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Daily Bread for 1.7.26: What Makes a Good Local Candidate?

Good morning.

Wednesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 41. Sunrise is 7:25 and sunset is 4:37 for 9 hours 12 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 78.8 percent of its visible disk illuminated.

Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM.

On this day in 1927, the first transatlantic commercial telephone service is established from New York City to London.


What makes a good local candidate, in the fullest meaning of the word good?

I’d suggest the precepts of a venerable, ancient religion: good thoughts, good words, good deeds.

Expressed more fully, and described in secular political terms: good ideas, good communication, and good results.

I’d add one more: the candidate is his or her own person, free from a role as operative or tool of special interest machinations and manipulations. See The Special-Interest Hierarchy of a Small Town.


Parisians ski and sled down a snowy Montmartre slope:

Snow turned Paris into a magical sight on Monday, drawing crowds to enjoy winter sports and build snowpeople near the Sacré Coeur in the north of the city.

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