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…

Many communities have regulations against chickens or other animals on a private homeowner’s land. Even one may violate a city’s code. These government impositions on private activity likely have less to do with health than with the class consciousness of regulators against activities deemed beneath them. Urban chickens? You bet – Wisconsin State Journal: Milwaukee…

Reason offers a good question this Earth Day – Yielding to Ideology Over Science: Why don’t environmentalists celebrate modern farming on Earth Day? In the past 50 years, crop yields have more than doubled while global land area devoted to agriculture increased just 5 percent. This is because modern farming practices, including biotech enhanced crops,…

The unsurprising risks of unprecedented federal spending, and the limits of a supposed government-private partnership: Bank bailout may hurt taxpayers, be open to fraud

Continuing for the next few weeks, it’s Prisoner Monday here at Free Whitewater. Why? Because a longtime reader previously suggested to me that being in Whitewater sometimes felt like living the plot of The Prisoner. It’s a great British series, that tells the story of a secret agent who resigns from his agency, only to…

Nick Gillespie, libertarian editor of Reason.com, expresses free market concerns about the Obama Administration’s worrisome – that’s being delicate – economic program. (Note well – there’s nothing delicate about Gillespie’s language in the article.) http://www.reason.com/blog/show/132929.html

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Another Local-o-Meter’s up (see previous post), and now it’s on to the content of the Whitewater Register, our weekly newspaper of record.    Lede Story.  The above-the-fold story is the paper’s the announcement (made last Thursday) that Dr. Suzanne Zentner will be the new WUSD District Administrator.  There’s no interview with Zentner, and even the quote…

“United Will Require Obese Passengers to Buy Second Ticket.”