Whitewater’s school board met in regular session on Monday night, with an agenda of 16 items, of varying importance. In a two-hour, open-session discussion of over a dozen items, with topics great and small (and at least one board member as interested in wheedling or badgering himself into future meetings as any deeper question), there…
City
Babbittry, Boosterism, City, Culture, Philosophy, Religion
That’s Been Done for Generations
by JOHN ADAMS •
The Atlantic has a story, from Faith Hill (not the singer, obviously), about how gatherings of atheists in Secular Churches Rethink Their Sales Pitch (‘They Tried to Start a Church Without God. For a While, It Worked). These groups are learning – like all civic groups – that it’s hard to sustain membership. There’s nothing…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, July 23rd, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, Shazam!
by JOHN ADAMS •
? This Tuesday, July 23rd at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Shazam! @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building: Tuesday, July 23; 12:30 PM (Action/Adventure/Comedy) Rated PG-13; 2 hours, 12 minutes (2019). As a kid, who didn’t dream of being invincible and able to leap tall buildings in a…
America, City, Film, History, Science/Nature, Space
Apollo 11: NASA and Civilians Remember the Moon Landing
by JOHN ADAMS •
“It was a feeling that went throughout the world, almost like an electric bolt,” one woman remembers of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The lunar landing, which celebrates its 50th anniversary on July 20, is collectively remembered in the film by a handful of the 530 million people who watched the event live on national…
America, City, Cruelty, Culture, Immigration, Liberty, Migrants, Trump
National Ennobles Local
by JOHN ADAMS •
City, Film
Film: Wednesday, July 17th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, The Long Gray Line
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Wednesday, July 17th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of The Long Gray Line @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building: “The Long Gray Line” (Biography/Drama/Sports) Wednesday, July 17, 12:30 pm Rated G; 2 hours, 18 minutes; Technicolor (1955). In 1898, a salt-of-the-earth Irish immigrant, Martin Maher (Tyrone Power), is…
City, Education, School District
Changes at Whitewater Middle School
by JOHN ADAMS •
One reads that Whitewater Middle School principal Tanya Wojciechowicz has resigned, after a few months in which her departure seemed probable. For those months, one version or another of this post awaited publishing. The best one can now confidently say is that Whitewater Middle School will for months remain a work in progress. It…
America, Asylum, City, Good Ideas, Immigration, Liberty
Lights for Liberty
by JOHN ADAMS •
LIGHTS for LIBERTY is a national movement to unite Americans from across this continent on the evening of July 12th, 2019. (In Whitewater residents will be gathering in support of migrants’ rights at the Cravath Lakefront at 8:30 PM.) We are a coalition of people, many of whom are mothers, dedicated to human rights, and…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, July 9th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, On the Basis of Sex
by JOHN ADAMS •
? This Tuesday, July 9th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of On the Basis of Sex @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building: “On the Basis of Sex” (Biography/Drama) Tuesday, July 9, 12:30 pm PG-13; 2 hours (2018) The true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights…
Babbittry, Bad Ideas, CDA, City, Corporate Welfare, Development, Economy, Employment, Government Spending, Local Government, Poverty, Scott Walker, State Capitalism, State Government, That Which Paved the Way, WEDC
Three Fundamental Failures: Employment, Income, and Poverty
by JOHN ADAMS •
An earlier post addressed Walker’s Fundamental Failure to meet his jobs pledge even after eight years. The record is much worse: years of corporate subsidies and meddling in the marketplace for preferred businesses & political cronies have produced failures of employment, income, and poverty. (Small town officials who copied this approach on the local level, as…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, June 25th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, Isn’t It Romantic
by JOHN ADAMS •
? This Tuesday, June 25th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Isn’t It Romantic @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building: “Isn’t It Romantic” (Comedy/Fantasy/Romance) Tuesday, June 25, 12:30 pm Rated PG-13; 1 hour, 29 minutes OK, all of you fans of Hallmark Channel romance comedies: this one’s for you! A…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, June 11th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, What They Had
by JOHN ADAMS •
? This Tuesday, June 11th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of What They Had @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building: “What They Had” (Family/Drama) Tuesday, June 11, 12:30 pm Rated R (language) (2018) Bridget (Hilary Swank) returns home to Chicago at her brother’s (Michael Shannon) urging to deal with…
City, Culture, Newspapers
Another Local Paper Changes Hands
by JOHN ADAMS •
Local newspapers are changing ownership quickly now. Knox gave up publishing the Jefferson County Daily Union in December, and now Bliss will sell the Janesville Gazette (and radio stations) this June. These changes of ownership are not coming because the papers are strong: these sales are halfway to fire sales. The new, common ownership (APG)…
City, Film
Film: Wednesday, June 5th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, Secondhand Lions
by JOHN ADAMS •
? This Wednesday, June 5th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Secondhand Lions @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building: “Secondhand Lions” (Comedy/Drama/Family) Wednesday, June 5, 12:30 pm Rated PG; 1 hour, 51 minutes (2003) A coming-of-age story about a shy, young boy sent by his irresponsible mother to…