Good morning. 
Friday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 48. Sunrise is 6:57 AM and sunset 7:06 PM, for 12h 09m 28s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 30% of its visible disk illuminated.
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On this day in 1918, Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
Elizabeth Beyer reports State superintendent candidate used district email during work hours to set up private business:
State Superintendent candidate Deborah Kerr solicited clients and organized branding for her private consulting business through her public school district email address, including several times during work hours, prior to her retirement as Brown Deer School District superintendent last year.
Emails obtained by the Wisconsin State Journal show Kerr used her district email address during work time to set up her private consulting firm, Lead Greatly, LLC, on multiple different occasions from March to July 2020.
She used her district email to schedule meetings with the Danielson Group, a Chicago-based education company, about their teaching framework, often replying to messages between the district’s 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday work hours.
Records show Kerr also:
- Spent time during work hours discussing branding for Lead Greatly with her administrative assistant, who was helping Kerr with graphic design, through her district email;
- Pitched her consulting firm to superintendents in Fox Point Bayside School District and Maple Dale-Indian Hill School District while arranging meetings to discuss projects; and
- Directed a project manager with the Consortium for School Networking to Lead Greatly in her final days as superintendent of Brown Deer.
Nico Hines reports Veselnitskaya’s Trump Tower Coverup Linked to Secret Russian Chemical Weapons Program:
A company newly sanctioned by the U.S. over Alexei Navalny’s poisoning attack is tied to the money-laundering network that Natalia Veselnitskaya tried to cover up at the infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting, according to financial records obtained by The Daily Beast.
Now we know why Vladimir Putin was so desperate to play down the international corruption probes that began when Sergei Magnitsky uncovered a $230 million fraud on the Russian people. For the first time, that dark-money network can be linked to the murderous chemical-weapons program run by Russia’s notorious intelligence services.
After exposing the massive theft of state money, Magnitsky ended up dead in a Russian prison cell. Legislation in his name has been enacted all over the world by governments seeking to clamp down on corruption, including the U.S.’s Magnitsky Act. Despite the interventions of Veselnitskaya—a Russian lawyer who was sent to the U.S. to persuade the Trump campaign to overturn the law—investigations tracing that stolen money continue to expose an international web of bank accounts linked to alleged wrongdoing.
Adam Zagoria reports What to Watch in the First Weekend of the Men’s N.C.A.A. Tournament:
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The 2021 N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament tipped off Thursday with the play-in games from Indiana. They included a late-night matchup of the blue bloods U.C.L.A. and Michigan State, winners of a combined 13 national championships, but the action tips off in earnest on Friday.
Beginning at 12:15 p.m. Eastern time, eight games will take place Friday afternoon, followed by eight more in the evening. All the games are being played in Indiana because of the pandemic. Sixteen more games will be played Saturday. Four national television networks — TBS, CBS, TNT and TruTV — will carry the action.
The second-round games this year will occur on Sunday and Monday (feel free to call in sick on Monday), and by Monday night, the round of 16 will be set.
Spiral galaxy Messier 106 in amazing view snapped by Mayall Telescope: