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Daily Bread for 10.26.21: Wisconsin as a Testbed for Politically-Motivated Violence

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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 54.  Sunrise is 7:22 AM and sunset 5:54 PM for 10h 31m 29s of daytime.  The moon is a waning gibbous with 71.9% of its visible disk illuminated.  Whitewater’s Common Council meets at 6:30 PM.  On this day in 1944, the Battle of Leyte Gulf ends…

Beauty, Daily Bread, Justice, Nature, Wisconsin

Daily Bread for 10.21.21: If Beauty Assured Justice, All Wisconsin Would Be Fair

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Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 54.  Sunrise is 7:16 AM and sunset 6:01 PM for 10h 44m 58s of daytime.  The moon is a waning gibbous with 99.3% of its visible disk illuminated.  The Whitewater School District’s Policy Review Committee meets at 9 AM, Whitewater’s Community Involvement &…

Bad Ideas, Corporate Welfare, Foxconn, Government Spending, Scott Walker, WEDC, Wisconsin

Foxconn: Perhaps – Perhaps – a Few Lessons Learned

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Scott Cohn of CNBC reports After Wisconsin’s Foxconn debacle, states and companies rethink giant subsidies. Rethinking is a hopeful prospect, but there has been significant lasting damage, as Cohn reports: Economic development officials in Wisconsin say they are more than ready to move on to other matters now that they have renegotiated a massive subsidy deal…

America, Culture, Horde, Politics, Sen. Ron Johnson, US Senate Race 2022, Wisconsin

Johnson Picks His Predictable – and Ironic – Platform

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Jessie Opoien reports At WI convention, Ron Johnson calls for GOP to ‘take back our culture’:  Johnson called on Republicans to run candidates at every level of public office, arguing that the GOP has spent too much time focused on federal elections while letting seats go at the local levels. “Take back our school boards, our…

America, History, Holiday, Milwaukee, Politics, Sen. Ron Johnson, U.S. Senate, Unfit, Wisconsin

Ron Johnson Got the Reception He Deserved

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Ron Johnson held up a Senate vote to make Juneteenth a holiday, and when he at last relented, he did so only begrudgingly (“While it still seems strange that having taxpayers provide federal employees paid time off is now required to celebrate the end of slavery, it is clear that there is no appetite in Congress…

City, Courts, Crime, Law, Walworth County, Wisconsin

Wisconsin Supreme Court Grants New Trial in State of Wisconsin v. Alan M. Johnson

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Alan M. Johnson was convicted in Walworth County of first-degree reckless homicide in the death of his brother-in-law. (Johnson’s late brother-in-law is identified in today’s high court opinion as ‘K.M.’ The events of the case took place in Whitewater, and the Walworth County trial was before Circuit Judge Kristine Drettwan.) Johnson appealed his conviction, and…

Bad Ideas, Boosterism, Development, Foxconn, Government Spending, Politics, Scott Walker, Speaker Vos, Trump, WEDC, Wisconsin

Adding the Amounts Spent for Foxconn (So Far)

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Wisconsin’s new deal with Foxconn will reduce the cost to state taxpayers, but local governments have already spent vast sums on a project that will not – by Foxconn’s own belated admission – come close to what was originally, and ludicrously, promised. Bruce Murphy writes of The True Costs of New Foxconn Deal: the true cost…