Friday in Whitewater will be sunny with high of 82. Sunrise is 6:29 AM and sunset 7:14 PM for 12h 45m 22s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 98.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
Ahead of the 2022 midterms, FRONTLINE’s two-hour season premiere investigates political leaders and choices they made at key points that have undermined and threatened American democracy. This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Support your local PBS station here: http://www.pbs.org/donate.
In “Lies, Politics and Democracy,” FRONTLINE examines how officials fed the public lies about the 2020 presidential election and embraced rhetoric that led to political violence. An epic examination of former President Donald Trump’s influence on the Republican Party, the documentary presents startling details from GOP insiders on how the indulgence of Trump’s authoritarian impulses and embrace of his rhetoric enabled his power over the American political system, leading the nation to a precarious moment in which most Republican voters now believe the lie that the 2020 election was stolen.
Told in part through the perspectives of key Republican players and party leaders, the two-hour special provides first-person accounts from those who sounded the alarm about Trump, and those whose warnings were minimized or silenced all along the way.
Tuesday, September 13th at 1:00 PM, there will be a showing of CODA@ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building:
Comedy/Drama/Music
Rated PG-13; 1 hour, 51 minutes (2021)
As a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults), Ruby is the only hearing person in her deaf family. When the family’s fishing business is threatened, Ruby finds herself torn between pursuing her passion at music college and her fear of abandoning her parents. Winner of 3 Oscars, including Best Picture, Supporting Actor and Screenplay.
Cheetahs can be very vocal cats, with a wide “vocabulary” of noises: from purring and hissing typical of a house cat, to trills, chirps, and yips which are almost bird-like.
Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny with high of 82. Sunrise is 6:28 AM and sunset 7:16 PM for 12h 48m 12s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 94.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1966, the landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, “The Man Trap.“
Our area is now a news desert. The APG newspapers have withered and retreated behind a paywall, the Register has slipped into an irreversible coma, and the Banner does not have a professional journalist. There is nothing journalistically worthy in the area except Fort Atkinson Online.
(Needless to say, FREE WHITEWATER is the work of a libertarian blogger, not a journalist. This steadfast blog is, however, the work of someone raised in a newspaper-loving family, long before the internet, where there were newspapers, magazines, journals, and books all about the house. A literate person can and should be able to tell the difference between good journalism, good commentary, and everything else.)
Fort Atkinson Online is good journalism.
And so, and so, what to make of the headline and story on Whitewater Police Chief Dan Meyer’s discussion before the council on challenges near Fox Meadows?
I’ve watched his remarks and the Whitewater Common Council’s discussion three times, and Meyer speaks in an even, neutral, and professional tone with carefully chosen words. There is nothing in that presentation from which one could infer of him, or attribute to him, a contempt for immigrants. His presentation was business standard, so to speak (as it should be).
As much as we live in a community where some immigrants struggle to adjust, we live in a community where some native-born residents bitterly decry newcomers.
Meyer’s remarks were always going to be those of a man speaking as though he walked through a mine field. That’s the time in which we live.
On policing, there’s a view that libertarians naturally dislike the police. It’s false. (I don’t, for example, believe in ‘defunding’ the police. Local government should not budget by particular departments but holistically. In any event, Whitewater was never a community where defunding was gong to happen, and anyone who thought so is deluded.)
Former chiefs Coan and Otterbacher deserved dogged criticism for their mistakes, and of Raap this website mostly offered links to news accounts published elsewhere.
About Raap, I will say this: more than once I have remarked that community policing is a matter of what happens at a distance of fifteen feet (where we live), not fifteen miles (where he lived). As it turned out, ironically, Raap’s employment challenges were both at a distance of fifteen feet where he lived and fifteen feet where we live. There was no way to see that outcome in advance. For it all, I’m genuinely disappointed about how his career ended in Whitewater: the city handled the matter secretively and unprofessionally. One truly hopes the best for Raap and his family.
About the 9.6.22 council session: a headline that reads Police Chief Expresses Concerns with ‘Ongoing Influx of New Community Members’is journalistically accurate and fair, but — most likely — is not the headline that Whitewater’s responsible government, in the city or school district, would have wanted. City officials, however, do not and must not get to pick.
(Funny story, about blogging in Whitewater: years ago, a woman who once lived in Whitewater mentioned to me that it might be a good idea if I showed my posts to the city manager at the time, before publishing them. Of course, my answer was no: if government should not by law exercise a prior restraint or editorial control over publishing, then publishers shouldn’t voluntarily accept one. I’m happily still here, publishing freely; the woman moved away, and the city manager’s long gone, too.)
It’s not a libertarian’s calling to advise government, and one wouldn’t expect the advice to be taken in any event. Still, a sincere offering, as a matter of advocacy: in cases where officials speak on sensitive topics, the beginning and end of those remarks should include a plain, clear statement of principle that inoculates the official against particular remarks that others may latch upon. It should be expressed in a simple, conversational, congenial way (nothing stifled or stuffy). Then, against particular, selected quotations, the speaker or interviewee can plainly state: but most important of all is how I began and ended. If the speaker or interviewee does not begin with a conversational statement of inoculating principle, then that responsive opportunity is lost when a story hits the web.
In the discussion from Tuesday, a nativist resident calling in latched onto remarks about particular domestic violence to make general, exaggerated cultural claims. These nativists love those opportunities, to exaggerate the particular into the generally derogatory. They wind up soiling others with their own muck.
As for any interviews, they should also be recorded. The official being interviewed should politely ask to record the full call, or make sure a meeting is recorded, and then begin and end with a general (and conversationally-expressed) statement. A professional reporter will often also record an interview, and will respect a request like this. Calm, relaxed, friendly, only a few sentences in the beginning and end are needed: ‘Thanks for this opportunity. I’d just like to say that we believe…’)
Whitewater is better off — much — for having a professional journalist (a reporter-editor) who covers our community. Officials who shy from the press do a disservice to the community. For officials, it’s stand and deliver or walk away. The Fort Atkinson Online tagline states that the publication is “[y]our local news source serving Fort Atkinson, Whitewater and surrounding areas.” Yes, it is.
We are a factionalized city, however, and we’ve only recently acquired good journalism from this nearby website (years having passed since the Gazette was a solid publication).
Our current condition requires craft, for all of us, to make ourselves plain.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with high of 80. Sunrise is 6:27 AM and sunset 7:18 PM for 12h 51m 02s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 88.4% of its visible disk illuminated.
During the Revolutionary War on this day in 1778, France successfully invades Dominica in the British West Indies before British Caribbean authorities are even aware of France’s involvement in the war.
Whitewater’s city manager left his position in mid-August. The City of Whitewater has contracted with GovHR USA to find a new city manager, and in the meantime hired an interim city manager through GovTemps USA (a subsidiary of GovHR USA). The city’s human resources director, Judy Atkinson, described the hiring process in brief remarks to the Whitewater Common Council (embedded above) with a written description of the process in the evening’s council packet (embedded below).
What to say as this process begins?
There is no portion of the process, that one can easily see from the video remarks or the written document, that provides for a community forum for the final candidates. The law does not require a forum of this kind; open-government principles call for one.
Perhaps I’m missing that portion of the packet; my apologies if that’s the case. One needs to be clear: if the requirements include hiring a “City Manager [who] is Whitewater’s chief executive officer in charge of the city’s day-to-day operations and budgets of approximately $24 million” then this city government owes its residents a community forum with final candidates before a hiring decision.
I’m truly puzzled — isn’t this obvious? Whitewater requires a limited and responsible government, and to be responsible to the city’s residents, this government must be forthcoming.
With so many needs, and so many problems, this is an unexpected and unwelcome misstep. It’s hard to understand how the hiring firm and the city’s human resources manager might have overlooked the crucial open-government requirement of a dedicated and plainlyspecified community forum.
If a community forum with the final candidates doesn’t happen, then it’s not possible to support this process or its result.
Of all the candidates in the initial round, another point is worth making. The City of Whitewater has hired a firm, and pledged to a process, that will produce several qualified candidates for the consideration of the Whitewater Common Council. That process must assure that each of these candidates is capable, and that each receives fair and equal consideration.
While the interim city manager has expressed an interest in a permanent position (in both a news feature story and during the 9.6.22 council session), he should not (and must not) receive preferential consideration. This city government has not promised, and is not paying a consultant, for a temp-to-hire process.
While it may be true, as this interim manager told a reporter, that most city managers remain in a position for less than five years, that’s not what Whitewater needs or deserves.
Whitewater is not a day job, a line on a résumé, or a stop along the way.
Deeply and truly: Whitewater is the work — and the adventure — of a lifetime.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with high of 76. Sunrise is 6:25 AM and sunset 7:19 PM for 12h 53m 53s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 79.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1803, British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.
So if boosterism was (and is) grandiose, then how so? The answer is that boosterism was grandiose for publicly-subsidized capital projects, but small in its grasp of society.
In Whitewater, boosterism collected adherents of different politics, under a single banner, although most were traditional conservatives.
Capital. Of capital, they invariably felt that if a community would only pay or subsidize a big capital project, then presto!: a shiny new world would emerge. If there is any group that held to the view that if you build it, they will come, it was the boosters. A pool, a bridge, a roundabout, a university office building masquerading as an ‘innovation’ center, a road project on the east side, etc. It was all about capital for them.
They were project men, business men, but not, so to speak, market men and women.
They pushed particular projects and particular businesses, but had no theory whatever of markets. It’s not the project or the particular business that brings prosperity, it’s free and voluntary private transactions among people that bring prosperity.
These free and voluntary transactions by their nature are not, and cannot be, within the control of a small-town group.
Society. What the boosters didn’t have, and have never had, is a comprehensive view of society. They consistently conflated their small circles with all the city. From their point of view, they understood society very well, person by person, name by name. That, however, was a narrow view. They were ludicrously myopic, and thought of their small social circle as all. In a town of thousands, they could see no farther than dozens.
They weren’t less naturally intelligent than others, but they were instead dim by acquired perspective. (Almost all people are sharp; it’s a poor outlook and lack of knowledge that dooms some to error.)
From their perspective, it would be impossible for someone outside their circle to understand the community better than they did. On the contrary, it was only by being outside their circle that an accurate understanding was possible. They couldn’t see the forest for the trees. Along the lines of their confusion, see Perspectives Narrow or Wide and The End of DYKWIA in Whitewater.
There are various competing ideologies to libertarianism, some serious, some silly, some benign, some malignant. Boosterism is notably pathetic in its thirst for subsidies, willful ignorance of social ills, and hunger for self-promoting group-think.
Old Whitewater ran on boosterism, although many from that time have now retired or passed on. (There’s still some of it around — the school district’s justification for a $1.6 million field project reeked of the if-you-build-it-they-will-come perspective.)
That perspective is, however, afflicted twice over: it doesn’t work, and its adherents will struggle to be remembered for it. The first contention is economic (it indubitably hasn’t improved individual or household incomes) but the second is (however harsh it must seem) equally significant.
The obliging local newspapers that printed boosters’ claims during the century’s first decade are mostly finished now, having withered and then retreated behind paywalls. A few in Whitewater spent so much time getting a favorable headline from a sycophantic reporter, but the collapse of local newspapers has left their efforts mostly inaccessible. Facebook, by its nature more immediate and participatory, doesn’t allow for the prominent, one-sided accounts that the boosters wanted and expected from an obliging reporter.
Families will, of course, remember their own histories (as they should). As a movement, however, boosterism today has neither the energy nor a prominent medium by which to tout its supposed successes.
Sad, truly, but telling: this ideology is more alive (by way of criticism) on this website than elsewhere in the city (by way of support).
Criticism, however, didn’t do the boosters in.
Actual conditions, beginning in the Great Recession, proved their outlook wrong. (These years later, those of this ilk who remain probably don’t understand as much. It’s unlikely they ever will.)
What has come along after them, however, is more trouble for the city than even boosterism has been: an assertive, agitated conservative populism wants what it wants without limits.
In their tenuous arguments and treacly claims, the boosters only true accomplishment has been to pave the way for something worse.
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 Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War:
The battle is often described as the first major battle of the war in the Pacific in which Allied troops decisively defeated Japanese land forces. Although Japanese land forces had experienced local setbacks elsewhere in the Pacific earlier in the war, unlike at Milne Bay, these earlier actions had not forced them to withdraw completely and abandon their strategic objective. Nor did they have such a profound impact upon the thoughts and perceptions of the Allies towards the Japanese, and their prospects for victory. Milne Bay showed the limits of Japanese capability to expand using relatively small forces in the face of increasingly larger Allied troop concentrations and command of the air. As a result of the battle, Allied morale was boosted and Milne Bay was developed into a major Allied base, which was used to mount subsequent operations in the region.
The Foxconn project in Wisconsin wasted money, destroyed people’s homes, and saddled nearby communities with decades of municipal debt. It would not have happened had people not been susceptible of the grandiose (lit., characterized by excessive self-importance or affected grandeur; pompous.) Yet they were.
RACINE — Unrealistic, grandiose plans with a touch of greed is how panelists at a Foxconn town hall meeting described the last five years since the mega factory was announced.
Mount Pleasant, a bedroom community of Racine, was catapulted to international prominence in 2017 when the Taiwanese-based manufacturing company announced its plan to invest $10 billion and create 13,000 high-paying high-tech jobs there.
Foxconn has massively scaled back those plans and it is unknown what the company is doing in Mount Pleasant in the four buildings it has constructed.
Lawrence Tabak, the author of “Foxconned: Imaginary Jobs, Bulldozed Homes, and the Sacking of Local Government,” said every economic developer is looking for the next Silicon Valley. That’s what Mount Pleasant and Wisconsin hoped it was getting with Foxconn.
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[Professor of urban planning at the University of Illinois Chicago David] Merriman, who has studied tax incremental financing since the 1980s, said it doesn’t seem like it’s in Foxconn’s interest to continue making payments to the village.
“We don’t know what will happen — people can tell you they know, but they don’t,” Merriman said.
“The basic question is, is the community better off than it was before? The burden hasn’t fallen on the community, but the risk has. If Foxconn decides to default, Mount Pleasant is not in a good space.”
For an entire category at FREE WHITEWATER dedicated to this wasteful project, seeFoxconn.
Whitewater’s suffered, and sometimes still does, the affliction of grandiosity. Old Whitewater, a state of mind more than a time or person, produced nothing so much as boosterism’s grandiosity (accentuating only the positive and exaggerating the importance of whatever public project the boosters were promoting). In Whitewater, the years 2006—2007 were its high water mark. The public officials of that time — Brunner for the city, Coan for the police department, Steinhaus for the school district, and Telfer for the university— were exemplars of small-thinking and big-talking. One looks back and thinks: not one of these officials or their hangers-on was worthy of his or her position.
(The City of Whitewater recently decided against choosing Brunner’s consulting firm to gather candidates for its next city manager. Honest to goodness, that was an easy, sensible decision. To have chosen otherwise would have opened the city to a lengthy recitation of Brunner’s past managerial mistakes while in Whitewater’s or Walworth County’s employ. Ignoring the past, condemned to repeat…)
Gains that the boosters touted as extraordinary and eternal (e.g., campus enrollment, a so-called Innovation Center, various road projects) have proved exaggerated and ephemeral. Although their outlook continued for many years after ’06—’07, and even now has a grip on a few, in each subsequent year boosterism has grown less credible.
The Great Recession of ’07—’09 set Whitewater on a course from which she has yet to recover. The boosters had no cure for that downturn; on the contrary, their outlook exacerbated the city’s ills through willful ignorance. An accurate understanding of the city’s political and socio-economic condition requires that one see this clearly. Alternative explanations are erroneous to the degree of their departure from this understanding.
Government should have been, and should be, limited, responsible, and humble.
Grandiosity? It was a problem in Whitewater long before Foxconn came along.
Sunday in Whitewater will see a mix of clouds and sunshine with high of 70. Sunrise is 6:23 AM and sunset 7:23 PM for 12h 59m 32s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 59.4% of its visible disk illuminated.
The 65 Project filed ethics complaints against 15 lawyers Wednesday, including Michael D. Dean of Brookfield and Daniel J. Eastman of Mequon, who were involved in a series of lawsuits on behalf of former President Donald Trump.
Neither Dean nor Eastman responded to a request for comment. All 15 lawyers were involved in litigation in Wisconsin.
The 65 Project is named for the 65 lawsuits filed by Trump-allied lawyers in swing states immediately after the 2020 election that seek to overturn Joe Biden’s victory.
The group states that it aims to hold lawyers accountable for “fraudulent legal actions aimed at overturning legitimate elections.”
Since March, the project has filed about 40 ethics complaints against attorneys across the country.
The complaints are meant to deter lawyers nationwide from filing baseless lawsuits by exposing some lawyers, said Michael Teter, the group’s managing director.
“We want to do that by holding them accountable for their efforts and by publicizing their work so that they are known within their communities as having sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election through abusing the court system,” he said.
Because the results in Wisconsin were close, and because the state Legislature is dominated by Republicans, Teter said lawyers throughout the country targeted Wisconsin. They aimed “to convince the Republican legislature to then disregard the people’s will and to change the outcome of the electoral vote.”
But these lawsuits, he said, were mainly a political tool. Most lawyers didn’t expect to win, he said, and many dismissed their own cases within a week of filing. Despite that, he said they chipped away at public trust in the election results.
That case, the ethics complaint read, “lacked any basis in law or fact” and was “nearly a carbon copy of litigation filed in other cases.”
Wisconsin’s Office of Lawyer Regulation isn’t known for scrupulous enforcement, so these two will probably carry on as before.
Dean was graduated from Marquette Law in ’87, and Eastman from the University of New Hampshire School of Law in ’87. They’ve represented their schools poorly.
Each man is an embarrassment to his alma mater and to the profession.
Saturday in Whitewater will see scattered thundershowers with high of 80. Sunrise is 6:22 AM and sunset 7:25 PM for 13h 02m 20s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 48% of its visible disk illuminated.
Understanding the difference between mere production and productivity is critical to measuring meaningful economic achievement. While production is the manufacture (or conversion) of raw materials into goods or services, productivity is the making of those goods or the provision of those services more efficiently than in a prior period. It’s an easy distinction, and most people grasp it it well and intuitively. As it turns out, however, some well-placed executives have embarrassing trouble understanding either of the concepts.
Josh Barro, writing at his newsletter Very Serious, describes a story in the New York Times about Washington Post publisher Fred Ryan. Ryan wants his reporters to be in the office more often, and he’s been pondering ways to compel them to come back. As Barro observes, this shows that Ryan doesn’t understand production or productivity at his own paper — despite having been the Post publisher for years, and despite having been appointed by businessman-billionaire Jeff Bezos (owner of the Post).
First Ryan’s plan, and then Barro’s spot-on critique.
He has expressed his belief to members of his leadership team that there were numerous low performers in the newsroom who needed to be managed out…
Mr. Ryan has expressed annoyance with senior newsroom leaders at what he sees as a lack of productivity by some journalists at the paper. Last fall, he asked for the company’s chief information officer to pull records on which days employees held videoconference meetings, as a way to judge production levels, and found that fewer meetings occurred on Fridays, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.
He has also grown increasingly frustrated that some Post staff members are still not in the office at least three days a week, the company’s policy.
In recent weeks, Mr. Ryan asked for disciplinary letters to be drafted and sent to employees who had not made any appearance in the office this year, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions. He ultimately decided that the letters should not be sent, and that the people should be called instead.
If this reporting should be accurate, it suggests that Ryan doesn’t understand a key aspect of production or productivity in his own industry.
Having observed other managerial failures at the Post from the outside (I’ve never worked there) it would not surprise me in the least if it’s possible to identify dozens of staff who could be cut with little impact to the quality of the news report.
But the thing about these low performers is that middle managers almost always already know who they are. And especially at a newspaper, it’s not that hard to tell who’s producing and who isn’t. It’s not as simple as looking at how many words per week someone is filing, but if you have a writer who’s producing very little copy, there is generally either an identifiable reason that writer is highly valuable — does she do months-long investigations that break huge news and win awards? — or there isn’t.
And that’s what makes Ryan’s apparent fixation on videoconference meeting schedules and badge scans pretty odd.
There are valid reasons you might want workers in the office (collaboration, supervision, etc.) and also valid reasons not to force them back (competitors are more flexible, and if you aren’t, some strong performers will quit). But for evaluating the performance of individual employees, you can look directly at their actual work, rather than relying on their physical presence in the office as a proxy.
So the whole thing kind of seems like the worst of both worlds, from a personnel-management perspective: antagonizing the staff by scolding them over their physical presence, while failing to actually weed out the staff whose performance is sub-par.
(Emphasis added.)
For reporting that leads to publishable writing, the measure is what you produce and how efficiently are you produce it. If strong and efficient production of news stories comes from reporters who do their work in treehouses, VW buses, or gin joints, so be it.
Does Ryan understand his product? Readers want news, features, and commentary from the Post, and they look for those written words online or in newsprint. Where the stories are drafted doesn’t matter. Showing up in the office only matters if that location is the place of greatest production and productivity for reporters’ work. If it’s not the place of greatest production, then compulsion of workers to the office only leads to lesser production and productivity.
In any event, for writing, it’s what lands on the page that matters to readers. Ryan already knows what’s on the pages of his paper; he doesn’t need reporters’ office time to measure production.
Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with high of 84. Sunrise is 6:21 AM and sunset 7:26 PM for 13h 05m 09s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 36.7% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1945, the Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japan and the major warring powers aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
The national economy continues to add hundreds of thousands of new jobs per month.
The U.S. labor market added 315,000 jobs in August, hitting a 20-month streak in strong job growth that’s powering an economy through ominously high inflation.
The unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 3.7 percent, according to a monthly jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday, with 344,000 more people unemployed than the previous month.
The August jobs gains were the lowest monthly pick-up so far this year, but the labor market remains an area of strength for the economy, especially as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates to rein in blistering inflation.
The biggest gains were in professional and business services, which added 68,000 jobs in August, shooting past its pre-pandemic numbers. The industry saw the strongest gains in computer systems design, management and technical consulting, and architectural and engineering services, while legal services lost 9,000 jobs.
A few points that should be obvious —
These are national employment gains, where some parts of the country are doing better than others.
There’s local talk about growth, about growth in-and-of-itself, or (for the more candid) growth as a way out of stagnation. Growth, however, happens in a competitive environment between communities, where prospective residents choose a place they feel, fundamentally, is safe and clean. Safe and clean includes safe streets, clean air & water, and a confidence that officials deliver public services efficiently, economically, and humbly. No sensible person or businessperson — and almost all people are sensible — chooses a place solely because they read a press release or saw a Facebook post.
Prospects will walk about, and look at a community on their own. Marketing decides nothing; at best, it gets the city someone’s first glance. Whitewater spends too much time fussing over marketing, and not enough time acknowledging that new prospects are easily as sensible as any current resident. They can and will judge on their own.
America is a big county, the Midwest is a big region, and Wisconsin is a big place: people will pass over a community that fails in the fundamentals for a community that accomplishes the fundamentals. America is growing — to enjoy some of that growth in Whitewater means setting aside airy claims and being candid. Serious and competitive people respect candor, and will rise to a challenge. They’ll want to be part of a rebuilding project. By contrast, serious people will smile and but then walk away from the latest too-good-to-be-true marketing pitch.
Now, I’m here, and I’ll not be going anywhere else (as there is no place yet half so beautiful to me as Whitewater). Love of this small and beautiful place does not, however, induce blindness. Seeing and thinking clearly about growth means thinking about what people and businesses — the elements of growth — themselves think.
They’ll not settle for marketing; they need to be confident in the fundamentals. Whitewater most certainly can get the fundamentals right, keep them right, and through that dedicated effort enjoy the growth that other places in America now enjoy.
“We are pleased to inform you of the birth of three tiger cubs. Mother and all the three cubs are doing fine. Mother is nursing the cubs regularly and taking proper care. All the three cubs, like their mother, are white in colour,” Mr Rai said on Thursday.
The tiny cubs were born in one of the zoo’s enclosures on 24 August and turned eight days on Thursday, said the zoo’s top official. Keepers waited until the cubs were more than a week old before announcing the birth in a Twitter post.
Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with high of 86. Sunrise is 6:20 AM and sunset 7:28 PM for 13h 07m 57s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 26.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1983, Korean Air Lines Flight 007 is shot down by a Soviet jet fighter when the commercial aircraft enters Soviet airspace, killing all 269 on board, including Congressman Lawrence McDonald.
There is in the Russian dictatorship the chronic problem of tragic falls from open windows. Among the Russian population, there’s no evidence of widespread vertigo. These falls are more singular.
They follow a simple formula: prominent person + speaking out against Putin + a building with a window = tragic accident.
The head of a Russian oil giant that criticized President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine died Thursday after reportedly falling out of his hospital window.
Lukoil Chairman Ravil Maganov died after falling from a window of the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow, Reuters reported, citing two sources familiar with the situation.
The company issued a statement early Thursday confirming the death of Maganov, 67, “after a severe illness,” but did not specify the cause.
“Ravil Maganov immensely contributed to the development of not only the Company, but of the entire Russian oil and gas sector,” the statement read.
NBC News has not verified how he died. The hospital declined to comment and referred comment to the police, who declined to comment.
Lukoil is Russia’s second-largest oil producer. It was a rare Russian business to come out against Putin’s war in Ukraine, which the Kremlin insists on calling its “special military operation.”
The company’s board of directors called for an end to the war in early March, within days of the full-scale invasion of Russia’s neighbor.
Americans who tout Putin’s Russia reject their own constitutional tradition, resting on thousands of years of philosophy and law, for the whims of a corrupt and murderous empire. In America they are, as they should be, free to do so without needing to live in one-story buildings.
Free to do so, but no less repulsive for so doing.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be sunny with high of 84. Sunrise is 6:19 AM and sunset 7:30 PM for 13h 10m 44s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 17.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1939, Nazi Germany mounts a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day, thus starting World War II in Europe.
Wisconsin has two United States senators, and so Whitewater, Wisconsin has two United States senators. (The conservative populists in Whitewater want to talk about national issues until they don’t, after which they insist opportunistically that only hyperlocal discussions matter.)
For months, Sen. Ron Johnson has drawn scrutiny for his office’s role in attempting to deliver false packets of electors to former Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6.
While the Oshkosh Republican continues to downplay his office’s connection to the effort, saying his participation lasted just seconds, one of Wisconsin’s false electors has been working on Johnson’s reelection campaign.
Pam Travis, one of 10 Wisconsin Republicans who signed official-looking paperwork falsely claiming to be a presidential elector in 2020, has been a full-time staffer on Johnson’s competitive reelection bid since March 2022, according to the woman’s LinkedIn profile.
Federal Election Commission reports indicate Johnson’s campaign paid Travis more than $10,200 for her work since April, and the campaign reimbursed Travis for just over $3,500 in mileage costs between May and July.
Johnson will tell his supporters that this election is a context between “Freedom and Socialism.” Indeed, he will probably “spend the next two months going on about the supposed contrast between Freedom and Socialism / Communism / Marxism / Leninism / Syndicalism, etc.” The gullible won’t bother to consult even a dictionary to distinguish between these terms, let alone a proper political science text. It’s a stew of superficiality.
It’s a spew-any-term-or-slogan strategy, however manipulatively used and ignorantly accepted. It’s rally-the-base-or-perish, as he’s nowhere else turn.
Concerning Johnson, however, it’s not enough for reasonable people to turn away from him. It’s necessary that they should lawfully turn against him, each doing his or her part to bring about his defeat.
