Good morning. 
Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of forty-two. Sunrise is 6:57 AM and sunset 4:25 PM, for 9h 28m 06s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 12.3% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand one hundred tenth day.
On this day in 1924, astronomer Edwin Hubble publishes in the New York Times his then-controversial, but now-confirmed, discovery that the Andromeda ‘nebula’ is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way. Before his work, the accepted view was that the universe extended no farther than the Milky Way.
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Yesterday: Rob Mentzer reports Investigators Lock Down Rhinelander City Hall In Public Misconduct Case. Today: Natalie Brophy reports Rhinelander administrator Dan Guild subject of felony investigation:
RHINELANDER – City Administrator Daniel Guild was the primary subject of two search warrants executed Thursday at Rhinelander City Hall as part of an investigation into tampering with public records and misconduct in office.
The search is part of an investigation by the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office, assisted by the Price County Sheriff’s Office, into allegations that Guild “engaged in various acts including failure to release public records in response to requests by the media and law enforcement, as well as altering email content to present it as the original,” according to search warrants filed in Oneida County Court.
Authorities were looking for emails between Guild and staff from the Wisconsin League of Municipalities, as well as emails with city council members that mention altered emails, walking quorums or open meeting violations, documents state. Law enforcement was also looking for the disciplinary record for the city’s former director of public works, Tim Kingman.
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This is not the first time Guild has come under public scrutiny. He was previously the city administrator in Weston, but resigned in July 2018 following a 30-day suspension for breaching his employment contract.
Margaret Sullivan writes The death knell for local newspapers? It’s perilously close:
Here’s some of what happened in the past few days.
Gannett and GateHouse, two major newspaper chains, finished their planned merger, and the combined company intends to cut the combined budget by at least $300 million. That will come on top of unending job losses over the past decade in the affected newsrooms of more than 500 papers.
The McClatchy newspaper group — parent of the Herald and Charlotte Observer — is so weighed down by debt and pension obligations that analysts think it is teetering on bankruptcy.
And the storied Chicago Tribune on Tuesday fell under the influence of Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund that has strip-mined the other important papers it owns, including the Denver Post and the Mercury News in San Jose.
(Key point: when Sullivan writes about local journalism, she’s writing about serious papers, not the mediocre publications one finds near Whitewater.)
If you’re a UW-Madison student, the robots are coming for you. And they’re bringing food: