I received an email recently from a defender of free expression and longtime reader of FREE WHITEWATER,  The Mysterious Miss X.  Very much my pleasure to hear from her again, and so very pleased that she’s doing so well.   Here’s what Miss X had to say, with my reply thereafter:  Hi John Adams,  It’s been…

Tom Weber of Price County photographed his cat standing up to a bear. The cat held its ground, and the bear moved off. Regardless of the bear’s intentions, there’s a lot of moxie in that cat. Photo Slideshow: Bear and Cat Standoff Sent via BlackBerry

I’ve often commented on the local press covering Whitewater, and how print newspapers are facing a bleak future. What, though, of editorial cartoons, once so much a part of a daily newspaper’s editorial page? Editor & Publisher asks if the cartoon might vanish… Editor & Publisher: Will the Editorial Cartoonist Vanish?

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel keeps track of federal stimulus money sent to Wisconsin. The Journal Sentinel also links to the Wisconsin Office of Recovery and Reinvestment. How your federal dollars are being spent… Wisconsin Stimulus Money Tracker Sent via BlackBerry

Fear-mongering from the mainstream media, culprit number one – Time magazine. Time Magazine’s Long History of Scaring the Hell Out of You

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…