Good morning.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of twenty. Sunrise is 6:34 AM and sunset 5:41 PM, for 11h 07m 00s of daytime. The moon is in its third quarter with 49.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the eight hundred thirty-ninth day.
Whitewater’s Seed Capital Screening Committee meets at 4:30 PM.
On this day in 1815, French dictator Napoleon escapes exile on Elba.
Recommended for reading in full:
Molly Beck reports Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers pulls back Wisconsin troops from the U.S. border:
Evers said he is withdrawing the 112 Wisconsin National Guard soldiers and airmen from Arizona because “there is simply not ample evidence to support the president’s contention that there exists a national security crisis at our southwestern border.”
“Therefore, there is no justification for the ongoing presence of Wisconsin National Guard personnel at the border,” Evers said. “I cannot support keeping our brave service men and women away from their families without a clear need or purpose that would actively benefit the people of Wisconsin or our nation.”
Evers said border security is “the responsibility of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.
Steve Coll reports The Jail Health-Care Crisis (“The opioid epidemic and other public-health emergencies are being aggravated by failings in the criminal justice system”):
There are more than three thousand jails in the United States, usually run by sheriffs and county offices, which house some seven hundred thousand people. They are typically waiting to make bail—or, if they can’t, to go to trial or enter a plea—or are serving short sentences. Barr is right about the crisis of chronic health conditions among them. According to a study released in 2017 by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, nearly half the people held in jails suffer from some kind of mental illness, and more than a quarter have a severe condition, such as bipolar disorder. The same year, the bureau reported that about two-thirds of sentenced jail inmates suffer from drug addiction or dependency; that number was based on data from 2007-09, so it does not take into account the recent catastrophic rise of opioid addiction. That epidemic and other public-health emergencies, in jails across the country, are being aggravated by failings in the criminal-justice system.
James Rowen describes The Farewell Tour of Scott Walker:
Walker insists to the State Journal that Foxconn can revive manufacturing in the Midwest, adding “It’s something, I tell the president all the time.” He seems embarrassingly oblivious to his tacit admission that he indeed failed to meet his promise of creating 250,000 new jobs in four or five or six or eight years in office, even though he had full control of the government, budgets, and free media on talk radio and advocacy sites to control the outcome.
If Walker had been an effective governor and manufacturing leader for eight years, why would he be talking now about reviving manufacturing, not extending and burnishing it, let alone bringing up Foxconn – – the very manufacturing ‘deal’ whose death is burying the last molecules of Walker’s legacy?