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America, Daily Bread, Demographics, Economy

Daily Bread for 8.11.22: National Demographic Estimates Show Youth Population Decline

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Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 79. Sunrise is 5:57 AM and sunset 8:01 PM for 14h 03m 58s of daytime.  The moon is full with 99.7% of its visible disk illuminated.  Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets at 4:30 PM.  On this day in 1919, the Packers are founded: “On…

Budget, City, Daily Bread, Demographics, Economy, Poverty, School District

Daily Bread for 7.27.22: Brief Implications of Whitewater’s (Socio-Economic) Condition

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Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 82. Sunrise is 5:42 AM and sunset 8:20 PM for 14h 38m 26s of daytime.  The moon is a waning crescent with 1.5% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1974, in the Watergate scandal, the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27…

Budget, City, Daily Bread, Demographics, Economy, Poverty, School District

Daily Bread for 7.26.22: Slides on Whitewater’s (Socio-Economic) Condition

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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 80. Sunrise is 5:41 AM and sunset 8:21 PM for 14h 40m 28s of daytime.  The moon is a waning crescent with 4.8% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Finance Committee meets at 4:30 PM. On this day in 1948, President Truman signs Executive…

City, Culture, Demographics, Economy, Education, Local Government, Politics, School District

Local 2021 Races in the Whitewater Area

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Update: this post about local politics, with an optimistic final sentence, was published before the morning and afternoon events in Washington. It has always been true – and always will be true – that what harms the country harms the city; what stains the nation stains the city. Every moment of opposition to Trump and…

Budget, City, Demographics, Government Spending, University, UW System, Wisconsin

UW-Whitewater’s Budgetary Challenges Require a Studied Approach

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Whitewater is a college town. If a college town, then a college: the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. I’ve written about the university now and again. A simple summary of my views would be that Whitewater benefits from having a university, but that the school’s leaders (notably Telfer and Kopper) have failed both individuals and the community.…

City, Demographics, Television

Broadband Gaps

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There’s a story over at Wisconsin Watch that reports on the broadband gap in rural Wisconsin communities. Peter Cameron reports Broadband gap leaves rural Wisconsin behind during coronavirus crisis (‘Wisconsin’s dearth of high-speed internet in rural areas makes virtual schooling, remote health care and working from home even more difficult’): Already, Wisconsin lags behind the…

Babbittry, CDA, City, Demographics, Development, Diversity, Economy, Local Government, That Which Paved the Way

Rural Population Drain

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Thirteen years ago, local notables in small-town Whitewater, Wisconsin insisted that Whitewater was the very center of the universe.  When that claim didn’t entice newcomers, these same men began to claim the very opposite, that Whitewater wasn’t doing better because no one knew where the city was. (Both of these claims are silly: billions of…