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Daily Bread for 10.21.19

Good morning.

Monday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of sixty-four.  Sunrise is 7:16 AM and sunset 6:02 PM, for 10h 46m 23s of daytime.  The moon is in its third quarter with 51% of its visible disk illuminated.

Today is the one thousand seventy-seventh day.

The Whitewater Unified District School Board meets at 6 PM, going into closed session “pursuant to Wis. Stat. 19.85(1)(c) for the purpose of interviewing and considering potential candidates, compensation ranges, and term of employment for Interim District Administrator position; when closed session ends, the meeting will end (Action Item).”

Whitewater’s Library Board meets at 6:30 PM.

On this day in 1805, at the Battle of Trafalgar, “twenty-seven British ships of the line led by Admiral Lord Nelson aboard HMS Victory defeated thirty-three French and Spanish ships of the line under French Admiral Villeneuve….The Franco-Spanish fleet lost twenty-two ships, and the British lost none.”

Recommended for reading in full:

Heather Vogell reports Never-Before-Seen Trump Tax Documents Show Major Inconsistencies (‘The president’s businesses made themselves appear more profitable to lenders and less profitable to tax officials.’):

Documents obtained by ProPublica show stark differences in how Donald Trump’s businesses reported some expenses, profits and occupancy figures for two Manhattan buildings, giving a lender different figures than they provided to New York City tax authorities. The discrepancies made the buildings appear more profitable to the lender — and less profitable to the officials who set the buildings’ property tax.

For instance, Trump told the lender that he took in twice as much rent from one building as he reported to tax authorities during the same year, 2017. He also gave conflicting occupancy figures for one of his signature skyscrapers, located at 40 Wall Street.

Lenders like to see a rising occupancy level as a sign of what they call “leasing momentum.” Sure enough, the company told a lender that 40 Wall Street had been 58.9% leased on Dec. 31, 2012, and then rose to 95% a few years later. The company told tax officials the building was 81% rented as of Jan. 5, 2013.

(This story has received insufficient attention; conduct like this points to significant legal risk for Trump after he leaves office.)

Anita Kumar and Quint Forgey report Unpaid bills pile up in Trump rallies’ wake (‘Cities across the country say the president’s campaign has failed to reimburse them for law enforcement costs’):

In city after city, across the nation, Trump has failed to pay local officials who provide thousands of dollars’ worth of security assistance to the president’s campaign during his Make America Great Again rallies.

In total, at least 10 cities have complained that the campaign has not reimbursed them for services provided by local police and fire departments, totaling more than $840,000, according to a study by the Center for Public Integrity in June.

See Mayor of Minneapolis Jacob Frey: We saw Trump stiffing cities for his other rallies, so we told him to pay up.

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