Good morning.
Friday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 77. Sunrise is 5:32 and sunset is 8:11 for 14 hours 29 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 2.4 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1940, Richard and Maurice McDonald open the first McDonald’s restaurant.
The state tax and spending bill crafted between three soon-to-be-retired gentlemen (Evers, Vos, LeMahieu) failed in the Wisconsin Senate. The bill was bipartisan in name only. (As for headlines describing the proposal, descriptions of the bill were confused and contradictory. See ‘Bipartisan’ Has Lost Meaning as a Useful Term.)
Why not vote for the deal? Almost everyone who plans to be in office after January expects a better deal under his or her stewardship. Assembly WisDems leader Greta Neubauer is ‘optimistic’ about her party’s trifecta control of state government next year, Senate Minority Leader Dianne Hesselbein assumes she’ll be Majority Leader Hesselbein next year, all the WisDems running for governor except one opposed the bill, and WISGOP gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany opposed it.
They’re not all going to get what they want after November, but almost everyone in opposition to the bill has a better chance of getting their way in January than the men who won’t even be in office in January.
Wisconsin is, to use an expression that many others over-use, moving on.
In state government, what mattered yesterday matters less than what you do today and what you will do tomorrow.
It takes little effort for people to leave the past behind. Times change quickly in a dynamic, innovative, even restless and impatient culture like America’s.
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Upcoming posts (in no decided order): Claims of Legacy, a Whitewater Comparative Analysis, Whitewater’s Workforce, and Outcome-Driven Argumentation.
Perseverance rover captures new panorama on Mars: