Saturday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 83. Sunrise is 5:43 AM and sunset 8:18 PM for 14h 34m 45s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 85.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
Friday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 93. Sunrise is 5:42 AM and sunset 8:19 PM for 14h 36m 52s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 77.4% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day, the “model industrial village” of Kohler became an armed camp of National Guard cavalrymen after deadly strike-related rioting. The July 27th violence, which killed two Sheboygan men and injured 40 others, prompted the summoning of 250 Guardsmen to join the 200 special deputy village marshals already present.
After striking workers became agitated and began to destroy company property, deputies turned to tear gas, rifles, and shotguns to quell the stone-throwing crowd, resulting in the deaths and injuries. Owner Walter Kohler blamed Communists and outside agitators for the violence, while union leaders blamed Kohler exclusively. Workers at the Kohler plant were demanding better hours, higher wages, and recognition of the American Federation of Labor as their collective bargaining agent.
Not settled until 1941, the strike marked the beginning of what was to become a prolonged struggle between the Kohler Company and organized labor in Wisconsin; a second Kohler strike lasted from 1954 to 1965.
On Wednesday, 7.26.23, the City of Whitewater’s Fire & Emergency Services Department issued the following press release about receiving paramedic certification:
Fire and EMS Department obtains Paramedic Certification
Whitewater, Wis. July 26, 2023 – The City of Whitewater Fire and Emergency Medical Department has obtained its Paramedic service license.
The City of Whitewater is excited to announce that effective today, our Whitewater Fire & Emergency Medical Services (FEMS) Department has obtained its Paramedic service license. This significant achievement has been a result of countless hours of hard work and dedication from a team of committed individuals. The City of Whitewater wants to extend our heartfelt gratitude to everyone involved in making this long-awaited process a reality. City of Whitewater wants to personally thank EMS Chief, Jason Dean. This is a direct result of his leadership and dedication.
As we move forward, FEMS is diligently working on procuring the necessary supplies, obtaining a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) number, and acquiring the required medications to ensure our Paramedic service operates at its full potential. Presently, we have five licensed Paramedics who are in the process of submitting their Local Credentialing Agreements for approval through our Medical Control, under the leadership of Interim Lt. Crystal Griffin.
During the next 12 months, FEMS will be gradually transitioning to a fully operational Paramedic service. Our Paramedics will be informed about the specific skills they are authorized to perform as we equip them with the necessary equipment and supplies. Though the City aims to expedite this process, our top priority remains to effectively and accurately provide this elevated level of service for our department.
The City must commend the enthusiasm and dedication of our Paramedics and support team, who are excited to put their well-honed skills and expertise into practice. However, the City kindly ask for your understanding and patience during this time of transition, as their training and adaptation will require considerable effort and focus.
FEMS will be providing direct communication to our Paramedics regarding the next steps in this transformative journey. As a community, let us rally together in support of FEMS department, appreciating the invaluable services they provide to keep us safe and protected.
So, what is this?
It’s normal and responsible government. Not always easy to achieve, but always a worthy effort.
Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 92. Sunrise is 5:41 AM and sunset 8:20 PM for 14h 38m 55s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 67.3% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1940, the animated short A Wild Hare is released, introducing the character of Bugs Bunny.
National economic growth is no assurance of Whitewater’s local prosperity (as it has not been, after all, this last decade), but national growth provides, at least, the prospect of local growth.
The economic recovery gained momentum in the spring as buoyant consumer spending and resurgent business investment helped, once again, to keep a recession at bay.
Gross domestic product, adjusted for inflation, rose at a 2.4 percent annual rate in the second quarter, the Commerce Department said Thursday. That was up from a 2 percent growth rate in the first three months of the year and far stronger than forecasters expected a few months ago.
Consumers led the way, as they have throughout the recovery from the severe but short-lived pandemic recession in 2020. Spending rose at a 1.6 percent rate, slower than in the first quarter but still solid. Much of that growth came from spending on services, as consumers shelled out for vacation travel, restaurant meals and Taylor Swift tickets.
Consumers didn’t carry all the weight, however. Business investment rebounded in the second quarter after slumping in the first three months of the year, and increased spending by state and local governments contributed to growth.
“If you’re looking for a working definition of ‘resilient,’ look no further than the American economy,” said Joseph Brusuelas, chief economist at RSM.
Wednesday in Whitewater will see morning thunderstorms with a high of 89. Sunrise is 5:40 AM and sunset 8:21 PM for 14h 40m 57s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 57.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1775, the office that would later become the United States Post Office Department is established by the Second Continental Congress. Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania takes office as Postmaster General.
iHeartRadio.com, being the top-notch scholary journal clickbait mill that it is, has a 2023 post linking to a 2020 peer-reviewed research paper dog-crap article on The Most Stressed City in Each State. The 2020 article lists Whitewater as the most stressed city in Wisconsin.
The formula for clickbait articles like this is to create an appearance, however flimsy, of a serious method: select a grab bag of measurements, apportion those measurements equally or even without any disclosure of apportionment, and then rank communities by them. Abracadabra!: a list of communities from most to least stressed. Using figures from six to ten years ago, the result somehow claims that Whitewater — of all places in the state — is the most stressed.
I’m sure there are people in Whitewater who are stressed, but a few measures of dubious weighting using stale data serve iHeartRadio and the article’s original author (Zippia, ‘The Career Expert’) only as a way to attract website clicks.
Why would this libertarian blogger mention the re-publication of an article that anyone with a GED, high school, technical school, college, graduate, or professional education should see as nonsense?
At that time, the university made sure to flack this nonsense prominently on its website.
For some of us, respect for a high school, college, graduate school, or professional school education requires us to honor the legacy of the men and women who taught us proper standards of reasoning and method. No one honors an academic institution by debasing academic standards.
The use of dodgy studies for marketing seems initially clever and practical, until someone else later comes along and deprecates the same community with the very technique the earlier dodgy effort used.
Live by clickbait marketing then, perish by clickbait marketing now.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 89. Sunrise is 5:39 AM and sunset 8:22 PM for 14h 42m 57s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 47% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1897, author Jack London embarks on a sailing trip to take part in the Klondike’s gold rush, from which he wrote his first successful stories
This week, the control tower at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh will be the busiest in the world, as it’s set to welcome 10,000 flyers for the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual AirVenture.
The event is billed as the world’s largest air show and fly-in convention, and is expected to draw over half a million visitors to the Fox Valley. The week-long festivities include daily air shows, pyrotechnics, feature films at a fly-in theater, forums, workshops, demonstrations and more.
Beyond celebrating aviation, AirVenture has grown to become a major economic development tool for Oshkosh and surrounding communities. A 2017 UW-Oshkosh study found the event’s economic impact was $170 million spread across Winnebago, Fond du Lac, Outagamie, Brown and Calumet counties. Adjusted for inflation, that number is now north of $200 million.
Monday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 87. Sunrise is 5:38 AM and sunset 8:23 PM for 14h 44m 55s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 37% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets at 4:30 PM.
On this day in 1974, the United States Supreme Court unanimously rules that President Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
They gathered at Guisachan House, where the first goldens were bred in 1868 by Sir Dudley Marjoribanks. The Golden Retriever Club of Scotland hosts these events every five years to honor their roots.
Sunday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 83. Sunrise is 5:37 AM and sunset 8:24 PM for 14h 46m 49s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 27.7% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1972, the United States launches Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite.
Here in Berlin, police are saying a lion they’ve been searching for since Thursday night is probably not a lion at all. After re-evaluating this video that sparked the hunt, authorities now say it’s more likely… a wild boar!
The mayor of the small town just outside Berlin where over a hundred officers had been searching for the phantom feline – delivered the big news.
Saturday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 81. Sunrise is 5:36 AM and sunset 8:25 PM for 14h 48m 42s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 19.6% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1933, aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, completing the first solo flight around the world in seven days, 18 hours, and 49 minutes.
Residents of a suburb outside Fort Lauderdale, Fla., don’t quite know what to do about their new neighbors: dozens of domesticated rabbits, and counting.
An estimated 75 rabbits have made their home on Jenada Isles, a small community of about 80 households within the suburb of Wilton Manors, after a former resident moved away a couple of years ago and left behind a pair of pet lionhead rabbits that bred. Officials and residents are weighing solutions that would spare the rabbits from getting euthanized and still keep them out of lawns, roads and the Florida heat.
One resident concerned about the rabbits’ safety showed up to a community meeting in May with three pet rabbits in a stroller, according to the city, which was unable to identify the man.
Jenada Isles is technically an island within the suburb, surrounded by canals, which has contained the rabbit colony and allowed them to multiply in a small space.
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In an emailed statement, Chief Blocker said, “The safety of this rabbit population is of utmost importance to the city.”
“Any decision to involve ourselves will be certain to see these rabbits placed into the hands of people with a passion to provide the necessary care and love for these rabbits,” he added.
On Friday, Chief Blocker emailed a status update to the residents of Jenada Isles that said that discussions with a rescue organization would continue and that next steps included identifying prospective funding and receiving approval from Wilton Manors and a written agreement for the services provided.
“If anyone has interest in fostering rabbits, please let us know and we will place you on a list,” he wrote.
Anecdotally, it seems as though a disproportionate number of weird tales, unfortunate events, or wrongful acts originate in Florida.
Friday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 81. Sunrise is 5:36 AM and sunset 8:26 PM for 14h 50m 32s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 13.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
Wisconsin’s labor force is continuing its post-pandemic expansion, the latest data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows.
The total of number of nonfarm-related jobs across Wisconsin grew to more than 3 million as of June 2023.
That’s a record high and an increase of about 52,900 jobs compared to a year prior, according to an analysis of the preliminary numbers by Wisconsin’s Department of Workforce Development. Since May, the state added 6,900 nonfarm jobs, the estimate shows.
“Businesses continue to hire and those that do get laid off aren’t laid off for very long, so it’s pretty strong jobs market still here in Wisconsin,” Dennis Winters, DWD’s chief economist, said Thursday.
The state is bigger than the city, and many jobs in the state have wages higher than those in the city. And yet, and yet, it is better for the city that Wisconsin does well than that Wisconsin does poorly.
Employment trends are moving favorably overall, and that’s a reason for sober-minded optimism.
Tuesday, July 25th at 1:00 PM, there will be a showing of Colossus: The Forbin Project @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building:
Science Fiction/Thriller
PG-13
1 hour, 41 minutes. (1970)
It’s been said that science fiction anticipates the future and reality. Equate that with AI or artificial intelligence. In this well-regarded classic film, an Elon-Musk type electronics genius builds a super computer with a mind of its own. Or so he thinks, until he learns, so have the Soviets. When the two artificial intelligences begin to communicate with each other, machines’ world domination over humans beings is imminent. Stars Eric Braeden, Susan Clark and William Schallert.
Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 80. Sunrise is 5:35 AM and sunset 8:27 PM for 14h 52m 19s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 7.3% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets at 5:30 PM.
On this day in 1972, an 18-and-a-half-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between President Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
Whitewater has a city government, public school district, and public university, but these three government institutions are not enough to assure Whitewater the prosperous future she deserves. Manipulation of these institutions over the last generation, through various schemes of landlords, bankers, and supposed public-relations men has not brought happy times to the city; what’s left of these types offers even less for the future.
And yet, and yet, even if Whitewater had stronger institutions and fewer scheming types, the community would still need competent, useful private efforts aimed at uplifting residents.
In early 2022, [aerospace engineer Marina] Bloomer officially leased an office space in Middleton and held her first set of summer camps last year. Centered on hands-on experiments and the engineering design process, Bloomer said she aimed to bring something new to Madison to add to the “really great STEM programming already in Madison.”
“There’s so much more to engineering, learning how to problem solve like an engineer and learning how to build things with your hands out of materials,” she said. “Basically, how do you start from just a problem and a blank sheet of paper and end up with something that you made yourself that works the way it’s supposed to work and that journey to get there is what it means to be an engineer.”
That’s the process Elizabeth Younkle got to see last summer, walking into a space that greets students with a colorful sign reminding them that “the future is yours to create.”
Younkle, now a seventh-grader, has been interested in STEM “forever, basically,” she said, but camps she attended before Stellar Tech Girls were dominated by boys. In those situations, the group doesn’t always “accept me as one of them, which is a bit hard,” she said, so being surrounded by girls “was really amazing.”
“I got to meet people who had the same interests as me and that’s not a thing that usually happens, it’s usually me and a whole bunch of other people who either don’t want to be there or are guys,” she said. “So it’s awesome having people who I identify with and who I feel like understand me.”
This summer, there are three weeklong sessions in June for “Stellar Explorer” camp, three in July for “Stellar Chemistry” camp, four in August for “Stellar Space” camp and two at the end of August for “Stellar Energy” camp. The camps cost $250 in early registration by April 1 or $280 after, with some scholarships available, with three-hour sessions each day in either the morning or the afternoon.
Whitewater won’t succeed on the basis of Old Whitewater’s boosterism, toxic positivity, or yesterday’s mediocre work. To meet both basic human needs and aspirations, this community should put government in its properly limited place, discard tired hangers-on who treat government as a special account, and turn away from nostalgia sufferers who think the past was just dandy.
Find new, promote new, and we will have a new and better Whitewater.
