Good morning. 
Monday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of fifty-two. Sunrise is 7:14 AM and sunset 6:55 PM, for 11h 40m 54s of daytime. The moon is full with 99.9% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand two hundred seventeenth day.
Whitewater’s Planning Commission meets at 6 PM.
On this day in 1954, CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, “A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy.”
Excerpt – Murrow on McCarthy —
Recommended for reading in full —
Margaret Sullivan writes The media is blowing its chance to head off an Election Day debacle:
Political reporters scrutinize every public-opinion poll as if it were the I Ching. Cable pundits blather about the potential impact of the candidates’ latest gaffes, despite how notoriously bad they are at such prognostications.
What they are not obsessed with, sadly, is the very core of Election Day: voting itself.
“The media has a huge role to play in helping things to go well,” said Richard Hasen, a law professor at the University of California at Irvine and the author of “Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust and the Threat to American Democracy.”
But, Hasen said, that has to happen now, not in September or October when it’s too late.
If journalists turn their searchlights on potential problems, Hasen told me, they can help prevent “situations where losers don’t accept the results as legitimate.”
They can do this by reporting stories that put pressure on local and state officials to take remedial action.
There’s no shortage of potential targets for journalists: malfunctioning equipment, insufficient or poorly run polling places, unfair or discriminatory voter registration, and flawed methods of doing recounts.
Many experts are convinced that the gold-standard method for casting votes is the old-fashioned hand-marked paper ballot, which Hasen calls “the least hackable and the most audit-able.” But, as Sue Halpern wrote in the New Yorker last year, vendors of fancy new voting systems have been aggressive in their efforts to sell municipalities on their frequently opaque products.
David Knowles reports Trump’s mental state — not Biden’s — is the real concern, mental health professionals say:
Mental health professionals who have expressed concern over what they see as Donald Trump’s declining faculties say that similar fears about Joe Biden’s are overblown.
“A few stumbled words are not the same as the extreme danger that result from a list of signs that Donald Trump has shown,” Bandy Lee, a psychiatrist on the faculty at the Yale School of Medicine, told Yahoo News, “and none of them apply to Joe Biden.”
Lee edited a collection of essays written by 27 mental health professionals titled “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” which detailed what the authors see as the risks posed by a leader who they regard as mentally and emotionally unfit for the most powerful office in the world.
Yet since Biden’s reemergence as a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, Lee has been flooded by requests to assess the former vice president’s string of stumbles in public appearances. In response, she published a piece on Medium correcting what she sees as the false equivalence between Trump’s “mental instability” and Biden’s occasional gaffes.
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Biden “digresses and gets tangential, that’s not cognitive decline,” Lynne Meyer, a California psychologist told Yahoo News. “Trump’s cognitive decline or problems are that he doesn’t even seem to have comprehension of reality. That’s what it looks like.”