Good morning.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 45. Sunrise is 6:27 and sunset is 5:47 for 11 hours 20 minutes of daytime. The moon is full with 100 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Alcohol Licensing Committee meets at 5:30 PM, and the Whitewater Common Council at 6 PM.
On this day in 1969, NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
For those who are gamblers, here’s a sure bet — tribes and gambling companies will clash over a bill legalizing online sports betting in Wisconsin:
The legislation would allow Wisconsinites to place a sports bet via a cell phone or computer if the server used to host the wager is physically located on the state’s federally recognized tribal lands. Currently, sports betting is only legal at tribal casinos in Wisconsin.
If the bill becomes law, Wisconsin tribes interested in offering online sports betting “would need to renegotiate” their gaming compacts with the state. And those compacts would need to be approved by the federal government, according to testimony from Sen. Howard L. Marklein, R-Spring Green.
The bill passed the state Assembly on a voice vote without debate last month. It’s unclear if the bill will receive a vote in the state Senate.
The proposal is supported by several Wisconsin tribes, including the Forest County Potawatomi and the Ho-Chunk Nation. But it’s opposed by some of the biggest names in the online sports betting industry, like DraftKings, FanDuel and BetMGM because of the power it would give tribes over online gambling in the state.
See Joe Schulz, Tribes, gambling companies at odds over bill legalizing online sports betting in Wisconsin, Wisconsin Public Radio, March 3, 2026.
It’s the safest bet on Earth that various competing gambling interests will clash over any legislation involving gambling. These competing interests will do whatever they can to craft the legislation their way.
They will use the Legislature as their trough, and they will demand their preferred flavor of slop.
These companies already have on retainer the laborers they need: no one — no one — mixes slop like a lobbyist.
Everyday life plus constant decisions equals a need for math: