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Daily Bread for 11.16.21: Not Only in Washington, and Not Only Journalists

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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 50.  Sunrise is 6:49 AM and sunset 4:30 PM for 9h 40m 41s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing gibbous with 92.6% of its visible disk illuminated.  The Whitewater School Board’s Policy Review Committee meets at 9 AM and the Whitewater Common Council…

Assault Awareness & Prevention, Daily Bread, Education, Harassment, Indolence, Law, Litigation, Misconduct, University, UW System

Daily Bread for 10.15.21: From UW-Whitewater’s Administration, Too Many and Too Few Words

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Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 55.  Sunrise is 7:09 AM and sunset 6:11 PM for 11h 01m 35s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing gibbous with 74.4% of its visible disk illuminated.  On this day in 1956, FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the…

Coronavirus, Daily Bread, Law, Litigation, Public Health, School District

Daily Bread for 10.12.21: Parent of sick student sues after Waukesha School District ends many pandemic mitigation efforts

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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 69.  Sunrise is 7:06 AM and sunset 6:16 PM for 11h 10m 01s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing crescent with 42.1% of its visible disk illuminated.  Whitewater’s Finance Committee meets at 4:30 PM, and the city’s Public Works Committee meets at…

Assault Awareness & Prevention, City, Daily Bread, Law, Litigation, University, UW System

Daily Bread for 10.8.21: Ex-student Stephanie Vander Pas sues for failure of UW-Whitewater to protect her and others from sexual harassment by former chancellor’s husband

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Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will see scattered showers with a high of 72.  Sunrise is 7:01 AM and sunset 6:22 PM for 11h 21m 22s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing crescent with 5.6% of its visible disk illuminated.  On this day in 1871, fire destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin: Peshtigo, Wisconsin was devastated by a…

Books, Culture, Daily Bread, Education, Fact Checking, Law, Medicine, Populists, Reading, Reasoning, Right-wing Populism, School District, Science/Nature

Daily Bread for 9.7.21: Formation, General

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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will see morning thundershowers with a high of 78. Sunrise is 6:27 AM and sunset 7:17 PM, for 12h 50m 22s of daytime.  The moon is new with 0.3% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater  Common Council meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1776, according to American colonial reports, Ezra…

Daily Bread, Ethics, Free Markets, Law, Medicine, Misconduct, Police

Daily Bread for 8.21.21: Hundreds of Wisconsin Police Officers Back on the Job after Being Fired or Forced Out

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Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be variably cloudy with scattered thunderstorms and a high of 81. Sunrise is 6:08 AM and sunset 7:46 PM, for 13h 37m 26s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing gibbous with 98.9% of its visible disk illuminated.  On this day in 1911, the Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo…

Culture, Law, Liberty

Thin-Skinned in Whitefish Bay (and Places Nearer and Farther)

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There’s a story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about complaints against public speech in Whitefish Bay that’s illustrative of threats to free speech in small towns, including Whitewater. In Whitefish Bay, a group called Bay Bridge placed an anti-racism sign in a designated space at the public library. The sign drew the ire of some Whitefish…