Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 24. Sunrise is 7:19 and sunset is 4:53 for 9 hours 34 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 7.4 percent of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Parks and Recreation Board meets at 5:30 PM, and the Library Board meets…
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Business, Daily Bread, Gubernatorial Race 2026, Regulations, Wisconsin, WisDems, WISGOP
Daily Bread for 1.14.26: Microsoft’s View on Wisconsin Data Centers
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be windy with a high of 23. Sunrise is 7:23 and sunset is 4:45 for 9 hours 22 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 15.8 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1911, Roald Amundsen‘s South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge…
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Daily Bread for 1.13.26: Gubernatorial Candidates’ Views on Data Centers
by JOHN ADAMS •
Daily Bread, Drink, Regulations
Daily Bread for 2.20.22: Keeping Kombucha Under the Limit
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 53. Sunrise is 6:43 AM and sunset 5:33 PM for 10h 50m 49s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 81% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of Massachusetts’s mandatory smallpox vaccination…
Corporate Welfare, Economics, Economy, Free Markets, Immigration, Local Government, Politics, Regulations, State Capitalism, That Which Paved the Way
Immigration as a Community Lifeline
by JOHN ADAMS •
Art Cullen writes Help wanted: Rural America needs immigrants: President Trump argues that keeping immigrants and refugees out of our country is a matter of vital national security. He has made it his campaign thesis and shut down the government over it. Here in Storm Lake, Iowa, where the population is about 15,000 and unemployment is under…
Drink, Food, Regulations
The Kombucha Freedom Warrior
by JOHN ADAMS •
As fermented products become more common as health fads, questions about regulation are being raised. For one, kombucha is the product of fermenting tea with a culture of live yeast and bacteria. As a result, the beverage has a variable alcohol content—and some of its producers are being targeted by the federal regulators. In this…
City, Regulations, University
Paradise is just one regulation away…
by JOHN ADAMS •
Whitewater’s had a problem with occasional crowds, as at Spring Splash, and so now a few from the Old Guard are sure that yet another regulation on private property will bring a city of order, harmony, and smiling-faced residents. They’re confident it’s the answer, relying on the old adage that the twelve thousand, four hundred,…
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Vulnerability of a Restaurant Culture
by JOHN ADAMS •
View image | gettyimages.com Whitewater’s publicly-driven marketing may not have amounted to much, these last ten years, but there are few better advertisements for Whitewater than thriving restaurants and taverns. Good restaurants, doing well, are a sign of a successful community. Some of Whitewater’s newest restaurants also reflect a sensibility that’s significantly more contemporary than…