Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 36. Sunrise is 7:10 AM and sunset 4:20 PM for 9h 09m 58s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 2.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1775, from Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge,…
Business
Business, Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 11.15.21: Washington, D.C. Is About to Look Nicer
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 37. Sunrise is 6:48 AM and sunset 4:31 PM for 9h 42m 48s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 86.7% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Library Board meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1864, Union General William Tecumseh…
Business, Daily Bread, Employment, Free Markets, Immigration, Labor
Daily Bread for 10.20.21: Ending ICE Raids at Workplaces
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 70. Sunrise is 7:15 AM and sunset 6:03 PM for 10h 47m 42s of daytime. The moon is full with 100% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1803, the United States Senate ratifies (24-7) the Louisiana Purchase. Free markets include markets…
Business, Daily Bread, Development, Foxconn
Daily Bread for 10.2.21: Foxconn Slips Away in the Night
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 79. Sunrise is 6:54 AM and sunset 6:33 PM for 11h 38m 32s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 18.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 2018, the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is murdered in the Saudi…
Business, City, Daily Bread, Development, Economy, Free Markets, Poverty
Daily Bread for 10.1.21: The Truth About ‘Dollar’ Stores
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 88. Sunrise is 6:53 AM and sunset 6:34 PM for 11h 41m 25s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 27.2% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1941, Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida. Whitewater may one…
Business, Coronavirus, Employment, Free Markets, Labor, Private Property, Vaccines
No Shirt, No Shoes? No Service
by JOHN ADAMS •
The conservative populists talk endlessly about the dangers of socialism (however poorly they grasp the term), but truthfully they’re happy with government mandates or prohibitions that advance their own preferences. Some private employers want to require masks, and others want to require vaccinations, but these right-wing interventionists now screech that private businesses should not be…
Business, Insurrection, Politics
The Sedition Caucus Gets Paid
by JOHN ADAMS •
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) reports This sedition is brought to you by… In the wake of the Capitol insurrection on January 6th, nearly two hundred corporations and industry groups said they would pause or altogether stop making political contributions to the 147 members of Congress who voted against certifying the election and…
Business, Economy, Free Markets, Labor, Lobbyists
Businesses, Workers, Goods, and Services
by JOHN ADAMS •
Over at Dan Shafer’s Recombobulation Area, guest columnist Shawn Phetteplace reminds us that WMC Doesn’t Speak for All Businesses. Phetteplace, the state manager for the Main Street Alliance, writes that When former Gov. Scott Walker declared Wisconsin “Open for Business,” what he meant was it was open for deregulation, tax cuts, and special deals to…
Business, Corporate Welfare, Foxconn, State Capitalism, State Government
After Years of Promises, Foxconn Will Think of Something…by July
by JOHN ADAMS •
Years of claims, promises, declarations, announcements (and private homes destroyed along the way), and yet Foxconn still needs a bit of time to think of something to make. Just give ‘em a sec, they come up with something by July: Liu said that the company will announce what it will make in Wisconsin before July.…
Business, City, Coronavirus, Economy, Free Markets
Buy Local Will Change
by JOHN ADAMS •
The pandemic has made takeout and delivery more valuable than ever, not only for convenience but also for reduced exposure. In larger cities, some changes to restaurant delivery (among other services) have been building for years, and are likely to be permanent. See Heated patios, QR code menus and pop-ups: Milwaukee restaurants got innovative during…
Business, CDA, Charity, Development, Economics, Economy, Failure, Free Markets, Government Spending, Innovation Center/Tech Park, Poverty, Press Release
Markets and Markets
by JOHN ADAMS •
One reads that Whitewater now has an option, for most of the city, of grocery delivery from nearby cities. As it is, Whitewater has a Walmart, but no stand-alone, full-service grocery. Private delivery service is a benefit to the community. It’s better to have more grocery options than fewer. These are private enterprises providing private delivery…
Bad Ideas, Boosterism, Business, CDA, Corporate Welfare, Foxconn, Gov. Walker, Government Spending, Speaker Vos, State Capitalism, Taxes/Taxation, Technology, Trump, WEDC, Wisconsin, WISGOP
Highlight’s from The Verge’s Foxconn Assessment
by JOHN ADAMS •
No failure better reveals the bankruptcy of corporate welfare in the Walker and Trump years than the Foxconn project in Wisconsin: exaggeration upon exaggeration, but nothing productive. This was a failure of judgment so obvious and significant that everyone involved should retire from policymaking. Walker Administration, Trump Administration, the WISGOP, the WEDC, down to Whitewater’s Community…
Bad Ideas, Boosterism, Business, CDA, Corporate Welfare, Foxconn, Gov. Walker, Government Spending, Speaker Vos, State Capitalism, State Government, Technology, WEDC, WISGOP
Accountability Comes Calling at Foxconn
by JOHN ADAMS •
After years of grandiose – ludicrous, truly – claims about Foxconn from Trump to Vos to boosters in Whitewater, Accountability has made her way to Foxconn. If not Accountability personified, then at least Missy Hughes (the new, Evers-appointed leader) of a slightly-reformed WEDC. Josh Dzieza of the national publication The Verge reports Wisconsin denies Foxconn tax…