Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 43. Sunrise is 6:56 AM and sunset 5:21 PM for 10h 25m 34s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 70.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1812, Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry is accused of “gerrymandering” for the first…
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Corporate Welfare, Daily Bread, Foxconn, Government Spending, Local Government
Daily Bread for 1.5.23: Will Mount Pleasant’s Local Government See Accountability for Foxconn?
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 34. Sunrise is 7:25 AM and sunset 4:35 PM for 9h 10m 30s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 98.2% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM. On this day in 1914, the Ford Motor Company announces…
Business, Daily Bread, Development, Foxconn, Hubris, Speaker Vos, State Government, WEDC, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 12.29.22: Pyromanic Criticizes Fire-Safety Efforts
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of 52. Sunrise is 7:25 AM and sunset 4:29 PM for 9h 04m 23s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 44.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1845, the United States annexes the Republic of Texas. Foxconn was, and…
Bad Ideas, Corporate Welfare, Daily Bread, Foxconn, Government Spending, WEDC, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 9.16.22: At Foxconn, Workers Are Bored and Go Home Early
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with high of 79. Sunrise is 6:36 AM and sunset 7:02 PM for 12h 25m 20s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 61.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1959, the first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a…
Boosterism, CDA, Corporate Welfare, Daily Bread, Economy, Foxconn, Innovation Center/Tech Park, Local Government, Marketing, Misplaced Priorities, Poverty, Recession
Daily Bread for 9.5.22: The Grandiose
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Labor Day in Whitewater will be party sunny with high of 74. Sunrise is 6:24 AM and sunset 7:21 PM for 12h 56m 42s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 69.5% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1942, the Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major…
Daily Bread, Foxconn, Government Spending, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 7.28.22: $167,000,000 for Foxconn Consultants
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 79. Sunrise is 5:43 AM and sunset 8:19 PM for 14h 36m 21s of daytime. The moon is new with 0.1% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets at 5:30 PM, and the Whitewater Common Council at 6:30 PM. On…
Bad Ideas, Business, Corporate Welfare, Daily Bread, Foxconn, Government Spending, Kleefisch, Michels, No Honor Among Thieves, Politics, Scott Walker, Trump
Daily Bread for 7.20.22: Michels Keeps His Money, Discards His Views
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 86. Sunrise is 5:35 AM and sunset 8:27 PM for 14h 51m 54s of daytime. The moon is in its third quarter with 50.1% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1969, Apollo 11‘s crew successfully makes the first manned landing on…
Business, Daily Bread, Economy, Foxconn, Innovation Center/Tech Park, Technology
Daily Bread for 3.23.22: For Foxconn, It’s Someday, Perhaps, Kinda, Sorta…
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will see scattered showers with a high of 49. Sunrise is 6:50 AM and sunset 7:11 PM for 12h 20m 27s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 69.5% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee meets at 5:30 PM. On this day in 1909,…
Daily Bread, Economy, Foxconn, Local Government
Daily Bread for 3.1.22: In Mount Pleasant, Village Representatives Vote to Extend Their Own Terms
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 43. Sunrise is 6:28 AM and sunset 5:45 PM for 11h 16m 24s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 1.9% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Alcohol Licensing Committee meets at 6:15 PM, and the Whitewater Common Council meets at 6:30 PM. On…
Bad Ideas, Business, Daily Bread, Development, Foxconn, Government Spending, Trump
Daily Bread for 2.6.22: Food Dye, the Eighth Wonder of the World!
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be intermittently cloudy with a high of 37. Sunrise is 7:02 AM and sunset 5:15 PM for 10h 13m 11s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 30.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1967, nationally-known activist Stokely Carmichael speaks at UW-Whitewater as part of…
Daily Bread, Foxconn, Government Spending
Daily Bread for 12.22.21: Foxconn ‘Manager’ Feasts on Public Tab
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Bad Ideas, Books, Confidence Schemes, Conflicts of Interest, Corporate Welfare, Daily Bread, Development, Foxconn, Mendacity, Scott Walker, State Capitalism, Trump, WEDC
Daily Bread for 12.11.21: A Christmas Gift For, and About, Scheming Development Men
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will see snow this morning, of little accumulation, on an otherwise cloudy day with a high of 36. Sunrise is 7:16 AM and sunset 4:20 PM for 9h 04m 43s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 55.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1901, Morris Pratt…
Business, Daily Bread, Development, Foxconn
Daily Bread for 10.2.21: Foxconn Slips Away in the Night
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 79. Sunrise is 6:54 AM and sunset 6:33 PM for 11h 38m 32s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 18.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 2018, the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is murdered in the Saudi…
Bad Ideas, Corporate Welfare, Foxconn, Government Spending, Scott Walker, WEDC, Wisconsin
Foxconn: Perhaps – Perhaps – a Few Lessons Learned
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Scott Cohn of CNBC reports After Wisconsin’s Foxconn debacle, states and companies rethink giant subsidies. Rethinking is a hopeful prospect, but there has been significant lasting damage, as Cohn reports: Economic development officials in Wisconsin say they are more than ready to move on to other matters now that they have renegotiated a massive subsidy deal…