Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 92. Sunrise is 5:16 AM and sunset 8:36 PM for 15h 20m 24s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 56.9% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets at 4:30 PM and the Library Board at 6:30 PM. On…
Environment
City, Daily Bread, Environment, Water, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 1.13.22: Lake Superior’s Forever Chemicals
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Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 33. Sunrise is 7:23 AM and sunset 4:44 PM for 9h 21m 45s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 83.1% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1922, the call letters of experimental station 9XM in Madison were replaced by…
Animals, Beautiful Whitewater, City, Daily Bread, Environment, Local Government, Nature, Plants, Press
Daily Bread for 10.24.21: The Otters of Singapore Offer a Lesson for Whitewater, Wisconsin
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Bad Ideas, City, Daily Bread, Environment, Nature, Open Government, Press, Water
Daily Bread for 10.22.21: Reporting About Artificial Herbicides in Whitewater, Wisconsin
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Adventure, Documentary, Environment, Film, Nature, Weather
Film: Glacier Exit
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Animation, Environment
Sunday Animation: Tomorrow’s On Fire
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Created in direct response to the Australian Bushfire crisis, Darcy Prendergast’s new film #TomorrowsOnFire is a rallying cry for hope, in a country increasingly scarce of it. Please help support injured Australian wildlife, by making a donation to: wildlifevictoria.org.au/coopersanimalrefuge.com.au/donate
Bad Ideas, Environment, Foxconn, Health, Scott Walker, Trump
‘Trump Appointees Shunted Scientists on Pollution at Foxconn Site’
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Bad Ideas, Business, CDA, City, Corporate Welfare, Development, Economics, Economy, Environment, Foxconn, Government Spending, Local Government, Speaker Vos, State Capitalism, State Government, That Which Paved the Way, WEDC, Wisconsin
Foxconn: The Closer One Gets, The Worse It Is
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
There is, about Foxconn in Wisconsin, a fair amount of ignorant insistence that there will be supply chain opportunities, etc. Public employees talking about the Foxconn project’s supposed benefit is the practical equivalent letting them recite limericks or play sheepshead: it’s not productive. For those near Foxconn, however, that project is more than wasteful talk:…
Business, Development, Economy, Employment, Environment, Foxconn, Government Spending, State Capitalism, That Which Paved the Way, Water, WEDC, Wisconsin
10 Key Articles About Foxconn
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➤ Foxconned (“How much is Wisconsin paying for a Taiwanese manufacturer’s jobs?”): Already, it is hazy just how much of a boost to the local economy Foxconn is expected to make. The company said it planned to hire 3,000 workers over four years, whereas the state said the new facility would create 13,000 jobs with an average…
Development, Environment, Local Government, WGTB, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN
Waste Hauling Into Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS • • 7 Comments
Post 75 in a series. When Green Turns Brown is an examination of a small town’s digester-energy project, in which Whitewater, Wisconsin would import other cities’ waste, claiming that the result would be both profitable and green. A few years (and seventy-five posts) ago, I began consideration of a local proposal to haul waste into Whitewater.…
Animals, Conservation, Environment, Nature
Film: The Rhino Guardians
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The Rhino Guardians from Dan Sadgrove on Vimeo. Dan Sadgrove describes his recent film on an anti-poaching group: In 2016 I travelled to South Africa to visit The Black Mambas – the worlds first all female anti-poaching unit operating in the Balule Game Reserve in South Africa. Coming from disadvantaged communities and breaking strong patriarchal…
Cato, Environment, Federal Government, Trump
The Next Secretary of the Interior?
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Embed from Getty Images While there is much talk about high-profile cabinet posts like State, Defense, and Justice, there are lower-profile posts that will still attract both interested parties and occasional controversies. The Department of the Interior is among them. Prospects for that cabinet secretary include oil baron Forrest Lucas (a big contributor to Mike…
City, Environment, Local Government, Negligence, Water
Pavement Project Causes Lake Contamination in Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS • • 8 Comments
WKOW 27: Madison, WI Breaking News, Weather and Sports WKOW-TV of Madison reports on what everyone in Whitewater can see: that oil from a paving project has spread from that project. See, Pavement project causes lake contamination in Whitewater @ WKOW-TV. Three key points: 1. Unobservant: city officials took two days to discover this. WKOW’s…
Environment
Celebrating National Parks
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The National Park Service turns 100 years old today. Google’s published a doodle, shown in the video below, to celebrate – One would prefer, beyond government, that there should be private initiatives and privately-encouraged study of national history and ecology. These are not, after all, matters of emotion, but of science and reason (however breathtaking…