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Daily Bread for 12.2.21: Kasparov on How Foreign Dissidents Can Help Renew U.S. Democracy

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Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 49.  Sunrise is 7:07 AM and sunset 4:21 PM for 9h 13m 28s of daytime.  The moon is a waning crescent with 4.8% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater Fire Department, Inc. holds a business meeting at 5:30 PM and the Landmarks Commission meets…

Constitution, Daily Bread, Law, Liberal Democracy, Local Government, Politics

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…

City, Conservative Populism, Daily Bread, Local Government, Politics, School District

Daily Bread for 10.27.21: Rebecca Kleefisch’s Republican ‘Mercenaries’

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Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 58.  Sunrise is 7:24 AM and sunset 5:53 PM for 10h 28m 49s of daytime.  The moon is a waning gibbous with 63% of its visible disk illuminated. The Technology Park Board meets at 8 AM.  On this day in 1961, NASA tests…

Alt-Right, Conservative Populism, Daily Bread, Disinformation, Kenosha, Politics, Violence, Wisconsin

Daily Bread for 10.26.21: Wisconsin as a Testbed for Politically-Motivated Violence

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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 54.  Sunrise is 7:22 AM and sunset 5:54 PM for 10h 31m 29s of daytime.  The moon is a waning gibbous with 71.9% of its visible disk illuminated.  Whitewater’s Common Council meets at 6:30 PM.  On this day in 1944, the Battle of Leyte Gulf ends…

City, Culture, Daily Bread, Local Government, Politics, School District

Daily Bread for 10.25.21: Late in the Day Even for Sociability

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Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 52.  Sunrise is 7:21 AM and sunset 5:55 PM for 10h 34m 08s of daytime.  The moon is a waning gibbous with 79.9% of its visible disk illuminated.  Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets at 4:30 PM, the Community Development Authority Seed Capital Committee meets…

City, Constitution, Daily Bread, Education, Ethics, History, Insurrection, Politics, Right-wing Populism, School District, Trumpism

Daily Bread for 10.4.21: The Basis of a Civics Syllabus for Whitewater’s Schools

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Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will see scattered showers with a high of 68.  Sunrise is 6:56 AM and sunset 6:29 PM for 11h 32m 49s of daytime.  The moon is a waning crescent with 5.1% of its visible disk illuminated.  On this day in 1957, Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the…

Politics, Public Health, Rhetoric, Trumpism, UW System, Vaccines, WISGOP

Steve Nass: Troll-King in Autumn

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For many years, Steve Nass, as a state representative (now a state senator) was a notable farthest-to-the-right Wisconsin politician. The bête noire of liberals and universities, he was the state’s unmatched troll, criticizing the center-left time and again. Nass was a right-wing populist long before Trump.  He was the great troll-king of Wisconsin, firing florid press releases…

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