Good morning. 
Thursday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of twenty-eight. Sunrise is 6:32 AM and sunset 5:42 PM, for 11h 09m 11s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 13.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand two hundred sixth day.
The Whitewater Community Development Authority meets at 5:30 PM.
On this day in 1967, a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal kills all three Apollo 1 crew members—Command Pilot Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B. Chaffee—and destroys their command module.
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Briana Reilly reports Several Wisconsin counties take initiative to test wells for contamination:
Local officials across Wisconsin are gearing up to test wells this year as they seek to gather more data about potential contaminants and how groundwater quality may have changed over time.
The testing comes in the wake of Gov. Tony Evers’ labeling of 2019 as “The Year of Clean Drinking Water” and a series of public hearings around the state held by the Water Quality Task Force that resulted in more than a dozen bills aiming to curb contamination and bolster conservation efforts.
Amid the state-level push, three southwestern counties have banded together to fund the area’s first expansive groundwater survey called the Driftless Area Water Study, while at least four others across the state are working independently on their own efforts.
Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith write How to Reform the Pardon Power:
President Trump is reportedly “obsessed” with the pardon power, which he apparently understands to be the unbounded constitutional authority to dispense forgiveness as he pleases. In his recent rash of 11 pardons and commutations, Trump dispensed with the Department of Justice process for vetting pardon applications and relied instead on the advice of friends and allies, and on his own judgments about redressing “unfairness.” He has also argued he has an “absolute right to PARDON myself” (while at the same time denying the need to do so). Trump revels in the belief that his pardon and commutation decisions are his alone: His critics might not like his choices, but they have to live with them.
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So, it appears, lawmakers unhappy with grants of clemency are left to voice dissatisfaction and to press the president to explain. And in the past, that is what they have done. After pardoning Richard Nixon, President Gerald Ford made an extraordinary appearance on the Hill to defend his decision. The Senate and House inquired into Bill Clinton’s history of controversial pardons and, in some cases, voted resolutions of bipartisan disapproval. But, barring a constitutional amendment, many people appear to believe that Congress can do nothing more to regulate the president’s “absolute” pardon power.
We disagree. As we discuss in detail in a forthcoming book on institutional reforms of the presidency, there are limits Congress may and should impose on at least some exercises of the pardon power. And by prescribing those limits, the legislature can prevent or deter the most egregious abuses, while encouraging future presidents to adhere more closely to norms of process and restraint.
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