Embed from Getty Images Cathy Free reports A Virginia woman was feeling sad. Her doctor prescribed her a cat (‘Her doctor, Earl D. King, said he wrote it down ‘because people sometimes don’t follow your instructions’): Robin Sipe’s eyes filled with tears as soon as her doctor entered the examining room. “My cat had recently…
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Daily Bread, Good Ideas, Toys, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 9.2.23: Wisconsin Woman Makes Dolls for Underrepresented Kids
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Daily Bread, Good Ideas, Science/Nature, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 9.1.23: Wisconsin Farm Launches Tree Species Made to Clean Pollution
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City, Culture, Daily Bread, Good Ideas
Daily Bread for 8.31.23: A Few Weird Tricks to Boost Local Organizations (That Are Neither Weird Nor Tricks)
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Daily Bread for 8.7.23: Professional Journalism Returns to Whitewater
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Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 79. Sunrise is 5:53 AM and sunset 8:07 PM for 14h 14m 21s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 58.8% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Equal Opportunities Commission meets at 5 PM. On this day in 1947, Thor…
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Daily Bread for 7.20.23: An Example of Private Educational Initiative
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Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 80. Sunrise is 5:35 AM and sunset 8:27 PM for 14h 52m 19s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 7.3% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets at 5:30 PM. On this day in 1972, an…
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Daily Bread for 7.7.23: Prioritization in a Small Town
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Daily Bread, Good Ideas, Health, Opioids, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 7.5.23: Bad River Tribe Provides Free Opioid Reversal Drugs Through Mail
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Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy, with scattered afternoon thundershowers, and a high of 88. Sunrise is 5:23 AM and sunset 8:36 PM for 15h 13m 06s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 94.2% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1832, General Atkinson and his troops…
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Daily Bread for 4.15.23: BaristaCats Café
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Friday Catblogging: Hats for Cats
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Friday Catblogging: A Cat Elevator
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The Power and Value of Open Enrollment
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It’s beneficial in-and-of-itself that people should read, reflect, and commit themselves to ‘lifelong learning.’ Some years ago, the Whitewater Unified School District had a fine goal of inspiring students to become “engaged lifelong learners.” Yet in smaller communities, without the money or numbers for plentiful schooling alternatives, government taxes for a school system, establishes rules…