Good morning, Whitewater
There are no public meetings scheduled in the City of Whitewater, today.
The National Weather Service predicts that today will bring increasing snow with a high of 33 degrees. The Farmers’ Almanac predicts that today will be “cold and dry.”
Yesterday’s better prediction: About even — some clouds, some sun, both forecasts right for parts of the day.
In our schools today, at 7:00 p.m., there is a scheduled FFA meeting at the high school.
To those who wrote, expressing dislike of my suggestion of re-naming Lakeview School for Paine, Hayek, or another notable advocate of liberty, I’ll admit that you’re right — my suggestion was not funny at all. It was not wholly meant to be. I thought it was a good idea.
In fact, after a day’s reflection, I think it’s an idea that has aged well. To the correspondent who suggested Jefferson or George Mason, you’re right — they were advocates of liberty, but slaveholding makes them different from others on my original list, I think. To the correspondent who suggested seeing if someone named Lakeview already has a storied career as an advocate of freedom, well, that’s possible, too. I’m just not aware of that particular legacy.
In Wisconsin history today, from the Wisconsin Historical Society, perhaps another sad day in our history, but fortunately not so sad as McCarthy’s legacy — in 1947, the First TV Station in Wisconsin Established: “On this date the first TV station in Wisconsin, WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee, was established. The seventeenth television station in the country, WTMJ-TV was the first in the Midwest.”
Seventeenth in America, but first in the Midwest? So we had television before Chicago? Now, if we could only place ahead of Chicago in the NL Central.