Good morning.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 54. Sunrise is 7:15 and sunset is 6:55 for 11 hours 40 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 58.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
The Whitewater School Board’s Calendar Committee meets at 4 PM. Whitewater’s Public Works Committee meets at 5:15 PM.
On this day in 2006, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
A change of the majority makes time in the minority less attractive:
Ziegler’s announcement comes about a month ahead of this year’s state Supreme Court race, which is open following the decision of her fellow conservative colleague, Justice Rebecca Bradley, to not seek reelection this year.
Appeals court judge and former Democratic state Assembly member Chris Taylor and Appeals Court Judge Maria Lazar, a conservative, will face each other next month for that seat.
The retirements of the two conservative justices come after liberals won the majority on the Court in 2023 and held it in last year’s race.
Recent Supreme Court elections in Wisconsin have brought national attention and record spending for the nominally nonpartisan seats with the ideological balance of the Court at stake. The 2026 Supreme Court race has not received as much attention or spending with the liberal majority assured regardless of the outcome. A victory for Taylor next month would increase the number of liberal justices on the Court, locking in a 5-2 liberal majority until 2030.
When Ziegler’s seat is up in 2027, liberals will likely look to extend their majority while conservatives will be looking to claw back some ground.
See Baylor Spears, Justice Annette Ziegler won’t run for a third term on Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2027, Wisconsin Examiner, March 9, 2026.
Easy prediction for next month’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election: Chris Taylor defeats Maria Lazar. The race is quiet because Lazar’s campaign is going nowhere. See Bill Lueders, The unusually quiet race for Wisconsin Supreme Court, Isthmus, March 5, 2026.
Fox makes an appearance for the camera in Lake Tahoe Basin:
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