Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 44. Sunrise is 6:57 AM and sunset 4:25 PM for 9h 27m 12s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 85.5% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Finance Committee meets at 4:30 PM. On this day in 1924, Edwin Hubble‘s discovery, that the…
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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, Marketing, University, UW System
Daily Bread for 11.5.21: Marketing Won’t Revive UW-Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 52. Sunrise is 7:35 AM and sunset 5:41 PM for 10h 05m 51s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 0.5% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1862, Abraham Lincoln justifiably removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army…
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…
Assault Awareness & Prevention, Daily Bread, Education, Harassment, Indolence, Law, Litigation, Misconduct, University, UW System
Daily Bread for 10.15.21: From UW-Whitewater’s Administration, Too Many and Too Few Words
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
Assault Awareness & Prevention, City, Daily Bread, Law, Litigation, University, UW System
Daily Bread for 10.8.21: Ex-student Stephanie Vander Pas sues for failure of UW-Whitewater to protect her and others from sexual harassment by former chancellor’s husband
by JOHN ADAMS • • 3 Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will see scattered showers with a high of 72. Sunrise is 7:01 AM and sunset 6:22 PM for 11h 21m 22s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 5.6% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1871, fire destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin: Peshtigo, Wisconsin was devastated by a…
City, Daily Bread, University, UW System
Daily Bread for 10.5.21: UW-Whitewater’s Challenges Aren’t Existential
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
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Daily Bread for 9.24.21: Ongoing Enrollment Declines at UW-Whitewater, Elsewhere
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 79. Sunrise is 6:45 AM and sunset 6:47 PM for 12h 01m 35s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 88.5% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1957, President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock,…
Daily Bread, Public Health, University, UW System, Vaccines
Daily Bread for 9.18.21: Vaccination Rates on UW System Campuses
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 79. Sunrise is 6:39 AM and sunset 6:57 PM for 12h 18m 52s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 93.1% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1977, Voyager I takes the first distant photograph [7.25 million miles]…
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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…
Coronavirus, Daily Bread, Right-wing Populism, UW System
Daily Bread for 8.25.21: Thompson Dares Nass in Front of 5.8 Million People
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 90. Sunrise is 6:13 AM and sunset 7:39 PM, for 13h 26m 38s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 90.2% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Committee meets at 5 PM. On this day in 1812, the American frigate, USS United…
Politics, Public Health, Rhetoric, Trumpism, UW System, Vaccines, WISGOP
Steve Nass: Troll-King in Autumn
by JOHN ADAMS • • 5 Comments
For many years, Steve Nass, as a state representative (now a state senator) was a notable farthest-to-the-right Wisconsin politician. The bête noire of liberals and universities, he was the state’s unmatched troll, criticizing the center-left time and again. Nass was a right-wing populist long before Trump. He was the great troll-king of Wisconsin, firing florid press releases…
Education, Free Markets, University, UW System
The System Balks
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
For eight years, there has been a state-imposed price freeze for in-state UW System tuition. (This restriction applied to UW-Whitewater as a System school.) The WISGOP wanted this freeze, and it has lingered since Walker’s defeat in 2018. During its imposition, administrators complained about the freeze, and rightly so: price freezes, even short-term ones, are a…