Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 75. Sunrise is 6:08 AM and sunset 7:46 PM for 13h 38m 04s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 27.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1680, Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from the Spanish during the…
UW Madison
Daily Bread, UW Madison, UW System, WISGOP
Daily Bread for 5.17.22: WISGOP Whining About the Next Chancellor of UW-Madison
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 74. Sunrise is 5:29 AM and sunset 8:13 PM for 14h 44m 29s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 97.5% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater School Board’s Policy Review Committee meets at 9 AM and Whitewater’s Common Council…
Daily Bread, Employment, University, UW Madison, UW System, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 11.12.21: UW-Madison Charts the Right Course on Vaccination
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Daily Bread, Education, School District, University, UW Madison, UW System
Daily Bread for 10.18.21: UW System Vacancies and New Hires
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
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…
Daily Bread, Legislature, Litigation, Public Health, UW Madison, UW System, Vaccines, WISGOP
Daily Bread for 9.4.21: Nass Digs In
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will see showers with a high of 73. Sunrise is 6:24 AM and sunset 7:22 PM, for 12h 58m 51s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 7.2% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1882, the Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first power plant…
Daily Bread, Public Health, UW Madison, UW System, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 9.3.21: UW-Madison Reports 90% Vaccinated
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of 71. Sunrise is 6:22 AM and sunset 7:24 PM, for 13h 01m 40s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 13.7% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1777, during the Battle of Cooch’s Bridge, the Flag of the United States…
Bad Ideas, Corporate Welfare, Foxconn, UW Madison
Foxconn & UW-Madison: Two Years and Less Than One Percent Later…
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
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
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
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!
by JOHN ADAMS • • 5 Comments
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…
Cats, Science/Nature, UW Madison
Friday Catblogging: UW-Madison Students Design New Back Legs for Injured Cat
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Bad Ideas, CDA, City, Corporate Welfare, Development, Economy, Employment, Foxconn, Government Spending, Open Government, State Capitalism, State Government, That Which Paved the Way, UW Madison
Foxconn’s Secret Deal with UW-Madison
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
These last several years in Wisconsin have seen a politics of corporate manipulation of public spending and a retreat from principles of open government. Businesses and business lobbying groups routinely expect public money for business projects that should be wholly private. (Scheming development gurus often refer to taxpayer money as their ‘tools,’ as though the…