Good morning.
Sunday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of thirty-six, with snowfall in the afternoon and evening. Sunrise is 7:00 AM and sunset 4:24 PM, for 9h 24m 12s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 92.4% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the seven hundred forty-sixth day.
On this day in 1863, Wisconsin units are victorious at the Battle of Missionary Ridge at Chattanooga, Tennessee:
Fourteen Wisconsin units — seven Wisconsin Infantry regiments and seven Wisconsin Light Artillery batteries — participated in breaking the siege at Chattanooga.
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Peter Slevin reports Anti-Trump protests gave way to local fervor that helped turn Wisconsin back to blue:
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — Two years ago, before Donald Trump was elected, Anna Rybicki would not have been seated at the dining room table at her home on Rust Street, devising a school reform strategy with five allies. She would not have attended a three-day community organizing workshop or made a pitch to the school board.
“It has changed my life, him getting elected,” said Rybicki, 39, a lawyer who has been a stay-at-home mother since 2011. “I never cried; I mobilized. That’s what felt good to me. I went to every meeting of everything.”
Since the eruption of nationwide anti-Trump protests in January 2017, a central question has been whether the energy would persist. The signs in Wisconsin so far have been positive for Democrats: They unexpectedly won a state Supreme Court race in April and flipped a reliably Republican state Senate seat in June. On Nov. 6, they defeated GOP Gov. Scott Walker for the first time in four tries. The statewide turnout percentage was among the highest in the country.
Rich Kremer reports CWD spreads on deer and elk farms as Wisconsin’s control efforts stumble:
Since 2013, when the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) began to let some captive deer facilities with infected animals continue operating, additional cases of CWD have developed within those facilities, according to interviews and documents obtained under the state’s Open Records Law.
Anna Newtsova writes Inside the Mystery of the Dead Russian Spy Chief:
“After Korobov did not meet with Putin at the hundredth anniversary ceremony, I became curious what was going on with the head of GRU,” Kanev told The Daily Beast. The general must have been under a lot of pressure, since his agency was accused of “complete incompetence” and “boundless sloppiness,”
Jim Tankersley reports A Winter-Coat Heavyweight Gives Trump’s Trade War the Cold Shoulder:
Mr. Trump’s use of tariffs as a cudgel to revitalize manufacturing in the United States is forcing changes across large multinational companies, though they may not always be the changes the president seeks. Harley-Davidson and Micron are moving production to factories in Europe or parts of Asia, while other companies have put off expansion plans amid trade uncertainty.
Trying Chicken Cakes at Macao’s Michelin-Recommended Bakery: