Good morning.
Monday in Whitewater will see snow in the morning and a high of twenty-five. Sunrise is 7:12 AM and sunset 5:03 PM, for 9h 50m 43s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 43.7% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the eight hundred tenth day.
On this day in 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart shortly after liftoff, killing all seven members of the crew.
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Colten Bartholomew of the Lacrosse Tribune reports Tribune investigation: UW-Whitewater defensive schemes sent to UW-La Crosse football:
An email containing eight PowerPoint presentations that detail the Warhawks’ defensive principles, coverage rules and alignments against a number of opponents’ formations was sent to UW-L coach Mike Schmidt on Aug. 22 and sent from Schmidt to UW-L offensive coaches on Sept. 17.
The email containing these PowerPoint files was sent to the Tribune as part of an open records request into the reassignment and eventual resignation of former La Crosse offensive coordinator Luke Bengtson.
The five-times-forwarded email chain started with craigsmith0306@gmail.com — Craig Smith was the former offensive coordinator at UW-Whitewater, whose contract wasn’t renewed after the 2017 season. The Tribune confirmed it was the account of that Craig Smith via email.
The account emailed the PowerPoint documents to edmondsnelson@gmail.com, which forwarded it to NEdmonds@dbq.edu, the University of Dubuque account of Nelson Edmonds, the dean of student engagement and services and a former assistant coach at Whitewater. Edmonds forwarded it to the university email of Stan Zweifel, the Spartans football coach, who then forwarded it to Schmidt.
The Tribune confirmed that the PowerPoint documents were accurate and featured code words that pertained to Whitewater schemes this season.
Dubuque lost to Whitewater 38-6 in the season opener, and La Crosse fell 30-7 in the first WIAC game of the season.
Craig Gilbert writes Latest polling data point to major re-election challenges for Trump in Wisconsin:
In 10 Marquette polls since Trump took office, his approval rating has never topped 47 percent. The share of voters who disapprove of him has equaled or exceeded 50 percent in the past nine polls dating back to June 2017.
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Among Republicans, 58 percent said they would definitely vote for Trump, 22 percent said they would probably vote for Trump, 6 percent said they would probably vote for someone else and 10 percent said they would definitely vote for someone else. That is a party with a few cracks in it. Fewer than six in 10 GOP voters say they are certain they would support the Trump in the next election.
Among Democrats, there isn’t much doubt: None said they would definitely vote for Trump, 1 percent said they would probably vote for Trump, 4 percent said they would probably vote for someone else and 95 percent said they would definitely vote for someone else.
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The intensity of public opinion matters a lot in politics and it is not on Trump’s side: 30 percent of Wisconsin voters “strongly” approve of him and 46 percent “strongly” disapprove.