?? Tuesday, December 26th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Oppenheimer @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building: Biography/Drama/History Rated R (sexuality, nudity, language) 3 hours, 1 minute (2023) The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, and his role in the development of the atomic bomb. Stars Cillian Murphy,…
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City, Common Council, Daily Bread, Ethics, Local Government
Daily Bread for 12.20.23: An Ethics Committee for a Normal Community
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning.

Wednesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 40. Sunrise is 7:21 and sunset 4:23 for 9h 01m 41s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 58.2% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Park & Rec Board meets at 5:30 PM.
On this day in 1803, the Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans.
Yesterday’s post linked to the agenda and embedded the agenda packet for the Whitewater Common Council session for 12.19.23. Item 22 of the 12.19.23 agenda concerned the city’s Ethics Committee:
22. Discussion and possible action regarding possible retention of outside legal counsel for the ethics committee – City Clerk/HR
General background on procedural events that led to this item is available from WhitewaterWise @ Ethics committee to meet Thursday; council to consider outside legal counsel to advise committee.
A well-ordered town government should be a public institution of laws and procedures, limited in reach, and applied fairly and equally to all. There will always be questions in any community about who did what to whom? Villagers in the foulest hovel in medieval Europe could have asked these same questions, albeit in short lives plagued with disease and poverty.
It is not enough to ask those questions. A well-ordered American town answers those questions methodically, diligently, and fairly. In this way, an ethics committee must give each his or her due (rendre justice) to do justice (rendre la justice).
The advance from a community in the grip of status to a community of free and equal residents depends on doing so.
The city administration’s memo for Item 22 and the city’s Code of Ethics appear below:
Oops — Mission: Impossible Theme Song Interrupts House of Lords Ceremony:
Oops — Mission: Impossible Theme Song Interrupts House of Lords Ceremony:
City, Common Council, Daily Bread, Local Government
Daily Bread for 12.19.23: The Second Council Session in December
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning.

Tuesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 33. Sunrise is 7:21 and sunset 4:23 for 9h 01m 45s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 47% of its visible disk illuminated.
The Whitewater Common Council meets at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1776, Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled “The American Crisis.”
Linked above is the Whitewater Common Council agenda for the first council meeting of December. Embedded below is the full agenda packet for the session.
After Weeks of Warnings, Iceland Volcano Erupts in Plumes of Fire:
After Weeks of Warnings, Iceland Volcano Erupts in Plumes of Fire: