It’s bracing to enter Whitewater from Highway 12: the initial sights are non-descript, with little to distinguish Whitewater from a smaller town. We are a city of fourteen thousand, with a university campus, but our problems become apparent when entering the city from the west. Here’s what a traveler would find, as conditions are now:…
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City, Development, Economy, Free Markets
Community Prosperity: Introduction
by JOHN ADAMS •
We hear much about community development in Whitewater, now more than ever. We depend on our fellow residents; their success or failure affects us greatly. It was Aristotle who famously remarked that one who freely lives outside a city is either a beast or a god. Americans are not so convinced of town, let alone…
City, Development, Economy, Free Markets
Whitewater’s Economy
by JOHN ADAMS •
I’ll write over the next few posts about the state of the economy in Whitewater. I mentioned economic problems as one of the challenges facing Whitewater when I wrote that Our municipal government is narrow-minded, with a poor grasp of economics, and clings to burdensome regulations that make Whitewater unattractive to businesses. We gain housing,…
City, Free Markets
Open Letter: “White, Non-Minority?”
by JOHN ADAMS •
UPDATE, 6-4-07 I received a reply from the Community Development Authority to my open letter, and the reply related that the CDA website is in transition. There will always be some positive achievements from the past that should be continued, but other perspectives and legacies should be relegated only to distant memory. Rome was not…
City, Free Markets
“White, Non-Minority?”
by JOHN ADAMS •
I believe strongly in growth for Whitewater, and in the the importance of attracting new businesses to our city. The Whitewater Community Development Authority is part of that effort. Here is how the Community Development authority describes itself, from its website: The Whitewater CDA is a Housing and Community Development Authority formed in 1983 by…