Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 47. Sunrise is 5:54 AM and sunset 7:50 PM for 13h 55m 53s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 19.1% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Board of Assessment meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1564, William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire,…
Speaker Vos
Courts, Daily Bread, Law, Legislature, Open Government, Politics, Public Records, Speaker Vos
Daily Bread for 3.31.22: The One Effective Trick Robin Vos Learned He Learned Before Trump
by JOHN ADAMS •
Big Lie, Daily Bread, Elections, Flop Sweat, Horde, Legislature, Politics, Speaker Vos
Daily Bread for 3.18.22: Small, Scared Man Pours Gasoline on Fire and Runs Away
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will see rain, and perhaps some snow, with a high of 38. Sunrise is 6:59 AM and sunset 7:05 PM for 12h 05m 49s of daytime. The moon is full with 100% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1865, the Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last…
Conspiracy Theories, Crackpots, Daily Bread, Speaker Vos, WISGOP
Daily Bread for 2.17.22: Vos Primly Lectures Fanatics on the Dangers of Fanaticism
by JOHN ADAMS •
Conspiracy Theories, Crackpots, Daily Bread, Food, Gubernatorial Race 2022, Politics, Speaker Vos, Trumpism, Wisconsin, WISGOP
Daily Bread for 2.13.22: Vos, Now on the Trumpists’ Menu, Deserves No Sympathy
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 15. Sunrise is 6:53 AM and sunset 5:24 PM for 10h 31m 33s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 91.8% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1689, William and Mary are proclaimed co-rulers of England. Molly Beck reports A…
Daily Bread, Law, Open Government, Public Records, Speaker Vos
Daily Bread for 2.9.22: Shreddin’ and Deletin’ Vos
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will see occasional show showers with a high of 39. Sunrise is 6:58 AM and sunset 5:19 PM for 10h 20m 56s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 60.8% of its visible disk illuminated. There will be a joint meeting of the Common Council, Community Development Authority,…
Courts, Daily Bread, Legislature, Speaker Vos, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 1.12.22: Speaker and Deponent
by JOHN ADAMS •
Bad Ideas, Boosterism, Development, Foxconn, Government Spending, Politics, Scott Walker, Speaker Vos, Trump, WEDC, Wisconsin
Adding the Amounts Spent for Foxconn (So Far)
by JOHN ADAMS •
Wisconsin’s new deal with Foxconn will reduce the cost to state taxpayers, but local governments have already spent vast sums on a project that will not – by Foxconn’s own belated admission – come close to what was originally, and ludicrously, promised. Bruce Murphy writes of The True Costs of New Foxconn Deal: the true cost…
Speaker Vos, WEDC
Speaker Vos Appoints Himself to the WEDC Board
by JOHN ADAMS •
Bad Ideas, Boosterism, Business, CDA, Corporate Welfare, Foxconn, Gov. Walker, Government Spending, Speaker Vos, State Capitalism, Taxes/Taxation, Technology, Trump, WEDC, Wisconsin, WISGOP
Highlight’s from The Verge’s Foxconn Assessment
by JOHN ADAMS •
No failure better reveals the bankruptcy of corporate welfare in the Walker and Trump years than the Foxconn project in Wisconsin: exaggeration upon exaggeration, but nothing productive. This was a failure of judgment so obvious and significant that everyone involved should retire from policymaking. Walker Administration, Trump Administration, the WISGOP, the WEDC, down to Whitewater’s Community…
Bad Ideas, Boosterism, Business, CDA, Corporate Welfare, Foxconn, Gov. Walker, Government Spending, Speaker Vos, State Capitalism, State Government, Technology, WEDC, WISGOP
Accountability Comes Calling at Foxconn
by JOHN ADAMS •
After years of grandiose – ludicrous, truly – claims about Foxconn from Trump to Vos to boosters in Whitewater, Accountability has made her way to Foxconn. If not Accountability personified, then at least Missy Hughes (the new, Evers-appointed leader) of a slightly-reformed WEDC. Josh Dzieza of the national publication The Verge reports Wisconsin denies Foxconn tax…
Coronavirus, Elections, Irony, Public Health, Speaker Vos, WISGOP
Speaker Vos – wearing personal protective equipment – insists it’s ‘incredibly safe to go out’
by JOHN ADAMS •
Bad Ideas, Coronavirus, Politics, Public Health, Religion, Scott Fitzgerald, Speaker Vos
If Vos & Fitzgerald Read More, and Spoke Less
by JOHN ADAMS •
So Speaker Vos and Senate Majority Leader Fitzgerald want Gov. Evers to allow an exception to the Safer at Home order for Easter Sunday services. (They’ve also included Passover in their request, but they’re either too ignorant or too dishonest to concede that Passover is commemorated traditionally in a home setting. It’s obviously a certain…