I’ll not blame Americans for their skepticism of an unstimulating federal stimulus. Reason has the story at 45 Percent of Americans Want to Cancel the Rest of the Stimulus

In the post immediately below, a dash cam calls into question an official justification for the use of a taser on a seventy-two year old woman. Note, though, that the cam might also exonerate other officers, in other situations, where they were falsely accused of misconduct. Whitewater gains when her public officials are open, and…

Perhaps one soon won’t need any other health benefits, in that federal utopia the Obama administration leads us toward… The Beginning of the End of Private Health Insurance Sent via BlackBerry

Official candor from police leaders, including a police chief taking questions directly from children, is a true expression of community policing. Admirable. A ‘Big Problem’- Heroin – Rattles Small-Town Milton

Editor & Publisher asks if most print newspapers will be gone in ten years. I think nearly half will be – they’ll be online. Here’s the link: Will Most Newspapers, in Print, Be Gone in 10 Years?

What we resolve often matters less than what we do afterward, and what we do afterward often requires action beyond what we initially resolved.  On May 26th, our public school district, in Whitewater, Wisconsin and nearby towns, passed a resolution against racism. Here is the full text of their resolution: Whitewater Unified School District Resolution…

Good morning, Whitewater In our schools, there will be a band concert today at Washington School, at 2 p.m. and again at 7 p.m. 

Some towns across America are so desperate to escape the effects of this deep recession that they are considering the dubious step of disincorporation. That will not, and truly cannot, happen for Whitewater, Wisconsin. Yet, we might have relied so much less on state funding, and weaned ourselves from it in better times. See, Towns…

We have public meeting after public meeting in Whitewater, on all sorts of topics, some important, some not. Few involve topics required as a matter of federal constitutional law. The decennial census is one of them, from Article I § 2 of the United States Constitution. Meetings about the census should be among our most…

I received the following press release, that I am happy to post – The Walworth County Genealogical Society will meet on Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 7:00 PM, at the Community Centre, 826 E. Geneva Street, Delavan. There will be a presentation of the pioneers buried in the Calvary Cemetery, Whitewater, WI. The deceased were from…

I received the following announcement, that I am happy to post, about a wiki (a collaborative webpage) at the university to which those with memories of UWW can contribute — “UW-W: Then and Now” created in celebration of the inauguration of Chancellor Richard J. Telfer, is a place where members of the broader UW-W community…

Over at the Janesville Gazette online, there’s news that Wisconsin’s Hispanic population is about 5% statewide. It is surely far higher in Whitewater, likely over 10% if counted thoroughly. Fortunately, the population is too large to be intimidated or badgered out of town; Whitewater’s local Know-Nothings are out of luck – our future is a…

A quiet end to the week, and beginning of a new month, with so much ahead in May. Almanac Friday, May 1, 2009 Sunrise Sunset Official Time 05:49AM 07:55 PM Civil Twilight 05:18 AM 08:26 PM Tomorrow 05:58 AM 08:26 PM Tomorrow will be: 2 minutes longer Amount of sunlight: 14h 6m Amount of daylight:…

Good morning, Whitewater There’s a meeting of the Whitewater-University Tech Park Board at at 12:30 p.m. A happy memory from the Wisconsin Historical Society — On this date [in 1954] Hank Aaron, playing for the Milwaukee Braves, hit his first major league home run. Twenty years later he broke Babe Ruth’s career home run record…