Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will see occasional rain with a high of 54. Sunrise is 7:25 AM and sunset 5:51 PM for 10h 26m 11s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 53.5% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets at 5:30 PM. On this day in 1726, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels…
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Daily Bread for 10.27.21: Rebecca Kleefisch’s Republican ‘Mercenaries’
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Daily Bread for 10.26.21: Wisconsin as a Testbed for Politically-Motivated Violence
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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 54. Sunrise is 7:22 AM and sunset 5:54 PM for 10h 31m 29s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 71.9% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Common Council meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1944, the Battle of Leyte Gulf ends…
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Daily Bread for 10.6.21: Trump Whines About Twitter Ban
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Daily Bread for 9.16.21: The Biased Leading the Biased
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Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 81. Sunrise is 6:36 AM and sunset 7:01 PM for 12h 24m 38s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 77.6% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater Fire Department, Inc. meets at 6 PM. This day in 1959, the first successful photocopier, the…
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Daily Bread for 9.12.21: Will the Curriculum Be in Their Hands?
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Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with occasional thundershowers and a high of 79. Sunrise is 6:32 AM and sunset 7:08 PM for 12h 36m 07s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 34.6% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1962, President Kennedy delivers his “We choose to go…
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Daily Bread for 8.27.21: Defining Populism
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Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with scattered thundershowers and a high of 91. Sunrise is 6:15 AM and sunset 7:36 PM, for 13h 21m 08s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 75.5% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1832, Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk, surrenders to…
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Daily Bread for 8.24.21: Ron Johnson’s Push for Ivermectin
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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will see afternoon thundershowers with a high of 91. Sunrise is 6:12 AM and sunset 7:41 PM, for 13h 29m 20s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 95.5% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Finance Committee meets at 4:30 PM. On this day in 1909, workers start pouring concrete…
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(Local) Fear of a Red Hat
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There are any number of fears that occasionally grip people, however unfounded those fears, of snakes, of spiders, of black cats, etc. (Snakes play an important ecological role, some cultures think spiders are good luck, and black cats are beautiful with notably soft coats.) And yet, and yet… no fear strikes deeper and holds tighter…