Good morning, Whitewater
There are two public meetings scheduled today in the City of Whitewater: the CDA Board of Directors meets this afternoon, at 3:30 p.m. in the municipal building. The agenda is available online.
Later tonight, at 6 p.m., there is a meeting of the Planning Commission, also in the municipal building. The agenda for that meeting is online at the Whitewater website. (Earlier, I had listed the wrong time and date for the event. To every planner, in our city and beyond, in all the wide world, I extend my apologies.)
The National Weather Service predicts a high of only 9 degrees, with high winds. The Farmers’ Almanac concludes a four-day series predicting fair weather, turning colder. This would be that colder, so to speak.
Last week’s better prediction: NWS.
In our schools today, there is a Middle School choir concert at 7 PM in the high school auditorium.
(Last week I suggested — very subtly and sweetly, really — if the students at Washington School would consider singing Oingo Boingo’s Capitalism. Sadly, my musical recommendation was left unadopted. There’s still time for cooler and more receptive heads to prevail, at tonight’s concert — I am an optimist at heart.)
In Wisconsin history for this day, from the Wisconsin Historical Society, in 1847, our state’s Second Constitutional Convention Convenes.
On this date the first draft of the Wisconsin Constitution was rejected in 1846. As a result, Wisconsin representatives met again to draft a new constitution in 1847. New delegates were invited, and only five delegates attended both conventions. The second convention used the failed 1846 constitution as a springboard for their own, but left out controversial issues such as banking and property rights for women that the first constitution attempted to address. The second constitution included a proposal to let the people of Wisconsin vote on a referendum designed to approve black suffrage.
Wisconsin’s current constitution may be found online.