Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will see scattered showers this morning with a later mix of sun and clouds and a high of 71. Sunrise is 6:35 and sunset is 7:02 for 12 hours 27 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waxing crescent with 28.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Parks and…
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Daily Bread for 9.14.26: City of Whitewater’s September Polling Place Memo Changes the Question (from ‘Consolidation’ to Relocation)
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be variably cloudy with a high of 71. Sunrise is 6:33 and sunset is 7:06 for 12 hours 33 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waxing crescent with 12.7 percent of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Plan and Architectural Review Commission meets at 6 PM. On this day…
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Daily Bread for 8.27.26: The Value of a UW-Whitewater Education (And of Other Schools Across this Continent)
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 79. Sunrise is 6:14 and sunset is 7:37 for 13 hours 23 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 99.6 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1832, Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk, surrenders to U.S.…
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Daily Bread for 8.5.26: Council Discussion of the Proposed Discontinuation of the UW–Whitewater Polling Place in Odd-Numbered Years
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 71. Sunrise is 5:50 and sunset is 8:10 for 14 hours 20 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning gibbous with 56.5 percent of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Comprehensive Plan Advisory Work Group meets virtually at 4 PM. On this day…
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Daily Bread for 8.4.26: Preliminary Remarks Against the Proposed Discontinuation of the UW–Whitewater Polling Place in Odd-Numbered Years
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will see evening showers with a high of 80. Sunrise is 5:49 and sunset is 8:11 for 14 hours 22 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning gibbous with 67.6 percent of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater Common Council meets at 6 PM. Mention of a proposed reduction…
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Daily Bread for 7.13.26: The Cultivation of Curiosity
by JOHN ADAMS •
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Daily Bread for 5.31.26: Equal Residents All Along
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 75. Sunrise is 5:19 and sunset is 8:26 for 15 hours 7 minutes of daylight. The moon is full today. On this day in 1916, at the Battle of Jutland the British Grand Fleet engages the German High Seas Fleet in the largest naval battle of…
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Daily Bread for 5.21.26: An Ordinary Student Festival in a Normal College Town
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 59. Sunrise is 5:26 and sunset is 8:17 for 14 hours 51 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 29.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets at 5:30 PM. The Whitewater School Board’s Strategic Planning…
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Daily Bread for 5.18.26: After Graduation
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be cloudy with scattered showers and a high of 80. Sunrise is 5:29 and sunset is 8:14 for 14 hours 45 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 4.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Library Board meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in…
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Daily Bread for 4.10.26: The Best Town Newspaper for Local Affairs This Year? It’s Been the Royal Purple.
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of 52. Sunrise is 6:21 and sunset is 7:31 for 13 hours 10 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 46.7 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1606, the Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter…
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Daily Bread for 1.18.26: Wisconsin Legislative Committee Releases Additional Funds for UW System
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 16. Sunrise is 7:21 and sunset is 4:50 for 9 hours 29 minutes of daytime. The moon is new. On this day in 1977, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announce they have identified a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires’…
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Daily Bread for 10.25.25: The Final Fall Enrollment Numbers for UW-Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 53. Sunrise is 7:20 and sunset is 5:56 for 10 hours 36 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 13.8 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Adlai Stevenson shows the…
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Daily Bread for 9.10.25: For UW-Whitewater, More Students Mean More Opportunity
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 75. Sunrise is 6:29 and sunset is 7:13, for 12 hours, 43 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 89.6 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1607, Edward Maria Wingfield is ousted as first president of the…
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Daily Bread for 1.27.25: A State of UW-Whitewater Presentation
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning.
Monday in Whitewater will be windy with a high of 38. Sunrise is 7:14 and sunset is 5:01, for 9 hours, 48 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 4.8 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
The Whitewater School Board’s Policy Review Committee meets at 6:15 PM, and the School Board meets at 7 PM.
On this day in 1776, Henry Knox‘s “noble train of artillery” arrives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
On 1.9.25, UW-Whitewater Chancellor Dr. Corey King delivered a State of the University presentation at a Whitewater-Area League of Women Voters’ meeting. (The university’s formal State of the University Address will be on 3.18.25.)
A few remarks:
While I don’t believe that Wisconsin’s university system is better off with a WISGOP legislature, legislative pressure has demanded in response a more skillful university chancellor than ones our campus has fifteen years ago. There’s less local control over public universities in Wisconsin than in years past, but Whitewater did poorly with the choices her local input produced (Telfer, Kopper). See on the problem of poor local judgment The Dark, Futile Dream and Revisiting Kozloff’s ‘Dark, Futile Dream.’
These are not times of local university control. For this city, the decline of local control has led, it seems, to a decidedly more competent chancellor. If local control should one day return, Whitewater will have to produce better recommendations than she did years ago.
For now, however unwelcome the legislative balance, Whitewater is fortunate that she has better than her own past judgment brought.
One should be careful about breaking pets’ treats in half. They don’t like it: