It’s simply stating the obvious to report that Shrinking tuition revenue, growing expenses put UW campuses in potentially precarious position: A gap is growing between how much money University of Wisconsin System campuses collect in tuition and how much they budget for costs directly tied to educating students, such as faculty pay and advising. That raises serious questions about what…
City
City, Film
Film: Tuesday, July 24th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, The Leisure Seeker
by JOHN ADAMS •
This Tuesday, July 24th at 12:30 PM, there will be a showing of The Leisure Seeker @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin community building. Paolo Virzì directs the one-hour, fifty-two-minute film: “Traveling in their family Leisure Seeker vintage recreational vehicle, John and Ella Spencer take one last road trip from Boston to the Hemingway…
City, Laws/Regulations, University
The Limits of Messaging
by JOHN ADAMS •
UW-Whitewater quadruples parking without a permit fine Whitewater, like many small towns, is marketing mad: claims, professions, insistence, publicizing, and declarations exceed actual conditions. Newly-increased fines over Whitewater’s available parking spaces on campus illustrate this problem. The local campus is large, relative to the non-campus parts of the city, and that places pressure on both…
City, Film
Film: Wednesday, July 18th, 12:30 PM @ Seniors in the Park, Loving Vincent
by JOHN ADAMS •
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, 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…