Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 37. Sunrise is 7:16 AM and sunset 4:58 PM for 9h 41m 58s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 10.4% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6:30 PM and the Police & Fire Commission meets at 7 PM.…
Press
Daily Bread, Press, Speaker Vos, Trump, Trumpism
Daily Bread for 12.30.22: Vos Was for Trump for Years Before He Was Against Him
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
City, Daily Bread, Elections, Local Government, Press
Daily Bread for 11.7.22: Whitewater’s Ballot
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 49. Sunrise is 6:37 AM and sunset 4:30 PM for 10h 01m 29s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 99.2% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Equal Opportunities Commission meets at 5 PM. On this day in 1994, WXYC, the student…
Daily Bread, Herrenvolk, Never Trump, Politics, Press, Trumpism
Daily Bread for 10.15.22: For the Press, a Duty of Conduct as Though a Free Society Still Matters
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Beautiful Whitewater, City, Culture, Daily Bread, Diversity, Immigration, Local Government, Press, School District
Daily Bread for 9.8.22: On Immigrants and Community Relations
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny with high of 82. Sunrise is 6:28 AM and sunset 7:16 PM for 12h 48m 12s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 94.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1966, the landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired…
Conservative Populism, Daily Bread, Libertarians, Newspapers, Populists, Press
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…
Animals, Beautiful Whitewater, City, Daily Bread, Environment, Local Government, Nature, Plants, Press
Daily Bread for 10.24.21: The Otters of Singapore Offer a Lesson for Whitewater, Wisconsin
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Bad Ideas, City, Daily Bread, Environment, Nature, Open Government, Press, Water
Daily Bread for 10.22.21: Reporting About Artificial Herbicides in Whitewater, Wisconsin
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
City, Housing, Local Government, Police, Press
Broken Policymaking Over a Voucher Program
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Whitewater has a local government that taxes and legislates, and that hires officials who exercise authority over the city’s residents, in a nine-square-mile area. Our local government has its own municipal building, in which it holds regular public meetings, and in which officials can talk to each other and residents in person, by email, text,…
Newspapers, Politics, Press, Sen. Ron Johnson
The Journal Sentinel’s Footnoted Reply to Ron Johnson’s Op-Ed
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Last week, the Journal Sentinel called on Sen. Ron Johnson to resign or be expelled over his repeated election-related lies and conspiracy theories. Johnson wrote in reply to the paper. In response to his reply, the Journal Sentinel footnoted Johnson’s reply with 19 specific refutations. A few remarks: If Johnson runs again, the Journal Sentinel won’t decide…
Conflicts of Interest, Elections, Local Government, Newspapers, Politics, Press, Press Release, School District
Campaign Conflicts of Interest at a Self-Described Local News Source
by JOHN ADAMS • • 5 Comments
The Whitewater Unified School District’s board will see a contested February primary and a contested April general election. Regrettably, Whitewater has no professional newspaper, print or electronic, to cover that race. A post from today at the Whitewater Banner, entitled “Whitewater Unified School District Returns to In-Person Learning; Tom Ganser Photos Show the Excitement at…
Blogging, Culture, Local Government, Newspapers, Politics, Press
After a News Desert
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
A news desert is a community without coverage from a daily newspaper. If coverage means timely newspaper reporting on a city’s principal public meetings and events, then Whitewater has been a news desert since the nearby Daily Jefferson County Union stopped reporting on Whitewater’s common council & school board meetings. If coverage means timely, insightful,…
America, Blogging, History, Newspapers, Press, Press Release, Public Relations
Sullivan on Public Officials as Reporters
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Editors of small-town newspapers sometimes lack the judgment (and self-respect) to remain independent of government. During these lapses of decision-making, one finds that elected or appointed officials become, themselves, reporters on their own stories. (For a case like this in Whitewater involving a school board member, see Public Officials Should Not Be Reporters.) Margaret Sullivan, of the…
Blogging, Newspapers, Press
One Paywall to Rule Them All?
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Two days ago, I wrote about another local newspaper becoming part of the APG chain. See Another Newspaper in the Shredder. It’s possible that these acquisitions will lead to an area-wide paywall, and perhaps even a strong paywall (hard to get around even with advances in incognito browsing). The theory, one supposes, is that the…