Good morning, Whitewater. Our month ends with a high of thirty-nine and a probability of late-morning, early-afternoon showers. Sunrise is 7:09 and sunset 5:06, for 9h 57m 03s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 55.5% of its visible disk illuminated. Here’s schedule of posts for the week ahead, with other posts possible…
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Infrastructure, Public Spending, the Local Economy
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Whitewater’s an unusual town: most cities in Wisconsin don’t host a college campus. Nearby cities may have living there some faculty and staff from UW-Whitewater, but that economic boost pales in comparison with the presence of a campus along Main, with thousands of students attending. Our infrastructure is different owing to the presence of the…
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Daily Bread for 1.10.16
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Good morning, Whitewater. Sunday will be cold, but with increasing sunshine on a day with a high of nine degrees. Sunrise is 7:24 and sunset 4:40, for 9h 16m 24s of daytime. It’s a new moon, with just .4% of that natural satellite’s visible disk illuminated. Clemson or Alabama tomorrow? That was the FW poll question…
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Daily Bread for 11.28.15
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning, Whitewater. Saturday in the Whippet City will be partly cloudy with a high of thirty-eight. Sunrise is 7:03 and sunset is 4:22, for 9h 19m 49s of daytime. The moon’s a waning gibbous with 90.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1520, Magellan reaches the Pacific: Ferdinand Magellan… Portuguese: Fernão de…
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Sunday Animation: Mickey’s Good Deed
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Daily Bread for 12.20.14
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Good morning, Whitewater. Saturday in Whitewater will be cloudy in the morning, sunny in the afternoon, with a high of thirty-four for the day. Sunrise is 7:22 AM and sunset 4:23 PM, for 9h 01m 40s of daytime. On this day in 1989, America begins an operation to topple Panama’s leader: WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Dec. 20…
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WEDC Claims Success by Writing Off Bad Loans
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Wisconsin has had years of embarrassments from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, of economic manipulation, of picking supposed winners as though party hacks would know better than markets. It was a method bound to disappoint. These smarmy men at the WEDC have been trying to show progress on the millions of bad loans they’ve made.…
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Daily Bread for 8.26.14
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Good morning, Whitewater. Tuesday looks to be partly sunny, with a high of seventy-nine, and a one-third chance of late morning showers. On this day in 1939, the first MLB game is televised: …first televised Major League baseball game is broadcast on station W2XBS, the station that was to become WNBC-TV. Announcer Red Barber called…
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World YoYo Champion Gentry Stein
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Monday Music: Jingle Cats, Silent Night
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Daily Bread for 12.1.13
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Good morning. A new month begins with partly sunny skies and a high of thirty eight. On this day in 1884, an accident alters studies at UW-Madison: 1884 – Fire Destroys UW Building On this date fire destroyed Science Hall on the UW-Madison campus. As a result, engineering students were forced to use the cramped…
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Daily Bread for 7.7.13
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Whitewater’s Sunday brings a one-third chance of late afternoon showers and thundershowers, with a high of eighty-four. Sunrise was at 5:24 a.m., and sunset will be at 8:36 p.m. There will be a new moon overnight at 2:15 a.m. Photograph of the Hoover Dam (formerly Boulder Dam) from Across the Colorado River. From…