This Wednesday, June 20th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Call Me By Your Name @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Luca Guadagnino directs the two-hour, seventeen minute film set in 1980s Italy, about a “romance that blossoms between a seventeen year-old student and the older man hired […]
One reads that God, hearing the grumblings of the ancient Israelite community, once fed that people: 11 The LORD said to Moses: 12 I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites. Tell them: In the evening twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will have your fill of bread, and then you will know that I, […]
This Tuesday, June 12th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Wonder @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Stephen Chbosky directs the one-hour, fifty-three minute film based on a New York Times bestseller, telling the inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters […]
One hopes – sometimes in fulfillment, sometimes in vain – that the simple circumstances of a small town might encourage humility in discernment. In the course of listening to politics, one may encounter a local politics that is grandiose where it should be plain. Indeed, local claims of this kind may arrogate to people and […]
This Tuesday, May 29th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of I, Tonya @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Craig Gillespie directs the two-hour biographical comedy-drama about competitive skater Tonya Harding as she rises in the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future is thrown into doubt […]
This Tuesday, May 22nd at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of The Post @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Steven Spielberg directs the one-hour, fifty-six minute historical drama about a “cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country’s first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an […]
A man wants to impress his girlfriend, someone he professes to love, so he asks her what she’d like for a present – anything at all she might want. She tells him that she’s been thinking about getting a car. “That’s wonderful,” he exclaims. “I’ll get you something special!” Before she can even suggest a […]
In Whitewater, by press release (twice), one can read about the supposed benefits of the Trump tax plan. The Whitewater Community Development Authority’s executive director, Dave Carlson, was quick to push a portion of the plan as good for Whitewater. In doing so, he conceded what anyone observing Whitewater with care and concern already knew: […]
Samuel Stebbins and Michael B. Sauter, from 24/7 Wall Street, report Which town in your state is the poorest? Here is the list @ Gannett’s USA Today. For Wisconsin, they contend it’s Whitewater: Town median household income: $30,934 State median household income: $54,610 Town poverty rate: 38.2% Town population: 14,840 Whitewater has both the lowest median household income and the […]
Sometimes, however rarely, even in places with the most stubborn boosterism, an official admits – wittingly or unwittingly – the failure of longstanding policy. Dave Carlson, executive director of the Whitewater Community Development Authority, is such an official. In a press release from March 27th, lauding a provision of the Trump tax bill, Carlson quotes […]
This Tuesday, May 8th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Lady Bird @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Greta Gerwig directs (and wrote) the one-hour, thirty-four minute comedy-drama about an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl coming of age in 2002 in Sacramento, California. The cast features Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, and Tracy […]
Embed from Getty Images A man walks into a party, and sees a woman universally acknowledged as intelligent, knowledgeable, and beautiful. He’s instantly smitten, and decides that he must – simply must! – declare his admiration that very evening. The man approaches, introduces himself, and tells her that he’s wholly captivated. He proclaims a commitment […]
Well, here we are: after all these years of hearing that the town fathers were descended from Olympus, to a city of their unsurpassable design, one hears the Whitewater Common Council discussing the sometime problem of public urination. Needless to say, I don’t support this foul habit, and have not met anyone who does. Confronted […]
Jason Stein and Rick Romell report Foxconn: Glass maker could want hundreds of millions of dollars to locate alongside massive Wisconsin factory: To locate in Wisconsin, a key glass supplier to Foxconn wants financial help from the Taiwanese electronics giant or state taxpayers that could run into the hundreds of millions of dollars. … Corning […]