Good morning.
A bit of snow today — less than an inch — is in store for Whitewater on a day with a high of thirty-three. In Butte, Montana, there’s just a slight chance of snow, with a high temperature of thirty-five.
Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets tonight at 6 PM, and the Library Board meets at 6:30 PM.
The Wisconsin Historical Society notes a long-ago problem, with a bad solution, from this day in 1935:
On this date, to stop gasoline price wars, the state of Wisconsin established a minimum price of 16 cents per gallon for gasoline. [Source: Janesville Gazette]
Price competition was an overall good, no matter how much a few might have thought otherwise. Thinking otherwise matters little; manipulating gas prices through state intervention during a depression matters much more.
Google’s puzzle for today asks a question about an English monarch: “Did more of this English king’s six marriages end with annulments or beheadings?”
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