Good morning.
For Whitewater, a chance of flurries today with a high of thirty-three; for Madison, that same chance, but a predicted high of thirty-one.
In Whitewater, Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM.
It’s Charles Dickens’s birthday, and Google celebrates with a doodle:
For Google’s puzzle today, some geography: “What single state is home to all of the following U.S. cities: Madrid, Toronto, Cincinnati, Denver, Hartford, and Norway?”
In Wisconsin history, from the Wisconsin Historical Society, another birthday:
On this date, U.S. Senator Herb Kohl was born in Milwaukee. Kohl received a BA in Business Administration from UW-Madison in 1956 and an MBA from Harvard in 1958. A businessman, president of an investment company, owner of a profesional basketball team, and former president of a business corporation, Kohl also served in the Army Reserve from 1958-1964. A Democrat, he was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1988 and reelected in 1994, 2000 and 2006. [Source: Wisconsin Blue Book 1997-98]