Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be intermittently cloudy with a high of 37. Sunrise is 7:02 AM and sunset 5:15 PM for 10h 13m 11s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 30.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1967, nationally-known activist Stokely Carmichael speaks at UW-Whitewater as part of…
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Crime, Daily Bread, Insurrection, Law, Politics, Sedition, Trump, Trumpism
Daily Bread for 2.5.22: He’d Give Them Pardons
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City, Crime, Daily Bread, Insurrection, Law, Local Government, Politics, Trump, Trumpism
Daily Bread for 1.30.22: Trump Teases Pardons for Insurrectionists and Rioters
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Daily Bread, Horde, Libertarians, Never Trump, Sen. Ron Johnson, Trump, Trumpism
Daily Bread for 1.14.22: But He’s Like This Now…
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Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 29. Sunrise is 7:22 AM and sunset 4:45 PM for 9h 23m 23s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 89.6% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1952, NBC’s long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.…
Crime, Daily Bread, Insurrection, Trump, Trumpism
Daily Bread for 1.6.22: The Trumpist Insurrection, One Year On
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Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 14. Sunrise is 7:25 AM and sunset 4:37 PM for 9h 11m 55s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 18.7% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM, and the Whitewater Fire Department holds a board and…
Bad Ideas, Books, Confidence Schemes, Conflicts of Interest, Corporate Welfare, Daily Bread, Development, Foxconn, Mendacity, Scott Walker, State Capitalism, Trump, WEDC
Daily Bread for 12.11.21: A Christmas Gift For, and About, Scheming Development Men
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Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will see snow this morning, of little accumulation, on an otherwise cloudy day with a high of 36. Sunrise is 7:16 AM and sunset 4:20 PM for 9h 04m 43s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 55.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1901, Morris Pratt…
Conservative Populism, Daily Bread, Private Property, Social Media, Trump, Trumpism
Daily Bread for 10.6.21: Trump Whines About Twitter Ban
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Books, Politics, Presidential race 2020, Trump
Inside the Last Gasps of the Trump Presidency
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Ever wondered what it was like inside the White House during the final months, weeks, and even moments of the Trump presidency? Where better to find out than on Hell & High Water with John Heilemann’s grand return? In this special two-part episode, Heilemann has on Michael Bender, senior White House reporter for The Wall…
Local Government, Never Trump, Politics, Right-wing Populism, School District, State Government, Trump, Trumpism
Conservative Populism Moves in One Direction Only
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
While there’s more than one kind of conservative Republican (traditionalist, transactionalist, or populist), it’s the populists who are the most numerous and most demanding. Over time, they’ve pushed other kinds of conservatives – even transactionalists who are behind-the-scenes manipulators – into subordinate positions. (See generally Whitewater’s Local Politics 2021.) These rightwing populists have outlasted Trump,…
Bad Ideas, Boosterism, Development, Foxconn, Government Spending, Politics, Scott Walker, Speaker Vos, Trump, WEDC, Wisconsin
Adding the Amounts Spent for Foxconn (So Far)
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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…
Bad Ideas, CDA, Development, Foxconn, Scott Walker, Trump
Foxconn: Seth Meyers on One of Trump’s (and Walker’s) Biggest Scams, the Foxconn Deal
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The Wisconsin Foxconn project that Trump, Walker, and local development men touted was a house of cards, with each card in the deck no better than a three of spades. Their supposedly serious effort now finds itself a national punchline. Previously: 10 Key Articles About Foxconn, Foxconn as Alchemy: Magic Multipliers, Foxconn Destroys Single-Family Homes, Foxconn Devours Tens of Millions from State’s…
Bad Ideas, CDA, Corporate Welfare, Development, Economics, Economy, Foxconn, Government Spending, Mendacity, Scott Walker, Trump, WEDC
Foxconn: New, More Realistic Deal Means 90% Reduction in Goals
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After years of flamboyant lies about what Foxconn would be able to achieve in Wisconsin, there’s a new deal with that foreign corporation. That new arrangement reflects a reduction of 90% or more in what Wisconsin expects and what the state will offer. Local governments have already wasted millions on absurdly grandiose, false promises Not…