Good morning.
Monday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 40. Sunrise is 7:25 and sunset is 4:35 for 9 hours 10 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 93.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1972, President Nixon announces the Space Shuttle program.
Why do local officials violate the law? There are three main reasons.
First, they are wholly ignorant of the law. Second, they misunderstand the law. Third, they have an interest they place above the law.
The first is corrected easily, the second with more difficulty, and the third only with great effort. That great effort will not rest on community sentiment; officials who have placed an interest above the law will not yield to community persuasion as they’ve already rejected opinions other than their own (or, more precisely, rejected opinions beyond the faction that they view as patrons and protectors).
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