Good morning. 
Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy, with morning snow, and a high of thirty-four. Sunrise is 7:17 AM and sunset 4:56 PM, for 9h 39m 18s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 2% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand one hundred seventy-first day.
Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets at 5:30 PM.
On this day in 1941, Charles Lindbergh testifies before Congress and recommends a neutrality pact between the United Staes and Nazi Germany. One reads: “President Franklin Roosevelt publicly decried Lindbergh’s views as those of a “defeatist and appeaser,” comparing him to U.S. Rep. Clement L. Vallandigham, who had led the “Copperhead” movement that had opposed the American Civil War. Lindbergh promptly resigned his commission as a colonel in the U.S. Army Air Corps, writing that he saw “no honorable alternative” given that Roosevelt had publicly questioned his loyalty.” (Roosevelt was right.)
Recommended for reading in full —
Laurel White reports Governor Uses State Of The State Speech To Call Special Legislative Session On Wisconsin’s Dairy Crisis:
Gov. Tony Evers used his second State of the State address Wednesday evening to call lawmakers into a special session to address Wisconsin’s dairy crisis.
Wisconsin lost 10 percent of its dairy farms in 2019, breaking the previous year’s record high.
“We’ve heard people who’ve said there’s no place for small farms anymore, they ought to go big or bust. Well, they’re wrong,” Evers said, referencing comments made by U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue during a visit to Wisconsin in October. “They don’t know Wisconsin.”
Evers said he’s calling in lawmakers next week to take up “legislation to invest in our farmers, agricultural industries and our rural communities.”
The governor has previously called a special session on gun laws in Wisconsin, which GOP lawmakers gaveled in and adjourned without taking action.
See also How Walker, Trump Hurt Dairy Industry (‘Their policies helped fuel a dairy crisis’).
David Abel reports Trump’s EPA is said to cut scientists out of new water policy that threatens New England wetlands:
With the Trump administration poised to roll back key protections for much of the nation’s wetlands, scientists at the US Environmental Protection Agency are accusing the agency’s political appointees of ignoring their advice and barring them from shaping sweeping new guidelines, violating the agency’s longstanding policies.
One scientistwas so distraught that the agency veteran started to cry while explaining how EPA administrators have cut specialists out of the process of crafting rules that prevent development and pollution near streams, tidal waters, and ponds.
“This has been a very painful time to work for the agency,” the scientist said in a recent interview, speaking on condition of anonymity because of fear of reprisal. “We’re being asked to do things that most of us feel is the antithesis of what we’ve been trying to do, and, in some cases, undo things that we’ve worked very hard to accomplish.”
(‘Fear of reprisal’: when one considers how this federal administration acts, it’s a reasonable concern for these scientists.)