Good morning, Whitewater.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of thirty-four. Sunrise is 7:14 AM and sunset 4:20 PM for 9h 06m 27s. The moon is a waning gibbous with 91% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Parks & Rec Board is scheduled to meet at 5:30 PM this afternoon.
On this day in 2000, a 5-4 vote in Bush v. Gore halts vote counting, and likely dooms Vice President Al Gore’s election hopes:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 — In a sudden and devastating blow to Vice President Al Gore’s presidential hopes, the United States Supreme Court voted 5 to 4 today to stop the vote counting that had begun hours earlier in Florida. The court set Monday morning for arguments on Gov. George W. Bush’s appeal of the Florida Supreme Court ruling that ordered manual recounts across the state of ballots that initially showed no vote for president.
With the clock ticking inexorably toward a Dec. 12 deadline for certifying electors, the Supreme Court’s order, issued shortly before 3 p.m., could have the effect of erasing the Democrat’s chances that the Florida Supreme Court had so dramatically revived barely 24 hours earlier with its 4-to-3 ruling.
Even if by some chance the United States Supreme Court eventually rules in the vice president’s favor, the ruling could come too late. While not conceding ultimate defeat, David Boies, Mr. Gore’s chief lawyer, said today that “if we had world enough and time,” a short-term stay would make little difference, but that there was now a “very serious issue” as to whether the vote counting could be finished in time even if the court’s eventual ruling allowed it to resume.
On this day in 1844, Milwaukee gets a daily:
1844 – Milwaukee’s First Daily Newspaper Published
On this date Milwaukee’s first daily newspaper, The Daily Sentinel, was published. David M. Keeler served and manager and C.L. MacArthur was the editor. [Source: History of Milwaukee, Vol. II, p.49]
Google-a-Day asks about football:
What NFL player (Redskins and Vikings) held onto his record as the all-time interception leader until he retired?