Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be partly sunny, with a high of fifty-seven. The Friday FW poll asked if we were Slaves to Our Devices? Responses were almost evenly split between yes and no, with 52.63% of respondents believing that we’re free, but 46.37% believing that our smartphones ands tablets have enslaved us. It’s…

Good morning. Sunshine returns to Whitewater, with a partly sunny day and a high of sixty-three. Sunrise today is 5:56 AM and sunset 7:58 PM. The moon is a waxing crescent with twenty percent of its visible disk illuminated. Training makes a difference, sometimes a critical one: It’s Machiavelli’s birthday: Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (Italian: [nikko?l?…

Good morning. Friday will be cloudy with an even chance of showers, and a high of fifty-four. On this day in 1933, someone publishes an account of something in Loch Ness that he describes as a monster: The term “monster” was reportedly applied for the first time to the creature on 2 May 1933 by…

Good morning. Thursday will be a day of showers and a high of forty-eight. The Landmarks Commission meets tonight at 6 PM. Also at 6 PM, there’s a scheduled meeting of the Fire & Rescue Task Force. Today is the anniversary of the official opening (from 1931) of the Empire State Building: ….The construction was…

Good morning. Mid-week in Whitewater will be cloudy, with a one-third chance of daytime showers, and a high of fifty. On this day in 1803, negotiations conclude successfully to add vast territory to the United States: On April 30, 1803, representatives of the United States and Napoleonic France conclude negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, a massive land sale…

Good morning. We’ll have a rainy day again today, with thunderstorms, and a high of sixty-two. Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1862, U.S. Marines take the Confederate flag from the New Orleans city hall, after a successful naval campaign against that city: From April 18 to April 28, Farragut…

Good morning. We’ve a rainy day ahead, with a high of forty-seven. On this day in 1947, Thor Heyerdahl begins an ocean voyage in the Kon-Tiki expedition: Heyerdahl believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times. Although most anthropologists as of 2010 had come to the conclusion they did not,[1][2][3]…

Good morning. We’ve a forty-percent chance of scattered showers today (with a hundred-percent chance tonight). Otherwise, Sunday will be cloudy with a high of fifty-two. What was spring break like in the 1950s? Here’s how Chevrolet depicted it: On this day in 1963, Dave Brubeck plays Beloit: 1963 – Dave Brubeck Performs at Beloit College…

Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of fifty-six. Sunrise is 5:56 AM and sunset 7:50 PM. The moon is a waning crescent with only eight-percent of its visible disk illuminated. In yesterday’s FW poll, Friday Poll: Brewers – Good or Lucky?, 50% of respondents weren’t sure, 29.17% said good, and…

Good morning. Friday will become increasingly sunny, with a high of sixty-four. On this day in 1990, America places the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit: The crew of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery places the Hubble Space Telescope, a long-term space-based observatory, into a low orbit around Earth. The space telescope, conceived in the 1940s,…

Good morning. Whitewater will have an even chance of afternoon showers today, with a high of fifty-eight. The Tech Park Board meets today at 8 AM. On this day in 1800, the Library of Congress is born: …legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase “such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress,” thus…

Good morning. Wednesday in the Whippet City will be increasingly cloudy with a high of fifty-five. Whitewater’s public meetings today show the gap between existing independent businesses and government-backed (and wasteful) efforts to manipulate the local economy to the advantage of insiders’ preferred projects. Downtown Whitewater’s Board meets at 8 AM, and later today at…

Good morning. Earth Day in Whitewater will be sunny, with a high of fifty-five, and northwest winds at ten to 15 mph. The Urban Forestry Commission meets today at 4:30 PM. For Earth Day, Google’s published a doodle with links to information about several animals (Rufous hummingbird, veiled chameleon, moon jellyfish, dung beetle, puffer fish,…

Good morning. Monday brings a probability of afternoon showers or thundershowers and a high of seventy-five. SpaceX, a private aerospace firm, had a successful launch of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule on Friday. Two days’ time later, on Easter, the capsule successful arrived at the International Space Station with tons (literally) of supplies…