Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will see occasional flurries with a high of 23. Sunrise is 7:11 AM and sunset 5:04 PM for 9h 53m 38s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 9.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1980, the Rubik’s Cube makes its international debut at the Ideal Toy…
WISGOP
Daily Bread, Gubernatorial Race 2022, Kleefisch, Nicholson, Politics, WISGOP
Daily Bread for 1.26.22: Kevin and Rebecca
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 8. Sunrise is 7:14 AM and sunset 5:00 PM for 9h 46m 50s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 39.1% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Park Board meets at 5:30 PM. On this day in 1925, a fire destroyed the Whitewater…
Daily Bread, WISGOP
Daily Bread for 1.23.22: Again & Again, the Economic Metrics That Matter for Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 14. Sunrise is 7:16 AM and sunset 4:57 PM for 9h 40m 23s of daytime. The moon is waning gibbous with 70.8% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1957, American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying…
Daily Bread, WISGOP
Daily Bread for 1.22.22: Wile E. Coyote Level Genius Rep. Elijah Behnke Calls for Election Cheating in Video
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of 24. Sunrise is 7:15 AM and sunset 4:55 PM for 9h 38m 18s of daytime. The moon is waning gibbous with 79.6% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decisions in Roe…
Conspiracy Theories, Daily Bread, Elections, Mendacity, WISGOP
Daily Bread for 12.14.21: State Sen. Kathy Bernier Speaks Honestly
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 46. Sunrise is 7:18 AM and sunset 4:21 PM for 9h 03m 03s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 81.9% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater School Board’s Policy Review Committee meets at 9 AM, and the Fire Department…
Daily Bread, Elections, Law, Republicans, WISGOP
Daily Bread for 11.19.21: The WISGOP Push to Take Over the State’s Elections
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 39. Sunrise is 6:53 AM and sunset 4:27 PM for 9h 34m 38s of daytime. The moon is full with all of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1863, Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery…
Daily Bread, Elections, Fair Maps, Gerrymandering, WISGOP
Daily Bread for 9.28.21: Millions Then, Only a Couple of Dozen Now
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 78. Sunrise is 6:50 AM and sunset 6:40 PM for 11h 50m 03s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 55.8% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater Finance Committee meets at 4:30 PM. On this day in 1066, William the Conqueror lands in…
Daily Bread, Legislature, Litigation, Public Health, UW Madison, UW System, Vaccines, WISGOP
Daily Bread for 9.4.21: Nass Digs In
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
Politics, Public Health, Rhetoric, Trumpism, UW System, Vaccines, WISGOP
Steve Nass: Troll-King in Autumn
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
Bad Ideas, Corporate Welfare, Development, Foxconn, Marketing, Mendacity, Public Relations, Scott Walker, Special Interests, State Capitalism, State Government, WEDC, WISGOP, YMBFKM
Foxconn’s Venture Capital Fund
by JOHN ADAMS •
Bruce Murphy has a solid assessment of Foxconn’s much-touted (by Foxconn) venture capital fund in About That Foxconn Venture Capital Fund. It’s well worth reading in full. A few key points: Unfulfilled: Louis Woo of Foxconn had promised this venture fund for startup companies would naturally connect to Foxconn’s innovation centers in Eau Claire, Green Bay…
America, Ethics, Legislation, Liberty, Music, Politics, Wisconsin, WISGOP
The Party Demands Unity
by JOHN ADAMS •
One reads that WISGOP Bill Would Make It Illegal For Sports Venues to Skip National Anthem: It would be illegal for some sports venues to skip the national anthem before games under a new bill proposed by a Republican legislator. Stevens Point Republican Sen. Patrick Testin’s Star Spangled Banner Act, proposed Wednesday, would require the anthem…
Elections, Law, Legislation, Republicans, Voting Rights, Wisconsin, WISGOP
WISGOP Moves to Restrict Voting
by JOHN ADAMS •
Across America, Republicans are doing all they can to restrict voting access after Trump’s decisive loss in the presidential election. (Ceaseless lies won’t make up a 7-million-vote margin.) The WISGOP is no exception to this trend. Molly Beck and Patrick Marley report Republican lawmakers seek to overhaul voting in Wisconsin, including new rules for absentee…
Bad Ideas, Gerrymandering, Legislation, Legislature, WISGOP
WISGOP Legislation Would Gerrymander Wisconsin’s Electoral Votes
by JOHN ADAMS •
A WISGOP legislator, Rep. Gary Tauchen, has drafted a bill to award Wisconsin’s electoral votes by congressional district, thereby maximizing the importance of gerrymandering. Melanie Conklin writes that GOP has bill to reallocate Wisconsin’s electoral votes by congressional district: And that is what a new bill authored by Rep. Gary Tauchen (R-Bonduel) would do. It…
Gerrymandering, Politics, Sen. Ron Johnson, Trumpism, Wisconsin, WISGOP
Probable Wisconsin Political Issues for 2021
by JOHN ADAMS •
Although one can confidently doubt that ‘everything changes’ after the pandemic, there are in any year prominent political issues. Some are national, some statewide, some local. One can guess correctly that the new year will entertain at least three notable statewide issues, each summarized below. These are statewide issues that will reach deep into every…