Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be snowy with a high of 35. Sunrise is 6:47 AM and sunset 4:31 PM for 9h 43m 18s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 59% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Common Council meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1864, Union General William Tecumseh…
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Daily Bread for 8.29.22: Trumpism’s Threats of Force and Ruin
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
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 5.11.22: The Neediness of Conservative Populists
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 84. Sunrise is 5:35 AM and sunset 8:07 PM for 14h 32m 00s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 74% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1997 Deep Blue, a chess-playing supercomputer, defeats Garry Kasparov in the last…
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Daily Bread for 5.8.22: Manufacturing Panic
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
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 4.18.22: The Opportunistic Use of Open-Government Principles
by JOHN ADAMS • • 3 Comments
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Daily Bread for 4.14.22: The Environment That Populism Exploits
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be windy with a high of 44. Sunrise is 6:13 AM and sunset 7:36 PM for 13h 23m 33s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 93.5% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Board of Zoning Appeals meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1912, the British passenger…
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Daily Bread for 4.13.22: The Environment That Populism Creates
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will see scattered thundershowers with a high of 69. Sunrise is 6:14 AM and sunset 7:35 PM for 13h 20m 46s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 87.2% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1970, an oxygen tank aboard the Apollo 13 Service Module explodes, putting…
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Daily Bread for 9.16.21: The Biased Leading the Biased
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 81. Sunrise is 6:36 AM and sunset 7:01 PM for 12h 24m 38s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 77.6% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater Fire Department, Inc. meets at 6 PM. This day in 1959, the first successful photocopier, the…
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Daily Bread for 9.8.21: Afghan Refugees More Sensible than Many Native-Born Americans
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 75. Sunrise is 6:28 AM and sunset 7:15 PM, for 12h 47m 32s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 2.6% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1966, the landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired…
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Daily Bread for 9.7.21: Formation, General
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
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 Lee…
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Daily Bread for 8.27.21: Defining Populism
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with scattered thundershowers and a high of 91. Sunrise is 6:15 AM and sunset 7:36 PM, for 13h 21m 08s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 75.5% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1832, Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk, surrenders to…
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Daily Bread for 8.15.21: The ‘Personal Responsibility’ Crowd Wants a Handout
by JOHN ADAMS • • 3 Comments
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 81. Sunrise is 6:02 AM and sunset 7:55 PM, for 13h 53m 13s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 48.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1944, Allied forces land in southern France in Operation Dragoon. Molly Beck reports…
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Jane Jacobs with Useful Advice on Responsibility (for Whitewater, Richmond Township, Delavan, Etc.)
by JOHN ADAMS • • 3 Comments
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…