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Seven Days, Twenty-Three Hours

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Here’s a press release with more info on the October 1st Pork in the Park event at the Cravath lakefront. The release – with info on the day’s happenings – can be enlarged or printed from the link immediately below the embedded image. Please note that some events begin before the regular 10 a.m. start…

City, Economy, Planning, Wisconsin

Wisconsin’s median income plunged over the last decade

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Shocking, and proof of infuriating, disgraceful political failure. Down 14.5%, far worse than the American average (itself an unwelcome decline). Of what use were so many grand, much-touted state and municipal projects? One Next Big Thing after another, and all of them doing nothing to prevent a double-digit decline in common people’s incomes. Every big-talking…

City, Innovation Center/Tech Park

The Innovation Center, Virtual and Real

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Every exercise in puffery about the taxpayer-funded Innovation Center is an opportunity to demonstrate how wasteful the project really is. The gentlemen behind the project would do better to say nothing about it than to hype it yet again, but that they cannot do: insisting on the grandeur of that empty effort is who they…

City

Whitewater-Area League of Women Voters September 2011 Newsletter

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The Whitewater-Area League of Women Voters’ September 2011 Newsletter is out, with articles and a calendar of upcoming LWV events. The latest copy of the LWV newsletter is available as a link on my blogroll, and is embedded below, with coding through Google. Upcoming events: Date: September 10th (Saturday) Event: Whitewater Area LWV Board Meeting…

City, Police

During Whitewater’s Police Chief Search

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We’re in the midst of a police chief search (candidate and August 26th forum information available online), but like the mid-point of many searches, there’s only a bit to say. Open Over Closed. An open process is better, in-and-of-itself, than a closed one. Open is the right course. Outcomes matter. No matter how fine the…

City, Government Spending

The Libertarian Party’s Right on Target on Municipal Debt

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A portion of yesterday’s Monday message from the LP appears below, from that party’s executive director. I’ve included the portion that would stand out even if not posted by itself: the role of municipal governments in profligately issuing public debt (as bonds) for local projects. It’s true that increased indebtedness occurs under Republicans as much…

City, School District

Innovation in Whitewater

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There’s so much talk about innovation in Whitewater, but an example of it will be found in an old institution, not a new building. It’s not a center, but a school district, that holds innovative promise for our city. Here’s why: A Solid Record. Looking at the last two years, one sees quickly that the…

City, Crime, Laws/Regulations, Liberty

Whitewater’s Concealed Carry Debate

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Concealed carry legislation went to the governor, and he signed it, about a month ago. (For an overview of that legislation, see Mary Spicuzza’s Concealed carry bill heads to Walker for signature. A provision of the bill allows communities to place restrictions on the presence of otherwise lawfully-concealed weapons, beyond the restrictions (police stations, court…