Wisconsin is restoring benefits for nearly 700,000 Wisconsinites who receive federal food aid.
The move means the Wisconsinites who rely on food assistance “will not have to wake up tomorrow worried about when or whether they are going to eat next,” Evers said in a Thursday evening statement.
Evers’ announcement came hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fully fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as FoodShare in Wisconsin.
See Staff, Evers: FoodShare assistance restored to Wisconsinites (‘Gov. Tony Evers’ order came hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fully fund food assistance’), Wisconsin Public Radio, November 7, 2025.
Full FoodShare payments should be made to nearly 700,000 Wisconsinites who depend on them. FoodShare members should see the full November amount on their QUEST card.
Folks can check their benefit balances by calling 877-415-5164.
The Trump administration is asking a federal appeals court to pause a judge’s order that requires the government to fully cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November.
The emergency request made Friday morning to the First Circuit Court of Appeals comes a day after a federal judge in Rhode Island said the US Department of Agriculture must find additional money to make the payments, rejecting the administration’s decision to only partially fund the food benefits program this month.
Someone once said something about culpability in situations like this:
For I was hungry and you did not give me anything to eat, I was thirsty and you did not give me drink, I was a stranger and you did not give me hospitality, naked and you did not clothe me, ill and in prison and you did not look after me.’ Then they too will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison, and did not attend to you?’ Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Amen, I tell you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these my brothers, neither did you do it to me.’
Cats have also adapted their communication for humans. For instance, adult cats don’t usually meow at each other. But when around people, cats meow a lot, suggesting they have adapted this vocalisation for communicating with humans.
And it’s not just the meow. Cats have a wide vocal repertoire for conveying different meanings, even for specific people. Bonded cats and humans often develop their own communication repertoires, similar to having a unique dialect.
Despite all this, humans still routinely misunderstand cats. Our new study, published in Frontiers in Ethology, shows just how little people understand the cues cats give. Try the quiz below to see how well you speak cat.
Tuesday, November 11th at 1:00 PM, there will be a showing of The Lost Bus @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building:
Drama/History/Thriller Rated R (language)
2 hour, 9 minutes (2025)
A wayward school bus driver ( Matthew McConaughey) and a dedicated school teacher (America Ferrera) battle to save 22 children from a terrifying inferno, the 2018 Camp Fire, in Paradise, CA, that state’s deadliest wildfire in history. A true story.
Thursday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 55. Sunrise is 6:35 and sunset is 4:40 for 10 hours 5 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 98 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.
I’ll not suggest that I know what led to victory in the New York City mayoral race between Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo. That’s best left to those who study New York politics closely and carefully. And yet, and yet, even this libertarian blogger in Whitewater can suggest what didn’t make a difference in the race. This from August:
One can be quite confident that Cuomo’s post on X about his father and his grandmother made no difference whatever in the outcome. There’s no campaign polling or post-campaign vote analysis that points to this Cuomo post as an influence in the electoral outcome because (1) it wasn’t an influence, and (2) no New York analyst would be so addled to think it might have been an influence. This social media post was only important in the entitled space between Cuomo’s ears.
But his late father? His late grandmother? No one anywhere cares about parentage, of all things, with so many other pressing daily concerns. It’s the present that matters: what has the candidate done, what does the candidate believe, and what does he hope to accomplish? (There’s also something oblivious about Andrew Cuomo thinking someone else looks tired. Cuomo could sleep for a week and still look tired.)
Father and grandmother? Oh, my.
All across America, in these turbulent times, people look to the actions of the candidate, in our time.
Cuomo futilely tried a bit of DYKWIA family history.
To that effort, residents of towns big and small will answer the same way: IDGAF.
NBC News’ Steven Romo gets an exclusive look at Nike’s new project, “Amplify”, which offers a bionic boost for runners. The tech is not yet on the market, with Nike hoping it can eventually help athletes with recovery or those who may need help with mobility.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 56. Sunrise is 6:34 and sunset is 4:41 for 10 hours 7 minutes of daytime. The moon is full with 99.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1930, American novelist Sinclair Lewis becomes the first U.S. writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, recognized for his satirical examination of American culture and institutions.
Gov. Evers recently vetoed a billthat would have required in-person office attendance for state workers:
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has quashed a GOP-backed bill that would have ordered tens of thousands of state employees to work in-person most of the time….
In his veto message Friday, Evers said he opposes a “one-size-fits-all” mandate that would come at “great cost to taxpayers.”
“Under my administration, state government is working smarter and faster than ever before,” Evers wrote. “State agencies already are implementing robust accountability measures to ensure all state workers are fulfilling their responsibilities to the people of this state.”
Evers is right. Some workers are customer-facing, but many are not. Each workplace should determine which employees are customer-facing and which are not.
The measure of a worker should be how productive he or she is. Are tasks completed? Is value being created? Where the worker completes tasks, or from where the worker creates value, is a secondary matter. Employees who are already productive should not be removed from the very places (wherever) their beneficial production occurs.
Managers should be able to evaluate tasks and value regardless of where those tasks and value are created. If managers require in-office attendance to evaluate these measures, then the problem lies with management. It’s a dull manager who thinks an in-office presence is proof of productivity. Seeing someone sitting at a desk evaluates little more than posture.
Managers who need to see an employee, rather than looking at an employee’s created work, are looking in the wrong place.
Japanese astronomer Daichi Fujii captured two brilliant flashes on the moon’s nightside on Oct. 30 and Nov. 1, 2025. The flashes were likely caused by meteoroids from the Taurid meteor shower striking the lunar surface.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 61. Sunrise is 6:33 and sunset is 4:43 for 10 hours 10 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 98.5 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1979, a group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.
Remarks About a Failed Business Prospect. On October 13th, a former member of Whitewater’s old Community Development Authority spoke in a public meeting about a recycling business that the CDA recruited during the previous decade. Those remarks from October (to the Whitewater Planning Commission) appear below.
October 13th, 2025:
A couple things. I actually was on the CDA, and there was a company that was going to build on this site with recycling clay tiles. It was a unique process, and they did have approval for a rail spur on that site.
From these remarks, one would be forgiven for thinking that this business was a near-success for Whitewater, a great-opportunity-that-might-have-been. No and no again. It was nothing of the kind.
The Truth About that Recycling Business Prospect. This gentleman was describing a business that was called DP Recycling.
The business claimed that it would grind cathode ray tubes (the ones in old-style television sets) into ceramic tiles. People would then buy the tiles. In 2013, when the old CDA was touting this venture, this libertarian blogger wrote that
It should be a universal truth that Whitewater and Wisconsin deserve a far higher standard of diligence and review than whatever our CDA chairman believes his “gut” tells him would be good for our city and nearby area.
In fact, that kind of intestinally-based level of judgment has failed this city time and again, and is beneath the level of care that any well-organized, reasonable American city deserves.
You’ll see another example of this sort of serial mediocrity in a breathless story at Whitewater’s news site that a recycling company, unable to get a permit to mix toxic substances into (supposedly safe) floor tile, was denied (so far) permitting in Wisconsin. The company now insists it will build in Arkansas.
(At the time, DP Recycling was arguing that if it didn’t get what it wanted from Whitewater, it would move to Arkansas. Stop. Don’t. Come Back.)
The History of that Business in Whitewater Appears Below.
1. April 2013, the Whitewater CDA extends loans to DP Recycling amounting to tens of thousands. (See Item 5, below).
2. February 25, 2015, the Whitewater CDA makes a motion to “Motion to authorize the Chairperson of the CDA and the Executive Director to sign the Development Agreement with DP Electronic recycling Inc. for the construction of a new facility to be located in the Technology Park.” See Whitewater Community Development Authority, Meeting Minutes, February 25, 2015.
3. February 2016, the Whitewater Common Council approves a development agreement with DP Recycling. Here’s a news story from the time:
DP Electronic Recycling Inc. has signed a development agreement with the City of Whitewater for construction of its new state-of-the-art recycling complex in the Whitewater University Technology Park
The Elkhorn company’s facility and world headquarters will be valued at more than $12.5 million. It is expected to create more than 100 new positions working multiple shifts.
With the worldwide surplus of over 1 billion pounds of CRT tubes in storage that DP Electronic knows about, this new technology is designed to reuse discarded CRT tubes by encapsulating the materials into an environmentally safe, consumer-grade product.
In essence, the facility will turn old electronic equipment glass into new tiling….
Community Development Authority Chairperson Jeffery Knight said his organization is very pleased with the agreement.
“We have been working with DP Electronic Recycling for a number of years while they worked through the regulatory process to secure financing,” Knight said.
“This project is truly an example of an individual demonstrating an entrepreneurial spirit at its best,” he added. “The City of Whitewater is extremely pleased that Dale has chosen Whitewater for their new plant and especially pleased that this is will be their world headquarters.”
Construction of the new facility is slated to begin this spring. The company plans to be fully operational within 18 months after breaking ground.
Last year, the CDA approved selling the nearly 11-acre lot in the WUTP to the company for $1. Construction of the 100,000-square-foot facility will include new multi-use trails to connect to the city’s existing path system.
DP Electronic Recycling reportedly was courted by other regions, including the City of Watertown and a city in Arkansas. Company officials previously have said one of the reasons the company chose the City of Whitewater was due to its willingness to work with the company through loans during that state- and federal-level permitting process.
4. April 2019, Whitewater approves an updated memorandum of understanding with recycler. Three years later, the recycler still had not set up shop in Whitewater, as a newspaper account from that time reported:
In February 2016, the common council originally approved a developer’s agreement with DP Electronic Recycling that called for the Elkhorn-based company to build a state-of-the-art recycling complex and new headquarters in the Whitewater University Technology Park. As stated at the time, the facility and headquarters would be valued at more than $12.5 million and expected to create more than 90 new positions working multiple shifts.
As part of the developer’s agreement, the City of Whitewater, through its Community Development Authority (CDA), would sell a parcel, just under 11 acres, in the Tech Park for just $1. That sale was contingent on DP Electronic Recycling repaying two outstanding loans with the CDA prior to closing on the property,
According to City Manager Cameron Clapper and CDA executive director Dave Carlson, however, the development did not happen.
“Due to unexpected delays, this project did not proceed and the deadlines for performance in the development agreement have all since passed,” Carlson said.
Secondly, we became aware that DP Electronics is one of the borrowers here in this group of capital catalyst loans. They also have a UDAG loan or an action fund loan in the bottom grouping. So, these orange highlighted blocks, this is DP Electronics.
That’s the full value of the loan. They have not made payments over its history, and many of you in this body are aware of kind of their long-pending development within the southern end of the Business Park, Tech Park, that ended up not coming to fruition. So, there’s two amounts here.
There’s a $51,000 in the capital catalyst, and I apologize I can’t display the whole line and still make it legible without being an eye chart. This block, this 51 above, is DP Electronics’ capital catalyst royalty loan, originated in 2013. And then, there’s another $34,600 in the lower group.
Again, that loan was originated also in 2013, April 13th. So, as we get right now, this is a specific reserve, so it’s specifically earmarked for those loans. At some point in the future, as we’ve had to recognize in the past and actually take the next step, which would be a write-off, we’ll do that as we get documentation of their insolvency and then take that formal next steps as we’re certain there is no prospect of recovery.
So, right now, we’re aware, have been made aware that they’re not reachable, that they’ve become insolvent. We’ve not yet had documentation of that. So, we will seek that before we go any further and actually take the next step as a write-off.
A Few Remarks. I’m not sure why anyone would admit to being on the old CDA, any more than one would readily admit to slipping intentionally on a banana peel.
By October 13th, it should have been clear to anyone that the rail site on the east side of town was the worst possible rail spur location.
Yet, it’s always been clear to anyone who followed the DP Recycling story in Whitewater a decade ago that that business was not going to use a rail spur for any purpose. Their plan wasn’t ‘unique’ — it was the sort of sketchy idea that only an unserious, scrounging development team would embrace. Rail spur, mule train, or sled dogs: DP Recycling wasn’t going to use any of them.
You don’t need transportation in Whitewater for what you’re never going to make in Whitewater.
DP Recycling wasn’t a near-miss for Whitewater — it was a total failure. It was and remains illustrative of the incompetence of the old CDA. Rail spur access didn’t make the difference here. Poor judgment made the difference here.
A medieval tower in central Rome collapsed again during a rescue operation by firefighters after the initial collapse, sending up cloud of debris. One worker died in from the accident.
Monday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 57. Sunrise is 6:32 and sunset is 4:44 for 10 hours 12 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 94.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
The Innovation Center Advisory Panel meets at 1 PM. The Whitewater School Board’s Policy Review Committee meets at 4:30 PM.
On this day in 1973, NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
[Attorney Abha] Khanna said her team filed the lawsuit with enough time to potentially redraw the maps, despite the congressmen’s recent actions.
“There certainly is time to affect the 2026 elections,” she said.
This lawsuit lays out a more familiar partisan gerrymandering argument, in which lawyers say Wisconsin’s congressional maps discriminate against Democratic voters. Six of the state’s eight House seats are filled by Republicans, even though statewide elections have been close partisan races. Sens. Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin — a Republican and Democrat, respectively — won their most recent statewide elections by a percentage point or less, while Gov. Tony Evers kept his office by more than 3 percentage points in 2022 (Evers will not be seeking reelection in 2026)….
Not everyone involved is so optimistic that this will be resolved quickly. Jeff Mandell, a plaintiff attorney in the redistricting lawsuit alleging that the maps are illegally too favorable to incumbents — a new argument that hasn’t been tested in the state — said it is “exceedingly unlikely” that new maps could be drawn in time for the midterm elections. Primary candidates must file their nomination papers to the elections commission by June 1, 2026. The final district lines must be in place by spring for candidates to circulate their papers among the right voters.
“If we don’t have maps by the end of March or so, it’s very, very difficult to run the election next November,” Mandell said.
Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia basilica is now the world’s tallest church after a part of its central tower was lifted into place. Antoni Gaudí’s masterpiece now rises to 534 feet, beating out the former tallest church, Germany’s Ulmer Münster. (AP video by Hernan Munoz).
