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Daily Bread for 4.18.23: A Survey on Wisconsin’s Civic and Political Life (3 of 3)

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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 53. Sunrise is 6:07 AM and sunset 7:40 PM for 13h 33m 54s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 3.8% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater Common Council meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1775, the British…

Culture, Daily Bread, Politics, UW Madison, Wisconsin

Daily Bread for 4.16.23: A Survey on Wisconsin’s Civic and Political Life (1 of 3)

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Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 59. Sunrise is 6:10 AM and sunset 7:38 PM for 13h 28m 25s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 16.2% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1926, Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.…

Daily Bread, Education, University, UW Madison, UW System, Wisconsin

Daily Bread for 10.22.22: Report Shows College Enrollment Down Across Wisconsin

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Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 77. Sunrise is 7:17 AM and sunset 6:00 PM for 10h 42m 54s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 9.4% of its visible disk illuminated.  Today at 8 AM, the Whitewater Common Council meets in closed session to conduct interviews…

Daily Bread, Employment, University, UW Madison, UW System, Vaccines

Daily Bread for 11.12.21: UW-Madison Charts the Right Course on Vaccination

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Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will see scattered of showers of rain or snow with a high of 39.  Sunrise is 6:44 AM and sunset 4:33 PM for 9h 49m 20s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing gibbous with 60.3% of its visible disk illuminated.  On this day, in 1970, the Oregon Highway Commission decides…

Daily Bread, Education, School District, University, UW Madison, UW System

Daily Bread for 10.18.21: UW System Vacancies and New Hires

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Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 71.  Sunrise is 7:13 AM and sunset 6:06 PM for 10h 53m 14s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing gibbous with 95.5% of its visible disk illuminated.  Whitewater’s Library Board meets at 6:30 PM.  On this day in 1851, Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is…

Bad Ideas, Corporate Welfare, Foxconn, UW Madison

Foxconn & UW-Madison: Two Years and Less Than One Percent Later…

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Kelly Meyerhofer reports UW-Madison still waiting on Foxconn’s $100 million pledge 2 years later: Foxconn Technology Group gave no money to UW-Madison over the past year, renewing questions about the company’s commitment to its $100 million pledge to the university nearly two years ago. UW-Madison received $700,000 in the first of a five-year agreement — less than…

Budget, Coronavirus, Public Health, University, UW Madison, UW System

UW System President Ray Cross’s Overreach

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Outgoing UW System President Ray Cross claims he has a long-range plan for the System, and he’s insistent that now is the time for its implementation. Henry Redman of the Wisconsin Examiner reports on the reasonable concern that Cross’s rush to implementation presents in UW faculty worry about ‘power grab’ by Cross at budget listening…

Bad Ideas, CDA, Corporate Welfare, Development, Foxconn, Government Spending, Mendacity, That Which Paved the Way, UW Madison, WEDC

Be Patient, UW-Madison: Only $99,300,000.00 to Go!

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If a group invited a guest speaker who said the world was flat, then that group would be rightly discarded as a credible policy advocate. In Whitewater and other towns, crony-capitalist groups of different sizes proudly declared the Foxconn project a boon for Wisconsin. (Trump, himself, declared it a boon for the whole planet: “the…