Good morning. 
Monday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of forty-three. Sunrise is 7:02 AM and sunset 7:03 PM, for 12h 01m 23s of daytime. The moon is in its third quarter with 49% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand two hundred twenty-fourth day.
Whitewater’s Community Involvement & Cable TV Commission is scheduled to meet at 5 PM. (Now canceled)
On this day in 1987, Milwaukee forms a committee to study whether to renovate County Stadium or build a new ballpark.
Recommended for reading in full —
Robert J. Samuelson writes of The politics of trust — and mistrust:
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first inaugural address, March 4, 1933
When Roosevelt uttered these famous words, the nation was grappling with more than fear. For all intents and purposes, the economy had shut down. Roughly a quarter of the labor force was out of work. Thousands of the nation’s banks were shut after repeated panics. Hardly anyone knew which were solvent and which weren’t. Roosevelt had to convince Americans that he could restore confidence in a way that would revive the economy.
To this end, he invented fireside radio chats. “My friends, I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking,” he began on March 12, 1933. He rebuilt trust between the governed and the governors. Roosevelt could close worthless banks, in part because he was ruthlessly honest about the outlook. “Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment,” he said.
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But instead of rising to the occasion, Trump has slumped. He has only belatedly — and apparently reluctantly — concluded that the virus can’t be fooled and that the effort to do so has made matters worse, not better. Initially, he played down the threat posed by the virus, and when that seemed contradicted by the facts, he sought to shift blame to former president Barack Obama.
Trump’s “truths” are all politically expedient, undermining confidence. As my colleague Catherine Rampell has correctly argued, once you acquire a reputation for distortion and falsehood, it follows you everywhere.
Scott Girard and Abigail Becker report ‘It’s time to be aggressive’: Dane County closes schools, bans large gatherings, caps restaurant capacity:
All Dane County public schools are closed immediately to slow the spread of COVID-19, local officials announced Sunday.
“Schools play a crucial role in providing nutrition and other critical services to students, but they also pose a risk to children and staff with underlying health conditions,” Public Health Madison and Dane County director Janel Heinrich said at a Sunday press conference. “We have been in contact with the schools for a number of weeks now and are at the point where we want to make an aggressive decision, so that we don’t reach the point of other communities where they have community spread.”