Good morning. It’s a mostly sunny day ahead, with a high temperature of eighty-six awaiting Whitewater. ScienceNews.org reports on a study about the insidious effects of one’s own stress on others, in a post entitled, Early stress is contagious in adulthood: A zebra finch’s tough childhood shortens both its life and its mate’s. Susan Milious reports that…

Good morning. It’s a mostly sunny day, with temperatures in the low eighties in store for Whitewater, if weather.com has anything to say about it. Wired offers a striking collection of rare animal photos in a story entitled, Wild Close-Ups of Rare Mammals From Huge Camera-Trap Study. Here’s just one, of over a dozen, from several…

Good morning. Scattered thunderstorms await Whitewater today, with a high temperature of eighty-two. Wisconsin’s history includes a first-in-the nation moment, from 1936: On this date the state of Wisconsin issued the first Unemployment Compensation Check in the United States for the amount of $15. The recipient was Neils N, Ruud who then sold it to Paul…

Good morning. It’s a sunny day, with high temperatures in the eighties ahead for Whitewater. There are three public meetings in the city today.  At 8 a.m. the Tech Park Board meets. In the afternoon, at 4:15 p.m., the Urban Forestry Commission meets. In the early evening, Common Council meets at 6:30 p.m. So is…

Good morning. Whitewater has two public meetings scheduled for today.  At 6 p.m., the Police Commission meets, with an agenda available online.  At 6:30 p.m., the library board meets, also with an agenda available online. In a brief video, NASA offers a guide to solar flares, including those that might noticeably affect communications on each.…

Good morning. Ahead for Whitewater today is a day in the low eighties, with a chance of rain this afternoon. This weekend, on Saturday and Sunday, I’ll post a series on newspapers, in our area, and farther away in the state. Today’s poll and comment forum will ask which papers you read, whether you like…

Good morning. It’s a sunny day in store for Whitewater, with a high temperature of eighty-two. Today’s a memorable day for Wisconsin sports, as the Wisconsin Historical Society notes that in on this day in 1919 the Green Bay Packers professional football team was founded during a meeting in the editorial rooms of Green Bay Press-Gazette. On…

Good morning. It’s a sunny and mild day ahead for the Whippet City, with high temperatures in the mid-seventies. So, how powerful was the March 11th Japanese Tsunami? So powerful that it broke off icebergs in Antarctica: New space-based images show the same tsunami that devastated Japan also caused a series of giant icebergs to break…

Good morning. It’s a partly sunny day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature in the lower eighties. In six senate districts across Wisconsin, our fellow citizens will have a chance to decide whether to retain their GOP state senators, or replace them with Democratic challengers.  (In two more districts, they’re be a recall election…

Good morning. It’s a rainy day with a high temperature of eighty-one ahead for Whitewater. In Whitewater at 6 p.m. tonight, the Planning Commission meets at the municipal building.  The meeting agenda is available online. On this day in 1974, President Nixon announced his resignation, effective noon the next day. A controversial company in Indonesia…

Good morning. Whitewater’s week ends with a partly sunny day, with high temps in the mid eighties. You’ve probably wondered (and who hasn’t?) what a tarantula’s heartbeat looks like.  Wired Science has the answer for which you’ve been patiently waiting, in a story entitled, “Tarantula MRI Reveals Strange Double Heartbeat.” Danielle Venton explains: Spider hearts…

Good morning. It’s a partly cloudy day today with a high of eighty-three for the Whippet City. The draft’s never been popular, and sometimes unpopular even in wartime. The Wisconsin Historical Society writes about how Wisconsinites reacted in 1862: 1862 – War Department Order Prompts Riot On this date the War Department issued General Order…

Good morning. It’s a partly cloudy day for Whitewater today, with only a small chance of rain, and a high temperature of eighty-six. There’s a meeting of Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission this afternoon, at 5 p.m., in the city manager’s conference room at the municipal building. The agenda is available online. Danielle Venton, writing at Wired…

It’s thunderstorms ahead for Whitewater today, with a high temperature in the lower nineties. There’s a Common Council meeting tonight, at 6:30 p.m. The meeting agenda is available online. The Wisconsin Historical Society marks this day in 1832 as the end of the Black Hawk War: On this date the defeat of Black Hawk and…