Over in the Town of Linn, someone is trying to make sure Chief Winsiewski and his officers understand that sale of evidence connected with an investigation is wrong. Someone might try to make sure Elkhorn understands how sales like this taint law enforcement and the administration of justice. The problem in all this – ordinary…

As one finds in so many towns, the greatest problem is hiding away or rationalizing misconduct. Not the crime, if any, but the cover up… http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/local/446055

It’s election day in our small town, and here are a few remarks on local races.   District 3. Jim Winship’s running as a registered write-in candidate.  He’ll win the seat, and thereafter have to decide how much, and how intensely, to pursue Dr. Nosek’s agenda.  Those interested in a less restrictive, market-oriented approach should have…

A fitting publication for election day — The April 2009 Newsletter has a schedule of upcoming LWV events. A copy of the newsletter is available as a pdf link in this post, and as a link on my blogroll (on the left column of this website). Here is a partial listing of events, with more…

I received the following press release that I am happy to post —  Lakeview Elementary Honors Local Child Survivors of Heart Disease With Annual Jump Rope For Heart Event Who:  Lakeview Elementary students and staff and local child survivors of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome and their families (Families and staff available for media interviews) What: …

Continuing for the next several 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…

Good morning, Whitewater The Park and Recreation Board meets tonight at 5:30 p.m. Otherwise, the City’s just just waiting until election day — what else could private citizens have to do? I’ll post on city races tomorrow morning, with thoughts on Kienbaum and Nosek race, in particular. In Wisconsin history on this date, from 1831,…

One reads that about 50 people attended each of the WUSD administrator forums. The population of our district is more than the number in the City of Whitewater (14,296). The fraction is even smaller, then, than the one my proportion suggests. No sensible person could consider this a respectable community turnout, and less so when…

On the Timing and Location of the Reception and Public Forum.  It’s one each day, for two days, from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., at the Whitewater Country Club, on March 31st and April 1st, for the administrator candidates.  One could not offer better evidence of the failed culture of our community.    (A matter-of-fact email…

Over the next two days, two candidates, Dr. Suzanne Zentner of Arizona, and Dr. Dennis Pauli of Illinois, will visit our city as candidates for District Administrator of the Whitewater Unified School District.  I know as much, from announcements in newspapers, private websites, and our own district’s announcement.  One can find that announcement through a…

Continuing for the next several 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…

Readers know that I am not a particular admirer of the English, denizens of a dank, cramped isle, practitioners (mostly) of a dank, cramped politics, (where have you gone, Mrs. Thatcher?), and adherents of a dank, cramped culture.       Yet, all is not lost, as I see from a fine speech from a British member…

Continuing for the next several 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…

In Salisbury, Maryland, outgoing mayor and scapegoater Barrie Parsons Tighman contends that malicious bloggers are ruining her town. Sounds familiar, I wouldn’t wonder. It’s just as false, too – an insular, thin-skinned town elite will often say whatever it wants, on any subject, about anyone, but quickly criticizes the First Amendment rights of bloggers on…