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’…
Wisconsin
Budget, Daily Bread, State Government, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 1.16.26: Wisconsin’s Projected Budget Surplus Grows
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 35. Sunrise is 7:22 and sunset is 4:47 for 9 hours 25 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 5.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1945, with the Third Reich retreating on all fronts, Hitler moves…
Authoritarian Populism, Daily Bread, Hunger, State Government, Trumpism, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 1.15.26: Wisconsin Moves to Support Program for Local Food Banks After Federal Funding Cuts
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be windy with a high of 23. Sunrise is 7:22 and sunset is 4:46 for 9 hours 24 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 10.2 percent of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets at 5:30 PM. On this day in 1967, the…
Business, Daily Bread, Gubernatorial Race 2026, Regulations, Wisconsin, WisDems, WISGOP
Daily Bread for 1.14.26: Microsoft’s View on Wisconsin Data Centers
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be windy with a high of 23. Sunrise is 7:23 and sunset is 4:45 for 9 hours 22 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 15.8 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1911, Roald Amundsen‘s South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge…
Business, Daily Bread, Gubernatorial Race 2026, Regulations, Wisconsin, WisDems, WISGOP
Daily Bread for 1.13.26: Gubernatorial Candidates’ Views on Data Centers
by JOHN ADAMS •
Daily Bread, Health, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 1.12.26: Stocking Vending Machines with Flu Tests Is a Sensible Policy
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 43. Sunrise is 7:24 and sunset is 4:42 for 9 hours 18 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 32 percent of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets at 6 PM. On this day in 1969, the New…
Conservation, Daily Bread, Nature, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 1.11.26: A Conservation Success for Wisconsin
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 32. Sunrise is 7:24 and sunset is 4:41 for 9 hours 17 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 41 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1820, the Great Savannah Fire of 1820 destroys over 400 buildings in Savannah,…
Daily Bread, Science/Nature, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 1.9.26: A Wisconsin Trail Weaving Indigenous Knowledge with Western Science
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 57. Sunrise is 7:25 and sunset is 4:39 for 9 hours 14 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 60.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 2007, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone at a Macworld keynote in San Francisco.…
Daily Bread, Elections, Gubernatorial Race 2026, Presidential race 2016, Presidential race 2020, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 1.8.26: False Political Equivalence from the Journal Sentinel
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 55. Sunrise is 7:25 and sunset is 4:38 for 9 hours 13 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 69.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1790, President Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New…
Authoritarian Populism, Authoritarianism, Daily Bread, Politics, Populists, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 1.6.26: A Conventional Framing for Unconventional Times
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 38. Sunrise is 7:25 and sunset is 4:36 for 9 hours 11 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 86.4 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 2021, supporters of Donald Trump storm the United States Capitol Building to disrupt the…
Daily Bread, Legislature, Politics, Wisconsin, WisDems, WISGOP
Daily Bread for 1.4.26: Wisconsin Assembly Agendas
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of 30. Sunrise is 7:25 and sunset is 4:34 for 9 hours 9 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 97.7 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1944, Operation Carpetbagger, involving the dropping of arms and…
Daily Bread, Weather, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 12.30.25: Big Snowfall… Up North
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 24. Sunrise is 7:25 and sunset is 4:30 for 9 hours 5 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 80.6 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1916, Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, is…
Daily Bread, Gubernatorial Race 2026, Wisconsin, WISGOP
Daily Bread for 12.29.25: Statewide, $40 Million in the Primary Won’t Assure 51% in the Fall
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be windy with a high of 22. Sunrise is 7:25 and sunset is 4:29 for 9 hours 4 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 70.6 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1170, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers…
Daily Bread, Nature, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 12.26.25: Winter
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 43. Sunrise is 7:24 and sunset is 4:26 for 9 hours 2 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 37.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1776, in the Battle of Trenton, the Continental Army under General George Washington executes a…