Good morning.
Sunday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 68. Sunrise is 7:05 and sunset is 6:16, for 11 hours 12 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 62.7 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1984, Japan’s former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from the Lockheed Corporation, and is sentenced to four years in jail:
While his appeal lingered in the Court’s docket, Tanaka’s medical condition deteriorated. He announced his retirement from politics in October 1989, at the age of 71, in an announcement made by his son-in-law Naoki Tanaka. The announcement ended his 42-year career in politics; the remnants of his faction, now led by former Prime Minister Takeshita, remained the most powerful bloc within the LDP at the time of his retirement. In 1993, a number of members of his faction broke away from the LDP to form part of an Eight-party Alliance government under Morihiro Hosokawa.
Tanaka was later diagnosed with diabetes, and died of pneumonia at Keio University Hospital at 2:04 p.m. on 16 December 1993. [Citations omitted]
Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District stretches along the southeastern border between Wisconsin and Illinois, with most of the City of Whitewater within the district. A portion of the city, north of Lauderdale Drive, is in the 5th Congressional District.
Today, these are the boundaries of the 1st District. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ordered briefs on one of the complaints that requests the appointment of a three-judge panel to consider the plaintiffs’ claims that the state’s congressional districts are unlawfully gerrymandered and should be redrawn before the 2026 election. That complaint is Elizabeth Bothfeld et al. v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, No. 2025CV002432 (Wis. Cir. Ct. Dane Cnty. July 21, 2025).
These are the candidates now running for Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District:
Bryan Steil (R, Incumbent, Janesville)
Connor Walleck (R, Salem)
Miguel Aranda (D, Whitewater)
Mitchell Berman (D, Raymond)
Randy Bryce (D, Caledonia)
Enrique Casiano (D, Janesville)
Gage Stills (D, Racine)
Adam Follmer (Independent, St. Francis)
The primary is August 11, 2026, and the general election November 3, 2026.
Parthenon in Greece is free of scaffolding for first time in decades: