Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 83. Sunrise is 5:29 and sunset is 8:31, for 15 hours, 2 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 85.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Plan & Architectural Review Commission meets at 6 PM. On this day in…
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Daily Bread for 7.4.25: Happy Independence Day
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will see scattered morning showers giving way to sunnier afternoon skies and a high of 89. Sunrise is 5:22 and sunset is 8:36, for 15 hours, 14 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 66.6 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1776, the Second…
America, Daily Bread, Liberty, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 6.14.25: No Kings
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 78. Sunrise is 5:15 and sunset is 8:34, for 15 hours, 19 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 89.7 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1777, the Second Continental Congress passes the Flag Act of 1777 adopting the Stars and…
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Daily Bread for 7.5.24: Wisconsin Supreme Court Restores Absentee Ballot Boxes
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning.

Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a chance of scattered afternoon showers and a high of 76. Sunrise is 5:23 and sunset 8:35 for 15h 12m 21s of daytime. The moon is new with 0.2 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1687, Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
On this day in 1832, General Atkinson and his troops entered the area known by the Native Americans as “trembling land” in their pursuit of Black Hawk:
The area was some 10 square miles and contained a large bog. Although the land appeared safe, it would undulate or tremble for yards when pressure was applied. Many of the militiamen were on horses, which plunged to their bellies in the swamp. The “trembling lands” forced Atkinson to retrace his steps back toward the Rock River, in the process losing days in his pursuit of Black Hawk.”On this day in 1832, General Atkinson and his troops entered the area known by the Native Americans as “trembling lands” in their pursuit of Black Hawk. The area was some 10 square miles and contained a large bog. Although the land appeared safe, it would undulate or tremble for yards when pressure was applied. Many of the militiamen were on horses, which plunged to their bellies in the swamp. The “trembling lands” forced Atkinson to retrace his steps back toward the Rock River, in the process losing days in his pursuit of Black Hawk.
Whitewater’s Independence Holiday celebration continues today at the Cravath Lakefront:
Christman Family Amusements Wrist Band Session: 5 PM to 9 PM
Civic Organization Food Vendors: 4 PM to 11 PM
Live Music at Frawley Ampitheater:
Cactus Brothers 5 to 7 PM sponsored by TDS
Titan Fun Key (Whitewater band playing ‘70s rock, funk, and blues) 8 PM to 10:30 PM
Family Day Powered by Generac: Free petting zoo, pony rides, camel rides 4 to 8 PM
This morning, the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued rulings restoring absentee ballot boxes (Priorities USA v. Wisconsin Elections Commission), holding unconstitutional specific statutes that placed the power of the executive branch to carry out the law in a committee of the legislature (Tony Evers v. Howard Marklein), and reversing a lower-court decision that allowed recommitment and involuntary medication without actual hearing notice to the subject individual (Waukesha County v. M.A.C.).
All three decisions appear below.
Italy’s Mount Etna erupting at night:
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Daily Bread for 9.25.22: Putin Rigs the Vote
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be windy with afternoon thundershowers and a high of 65. Sunrise is 6:46 AM and sunset 6:45 PM for 11h 59m 24s of daytime. The moon is new with 0.1% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1237, England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing…
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Daily Bread for 8.29.22: Trumpism’s Threats of Force and Ruin
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be cloudy with high of 84. Sunrise is 6:17 AM and sunset 7:33 PM for 13h 16m 18s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 5.4% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets at 4:30 PM. On this day in 1997, Netflix is launches as…
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Daily Bread for 5.8.22: Manufacturing Panic
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Mother’s Day in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 64. Sunrise is 5:38 AM and sunset 8:03 PM for 14h 25m 17s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 45.2% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1869, the First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United…
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Daily Bread for 2.3.22: Responding to Disinformation
by JOHN ADAMS •
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Daily Bread for 9.6.21: Formation, Moral
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Labor Day in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 78. Sunrise is 6:26 AM and sunset 7:19 PM, for 12h 53m 11s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 0.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 2008, the federal government takes control of the two largest mortgage financing…
City, Culture, Education, Liberty, Populists, Right-wing Populism, School District
Jane Jacobs with Useful Advice on Responsibility (for Whitewater, Richmond Township, Delavan, Etc.)
by JOHN ADAMS •
In Jane Jacobs’s Death and Life of Great American Cities (describing large cities, not small towns), she writes of business owners’ sense of responsibility for the sidewalks near their shops: First, there must be a clear demarcation between what is public space and what is private space. Public and private spaces cannot ooze into each other…
Culture, Law, Liberty
Thin-Skinned in Whitefish Bay (and Places Nearer and Farther)
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
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Ron Elving’s Laughable Description of Libertarianism
by JOHN ADAMS •
Perhaps readers will excuse me for taking a year to respond to Ron Elving’s description of libertarianism in $2 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Bill Presents A Reckoning For Libertarians (3.28.20). It wasn’t worthy of a prompt reply, but it’s also unworthy of taking space yet longer in my task queue. Elving writes: Let us all have a…
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The Party Demands Unity
by JOHN ADAMS •
One reads that WISGOP Bill Would Make It Illegal For Sports Venues to Skip National Anthem: It would be illegal for some sports venues to skip the national anthem before games under a new bill proposed by a Republican legislator. Stevens Point Republican Sen. Patrick Testin’s Star Spangled Banner Act, proposed Wednesday, would require the anthem…
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2020: ‘But Not Just That’
by JOHN ADAMS •
Tim Miller – who is always worth reading, writes of 2020 as The Worst. But Not Just That. These paragraphs resonate: Most importantly, 2020 will always be the year that we joined together and toppled the greatest threat that our fragile union has faced in many decades. Turning out more people to vote against the president-strongman…