This Wednesday, July 18th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Loving Vincent @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman direct the one-hour, thirty-four-minute animated biography: A year after the death of the artist, Vincent van Gogh, Postman Roulin gets his slacker son, Armand, to hand…
City
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, July 10th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, All the Money in the World
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, July 10th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of All the Money in the World @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Ridley Scott directs the two-hour, twelve-minute biography crime drama: Rome, 1973. Masked men kidnap a teenage boy named John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer). His grandfather,…
Business, CDA, City, Local Government, Open Government, Public Records 2
Public Records Request of 6.26.18 (Grocery)
by JOHN ADAMS •
Yesterday’s post addressed open government aspects of an unrecorded council meeting. See Public Records Request of 6.26.18 (Open Government). This post will consider a slide presentation from the unrecorded Whitewater Community Development Authority presentation of 6.19.18 on grocery store recruitment. Embedded immediately below is that slide presentation, and a link to the 5.19.16 Perkins supermarket…
Bad Ideas, City, Economy, Employment, Foxconn, Gov. Walker, Government Spending, State Capitalism, State Government, Trump
Foxconn’s Bait & Switch
by JOHN ADAMS •
It’s a groundbreaking ceremony for (a much smaller) Foxconn today. This very morning one reads confirmation – yet again – that taxpayers’ billions for Foxconn are paying for a project that’s now a giant bait & switch. Rick Romell reports Foxconn scales back plans for its first factory in Mount Pleasant: The Foxconn Technology Group manufacturing…
City, Law, Open Government, Public Records 2
Public Records Request of 6.26.18
by JOHN ADAMS •
Here’s a brief post to describe a public records request that I submitted to the City of Whitewater and Whitewater Community Development Authority on 6.26.18. The request – in summary – comprised three items: 1. Any audio or video recording of the 6.19.18 Common Council session, including a recording of only part of the full…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, June 26th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, Murder on the Orient Express
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, June 26th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of Murder on the Orient Express @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Kenneth Branagh directs the one-hour, fifty-four minute film of Agatha Christie’s famous murder mystery. Hercule Poirot finds himself asked to solve a murder that’s taken place on the…
City, Film
Film: Wednesday, June 20th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, Call Me By Your Name
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
Bad Ideas, City, Economy, Employment, Foxconn, Gov. Walker, Government Spending, State Capitalism, State Government, Technology, Trump
Foxconn’s Shabby Workplace Conditions
by JOHN ADAMS •
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,…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, June 12th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, Wonder
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
City, Local Government, Religion
Humility in Discerning God’s Will
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, May 29th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, I, Tonya
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, May 22nd, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, The Post
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
Bad Ideas, CDA, City, Disinformation, Government Spending, Local Government
Buying Whitewater a Present
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
CDA, City, Corporate Welfare, Development, Economy, Free Markets, Gov. Walker, Marketing, Politics, Poverty, State Capitalism, State Government, Taxes/Taxation, That Which Paved the Way, Trump
About that Trump Tax Plan
by JOHN ADAMS •
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:…