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Daily Bread for 10.9.21: Michael Gableman Brilliantly Reprises a 1940 Film Role

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Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 70.  Sunrise is 7:02 AM and sunset 6:21 PM for 11h 18m 32s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing crescent with 12.8% of its visible disk illuminated.  On this day in 1936, Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit…

Courts, Daily Bread, Elections, Fair Maps, Gerrymandering, Law

Daily Bread for 9.23.21: But Whose New Maps for Wisconsin?

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Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of 68.  Sunrise is 6:44 AM and sunset 6:49 PM for 12h 04m 28s of daytime.  The moon is a waning gibbous with 93.8% of its visible disk illuminated.  Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets at 5:30 PM.  On this day in 1889, Nintendo Koppai…

Conservative Populism, Conspiracy Theories, Daily Bread, Elections, Liberal Democracy, Populists

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…

Elections, Law, Legislation, Republicans, Voting Rights, Wisconsin, WISGOP

WISGOP Moves to Restrict Voting

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Across America, Republicans are doing all they can to restrict voting access after Trump’s decisive loss in the presidential election. (Ceaseless lies won’t make up a 7-million-vote margin.) The WISGOP is no exception to this trend. Molly Beck and Patrick Marley report Republican lawmakers seek to overhaul voting in Wisconsin, including new rules for absentee…

Education, Elections, School District, State Government

The Spring Primary 2021

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Yesterday’s Wisconsin Spring Primary (mid-February, windchill of about two degrees) saw local and statewide education contests. There was nothing unexpected about the results: in Whitewater more than two candidates have a good chance at one of the two available board seats, and statewide Underly and Kerr have significant backing. For Whitewater’s school board, five candidates…

Conflicts of Interest, Elections, Local Government, Newspapers, Politics, Press, Press Release, School District

Campaign Conflicts of Interest at a Self-Described Local News Source

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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…

City, Elections, Failure, Local Government, Presidential race 2020, Scott Fitzgerald, Sen. Ron Johnson, Trump, Trumpism, Unfit

Johnson & Fitzgerald: Betrayers of Wisconsin

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The Journal Sentinel’s editorial board correctly contends that Ron Johnson, Scott Fitzgerald and Tom Tiffany should resign or be expelled for siding with Trump against our republic: It was one of Scott Fitzgerald’s first votes in Congress — and he voted to give aid and comfort to an insurrection. This is what putting Donald Trump…