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Daily Bread for 11.13.21: Toxic Positivity Is Worse than Annoying as Public Policy

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Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 39.  Sunrise is 6:45 AM and sunset 4:32 PM for 9h 47m 07s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing gibbous with 70.8% of its visible disk illuminated.  On this day in 1940, Walt Disney’s animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the…

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Film: Tuesday, November 9th, 1 PM @ Seniors in the Park, On the Rocks

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Tuesday, November 9th at 1 PM, there will be a showing of On the Rocks @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building: Comedy/Drama/Romance 1 hour, 36 minutes Rated R (mild profanity) (2020) A seventies-something retired art dealer (Bill Murray) is a happy-go-lucky flirtatious ladies man with a roving eye. His married daughter (Rashida Jones) suspects her…

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Boo! Scariest Things in Whitewater, 2021

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Here’s the fifteenth annual FREE WHITEWATER list of the scariest things in Whitewater. (The 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 editions are available for comparison.) The list runs in reverse order, from mildly scary to truly frightening. 10. Feedin’ Wildlife.  I didn’t know — but local officials claim to…

City, Conservative Populism, Daily Bread, Local Government, Politics, School District

Daily Bread for 10.27.21: Rebecca Kleefisch’s Republican ‘Mercenaries’

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Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 58.  Sunrise is 7:24 AM and sunset 5:53 PM for 10h 28m 49s of daytime.  The moon is a waning gibbous with 63% of its visible disk illuminated. The Technology Park Board meets at 8 AM.  On this day in 1961, NASA tests…

City, Culture, Daily Bread, Local Government, Politics, School District

Daily Bread for 10.25.21: Late in the Day Even for Sociability

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Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 52.  Sunrise is 7:21 AM and sunset 5:55 PM for 10h 34m 08s of daytime.  The moon is a waning gibbous with 79.9% of its visible disk illuminated.  Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets at 4:30 PM, the Community Development Authority Seed Capital Committee meets…

Animals, Beautiful Whitewater, City, Daily Bread, Environment, Local Government, Nature, Plants, Press

Daily Bread for 10.24.21: The Otters of Singapore Offer a Lesson for Whitewater, Wisconsin

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Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 51.  Sunrise is 7:20 AM and sunset 5:57 PM for 10h 36m 49s of daytime.  The moon is a waning gibbous with 86.5% of its visible disk illuminated.  On this day in 1946, a camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket [from White Sands…

Bad Ideas, City, Daily Bread, Environment, Nature, Open Government, Press, Water

Daily Bread for 10.22.21: Reporting About Artificial Herbicides in Whitewater, Wisconsin

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Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 51.  Sunrise is 7:18 AM and sunset 6:00 PM for 10h 42m 15s of daytime.  The moon is a waning gibbous with 96.7% of its visible disk illuminated.  On this day in 1707, four British naval vessels run aground on the Isles of Scilly because…

Assault Awareness & Prevention, City, Daily Bread, Law, Litigation, University, UW System

Daily Bread for 10.8.21: Ex-student Stephanie Vander Pas sues for failure of UW-Whitewater to protect her and others from sexual harassment by former chancellor’s husband

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Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will see scattered showers with a high of 72.  Sunrise is 7:01 AM and sunset 6:22 PM for 11h 21m 22s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing crescent with 5.6% of its visible disk illuminated.  On this day in 1871, fire destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin: Peshtigo, Wisconsin was devastated by a…

City, Constitution, Daily Bread, Education, Ethics, History, Insurrection, Politics, Right-wing Populism, School District, Trumpism

Daily Bread for 10.4.21: The Basis of a Civics Syllabus for Whitewater’s Schools

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Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will see scattered showers with a high of 68.  Sunrise is 6:56 AM and sunset 6:29 PM for 11h 32m 49s of daytime.  The moon is a waning crescent with 5.1% of its visible disk illuminated.  On this day in 1957, Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the…

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Daily Bread for 10.3.21: Trumpism as a ‘God and Country Lifestyle Brand’

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Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will see scattered thundershowers with a high of 74.  Sunrise is 6:55 AM and sunset 6:31 PM for 11h 35m 40s of daytime.  The moon is a waning crescent with 10.5% of its visible disk illuminated.  On this day in 1990, the German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the…