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Daily Bread for 11.19.25: Robin Vos Was Never a Reliable Vote for Fundamental Principles

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Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of 44. Sunrise is 6:52 and sunset is 4:28 for 9 hours 36 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 0.5 percent of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Parks and Recreation Board meets at 5:30 PM. On this day in…

Daily Bread, Health, Hunger, Wisconsin

Daily Bread for 11.2.25: 700,000 Wisconsin Residents Rely on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance (FoodShare)

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Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 51. Sunrise is 6:30 and sunset is 4:45 for 10 hours 15 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 88 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1920, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station in America. …

Crackpots, Daily Bread, Health, Medicine, Tommy Thompson, Wisconsin

Daily Bread for 11.18.24: Wisconsin Octogenarian Desperate for Attention and Relevance

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Good morning.

Monday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 58. Sunrise is 6:51, and sunset is 4:28, for 9 hours, 37 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 89.5 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

Whitewater’s Police and Fire Commission meets at 6 PM, and the Library Board meets at 6:30 PM.

On this day in 1928, the Walt Disney Studio releases the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon.

Anything for an invitation:

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See Jessie Opoien, Tommy Thompson shows support for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leading Department of Health and Human Services, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 16, 2024.

Insurers say ‘bear’ that damaged cars was a person in a costume:

City, Daily Bread, Good Ideas, Health

Daily Bread for 8.19.24: A Public Health Vending Machine in Jefferson, WI

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Good morning.

Monday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 75. Sunrise is 6:07, and sunset is 7:49, for 13h 42m 01s of daytime. The moon is full with 100 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

The Whitewater School Board’s Policy Review Committee meets at 5:30 PM. The full board goes into closed session shortly after 6 PM, to return to open session at 7 PM. Whitewater’s Library Board meets at 6:30 PM.

On this day in 1944, the Liberation of Paris begins as the city’s residents rise against German occupation with the help of Allied troops.

I don’t believe that Whitewater has a public health vending machine, but it would be a good idea to install one. Jefferson, Wisconsin has done so, as WKOW reports:

Rangers Band and Tag Northern Royal Albatross Chicks Across the Colony:

The Northern Royal Albatross chicks from the Top Flat and Top Flat Track nests received their steel leg bands and Geo Location Sensor (GLS) tags on August 9. Watch rangers and staff from the New Zealand Department of Conservation (DOC) arrive to affix a stainless-steel band to the right leg of the Top Flat Track chick in this highlight.

Daily Bread, Economy, Health, Kulturkampf, Opioids, Wisconsin

Daily Bread for 8.7.24: Opioids Still a Top Wisconsin Concern

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Good morning.

Wednesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 78. Sunrise is 5:54, and sunset is 8:08, for 14h 12m 31s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 8.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM.

On this day in 1947, Thor Heyerdahl‘s balsa wood raft, the Kon-Tiki, smashes into the reef at Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101-day, 7,000 kilometres (4,300 mi) journey across the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to prove that pre-historic peoples could have traveled from South America

Christine Durrance, a professor in the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, writes Wisconsin’s opioid crisis complicates an already troubled health care system (‘54% of respondents in UW-Madison survey report health care as quite or an extremely big problem for Wisconsin; 69% feel this way about health care being a problem for the country’):

Health care is the third most concerning issue during this presidential election year, according to WisconSays survey data collected as part of this year’s Main Street Agenda, which the La Follette School of Public Affairs at UW-Madison is using to highlight what matters to Wisconsin throughout 2024.

In this statewide representative survey, 54% of respondents report health care as quite or an extremely big problem for Wisconsin; 69% feel this way about health care being a problem for the country. These sentiments are felt across the state with 58% of Democrats and 54% of Republicans viewing it as quite a problem or an extremely big problem for the state. There is also little divide between urban (54%) and rural (53%) residents.

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In 2022, more than 80,000 Americans died from opioids. It was the most deaths in a year due to the drug, and roughly four times the number of deaths attributed to opioids just a decade earlier. Nearly 1,500 Wisconsinites lost their lives to opioids in 2022, almost 20% more than just two years prior.  

The effects of the epidemic on our communities and health care system reach far beyond overdose mortality. One understudied aspect of the opioid crisis is its impact on women, infants, and children.

A hundred culture-war issues, pushed relentlessly, have only distracted from, but not alleviated, tens of thousands of yearly tragedies.

See also Society of Actuaries: Economic Cost of the Opioid Crisis.

Firefighters rescue deer on UW-Stevens Point campus:

Around 11 a.m. first responders were called to the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Pointr construction in Lot J.

Crews were able to restrain, secure, and free the deer from its predicament.