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Daily Bread for 5.23.23: A Wisconsin Shared Revenue Deal Hasn’t Been Imminent for Months (Obviously)

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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 83. Sunrise is 5:24 AM and sunset 8:19 PM for 14h 55m 03s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 14.3% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in  1854, the Milwaukee and Mississippi railroad reached Madison, connecting the city…

Budget, Daily Bread, Local Government, State Government, Wisconsin

Daily Bread for 5.19.23: Wait, So It’s WISGOP Assembly v. WISGOP Senate? Hard to Believe These Congenial & Cooperative Politicians Can’t Agree Among Themselves

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Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 65. Sunrise is 5:27 AM and sunset 8:15 PM for 14h 47m 52s of daytime. The moon is new with nearly none of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1780, New England’s Dark Day, an unusual darkening of the day…

Budget, Daily Bread, Local Government, State Government, Wisconsin

Daily Bread for 5.18.23: Wisconsin Assembly Passes Revised Shared Revenue Bill

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Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 74. Sunrise is 5:28 AM and sunset 8:14 PM for 14h 45m 57s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 1.5% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets at 5:30 PM.  On this day in 1756, the…

Budget, Daily Bread, Government Spending, Local Government, State Government, Wisconsin

Daily Bread for 2.21.23: Will Wisconsin Find a Shared Revenue Resolution?

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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 32. Sunrise is 6:41 AM and sunset 5:34 PM for 10h 52m 56s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 2.3% of its visible disk illuminated.  On this day in 1947, in New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first “instant camera,” the…

Budget, City, Daily Bread, Demographics, Economy, Poverty, School District

Daily Bread for 7.27.22: Brief Implications of Whitewater’s (Socio-Economic) Condition

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Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 82. Sunrise is 5:42 AM and sunset 8:20 PM for 14h 38m 26s of daytime.  The moon is a waning crescent with 1.5% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1974, in the Watergate scandal, the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27…

Budget, City, Daily Bread, Demographics, Economy, Poverty, School District

Daily Bread for 7.26.22: Slides on Whitewater’s (Socio-Economic) Condition

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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 80. Sunrise is 5:41 AM and sunset 8:21 PM for 14h 40m 28s of daytime.  The moon is a waning crescent with 4.8% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Finance Committee meets at 4:30 PM. On this day in 1948, President Truman signs Executive…

Bad Ideas, Boosterism, Budget, Education, University, UW System

Tommy Thompson @ UW-Whitewater: Day Late, Dollar Short

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Former governor and current UW System president Tommy Thompson spoke at a UW-Whitewater Faculty Senate meeting on Tuesday. Thompson addressed a campus that confronts statewide funding reductions, a tuition freeze, repeated administrative scandals and failures over the last decade, a decline in the conventional student-age demographic, and competitive pressures from other universities. For all these…

Budget, City, Demographics, Government Spending, University, UW System, Wisconsin

UW-Whitewater’s Budgetary Challenges Require a Studied Approach

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Whitewater is a college town. If a college town, then a college: the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. I’ve written about the university now and again. A simple summary of my views would be that Whitewater benefits from having a university, but that the school’s leaders (notably Telfer and Kopper) have failed both individuals and the community.…

Budget, CDA, City, Government Spending, Local Government, Open Government

Whitewater Common Council Meeting, 10.6.20: 9 Points

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The Whitewater Common Council last met on 10.6.20. The agenda for the meeting is available, and a recording of the early October session appears above. (As always, the best record is a recording.) Council discussed, among other items, Trick or Treating during the pandemic, a preliminary city budget, whether to return to in-person council meetings,…

Budget, Coronavirus, Public Health, University, UW Madison, UW System

UW System President Ray Cross’s Overreach

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Outgoing UW System President Ray Cross claims he has a long-range plan for the System, and he’s insistent that now is the time for its implementation. Henry Redman of the Wisconsin Examiner reports on the reasonable concern that Cross’s rush to implementation presents in UW faculty worry about ‘power grab’ by Cross at budget listening…