Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 73. Sunrise is 6:46 AM and sunset 6:46 PM for 12h 00m 06s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 78.7% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater School Board goes into closed session shortly after 6:30 PM and returns…
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Daily Bread for 9.22.23: A Dog-Bite Story (That’s Not Only About Dogs)
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of 76. Sunrise is 6:42 AM and sunset 6:51 PM for 12h 08m 45s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 47.2% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1862, a preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation is released…
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Daily Bread for 9.21.23: What’s Left of Old Whitewater’s Politicians Put Past Practice Ahead of Principle or Reason
by JOHN ADAMS • • 5 Comments
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Daily Bread for 9.19.23: There’s a Reason Some Local Politicians Have No Platform
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Daily Bread for 9.13.23: Who Holds the Leash?
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
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Daily Bread for 8.14.23: Two Wisconsin Congressmen Beg Court on Behalf of Their Donors
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Daily Bread for 12.12.22: Calories and Compromise
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Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 37. Sunrise is 7:16 AM and sunset 4:21 PM for 9h 04m 15s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 83.6% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets at 6 PM. On this day in 1941, as part of the Holocaust, Hitler…
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Daily Bread for 10.10.22: He Won’t Divest — He’ll Only Say He Has
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 67. Sunrise is 7:03 AM and sunset 6:19 PM for 11h 16m 22s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 99.4% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets at 6 PM. On this day in 1492, the crew of Christopher…
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Daily Bread for 12.16.21: Michael ❤ Rebecca
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny, with strong winds subsiding, and a high of 36. Sunrise is 7:19 AM and sunset 4:22 PM for 9h 02m 17s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 93.9% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets at 5:30 PM. On this day in 1773,…
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Daily Bread for 12.11.21: A Christmas Gift For, and About, Scheming Development Men
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will see snow this morning, of little accumulation, on an otherwise cloudy day with a high of 36. Sunrise is 7:16 AM and sunset 4:20 PM for 9h 04m 43s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 55.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1901, Morris Pratt…
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Texas (But Not Only Texas): Regulatory Capture
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Regulatory capture is a simple concept: it applies when regulatory agencies become dominated by the industries or interests they are by law required to regulate. These agencies begin to act to benefit particular incumbent firms or people in the industry they are supposed to be overseeing. The concept is also sometimes called agency capture or…
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Campaign Conflicts of Interest at a Self-Described Local News Source
by JOHN ADAMS • • 5 Comments
The Whitewater Unified School District’s board will see a contested February primary and a contested April general election. Regrettably, Whitewater has no professional newspaper, print or electronic, to cover that race. A post from today at the Whitewater Banner, entitled “Whitewater Unified School District Returns to In-Person Learning; Tom Ganser Photos Show the Excitement at…
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Consequences, Accountability, Repentance, Redemption
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David Frum, writing of Trump & Trumpism in The Conservative Cult of Victimhood, observes that There is no redemption without repentance. There is no repentance without accountability. There is no accountability without consequences. He rightly concludes that for the Trumpists, the absence of a moral order of accountability and repentance has meant that Even as Trump commits…
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Before Man & Movement, That Which Paved the Way
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Trump did not spring from the ground; he did not fall from the stars. Neither horticulture nor astrophysics played any role in his rise. Before Trump and Trumpism, there were towns and cities into which he and his movement found receptive audiences. Patients already ill are often susceptible of worse maladies. So it has been…