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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…

Cats, Good Ideas

Friday Catblogging: Paul the Cat Guy

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Meghan Dunn writes Meet Instagram’s Paul the Cat Guy: Astoria, New York (CNN) — Paul Santell spends at least 30 hours each week feeding and trapping stray cats throughout New York City’s boroughs. It’s a mission that sort of fell in his lap five years ago but has now earned him the moniker “Paul the…

America, Asylum, City, Good Ideas, Immigration, Liberty

Lights for Liberty

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LIGHTS for LIBERTY is a national movement to unite Americans from across this continent on the evening of July 12th, 2019. (In Whitewater residents will be gathering in support of migrants’ rights at the Cravath Lakefront at 8:30 PM.) We are a coalition of people, many of whom are mothers, dedicated to human rights, and…

Education, Good Ideas, Law, Newspapers, Open Government, Public Records 2, School District

The Best Record is a Recording

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A video recording of the 5.28.19 Whitewater Unified School Board meeting is now online. It is, truly, a genuine good without merely particular ends.  (Every regular and special board session should be online, by the board’s own policies. See Public Records Request, 5.20.19.) A recording of the full session confirms yet again that the best…

Cats, Faraway Places, Good Ideas

The Lanai Cat Sanctuary

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Hawaii may seem a paradise, but even within that wonderland there’s a cat paradise: Although he regularly greets guests at the Lanai Cat Sanctuary, Keoni Vaughn will never forget one passionate visitor who showed up a couple of years ago. “He came to the cat sanctuary … from Japan to spend the day with us…

Charity, Good Ideas, Holiday

Charitable Gifts for Mother’s Day

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Mother’s Day is May 12th this year, and families in Whitewater and far beyond will naturally and rightly purchase gifts for the mothers in the lives.  For those who are able, there’s an additional opportunity to purchase charitable gifts for mothers and children under the care of the International Rescue Committee. The IRC was founded…

Babbittry, Beautiful Whitewater, CDA, Culture, Demographics, Diversity, Economics, Economy, Good Ideas, Lifestyle, Local Government, WEDC

‘Migration Key To Wisconsin’s Workforce’

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For many years – and despite nearly a decade of corporate welfare and crony capitalism from the WEDC and local versions of it – Wisconsin has seen a decline in younger workers and families. Shamane Mills writes Report: Migration Key To Wisconsin’s Workforce (“State Has Seen Large Drop in Net Migration Of Families With Children…

Charity, City, Culture, Economy, Good Ideas, Local Government, Poverty

Political and Apolitical Means of Local Accomplishment

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One test of an institution’s vitality is how eager people are to become members, and how interested a community is to learn who’s become a member. Strong institutions or organizations attract attention. When the institution is a city or county government, one looks to see who’s eager to run for office, and how many people…