Good morning. 
Saturday in Whitewater will see scattered afternoon showers and a high of 88. Sunrise is 5:24 AM and sunset 8:18 PM, for 14h 54m 10s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 78.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri.
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Todd Milewski reports UW says secrecy needed in AD search; open records advocate says there’s ‘no evidence’ to support that:
UW denied the Wisconsin State Journal’s public records request for minutes of the April 14, April 21 and May 4 meetings of the search committee established by Blank. The school argued there’s a greater public interest in it keeping a competitive position in job searches than in it making information public.
“Should materials regarding a search that is not completed be required to be released to the public, the foreseeable result would be an inability to attract applicants for athletic department searches specifically and university positions in general,” public records custodian Lisa Hull wrote in response to the State Journal’s request.
Open records advocates questioned UW’s reasoning, which the State Journal has appealed.
“The UW has offered exactly no evidence in support of its claim that releasing any part of records that deal with the search for an important public position would wreak havoc on its process because future applicants would refuse to apply if their names might become known,” said Bill Lueders, president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council. “That’s because it’s a bogus claim.”
Madison attorney Christa Westerberg said UW could have redacted names of candidates from the minutes. Applicants are given anonymity if they request it in writing.
“Setting aside whether that is a valid concern, there is a strong public interest in understanding the manner in which the search is conducted,” Westerberg said. “The minutes should reflect that. This, of course, is in addition to the presumption in favor of access in the text of the open records law.”
Wisconsin’s public records law says the “denial of public access generally is contrary to the public interest, and only in an exceptional case may access be denied.”
Sophie Carson reports A Bay View resident was looking for a chess club. Now people of all ages are gathering for games in her front yard:
In one moment Sunday afternoon, empty chairs and cushions sat waiting on Olga Thomas’ front lawn in Milwaukee’s Bay View neighborhood.
In the next, chess lovers and enthusiastic beginners alike were arriving, taking their seats, setting up their boards and diving into games.
It was the second meeting of the new Bay View Knights Chess Club, started by Thomas after inquiring in a neighborhood Facebook group about chess clubs in the area for her 14-year-old son.
Or maybe, she wrote, someone would want to stop by her home on East Oklahoma Avenue for a game.
The response was “overwhelmingly positive,” Thomas said. Hundreds of people replied offering to play or saying they’d always wanted to learn.
“Looking at all these messages coming in, I realized that it should be an organized event. There was no way of keeping up with everything,” she said.
“So within a week we had a logo, a brand, a chess club, chess tables, chessboards and an event scheduled,” she said.
The first event drew about 50 people, Thomas said. She knew some of the attendees, but others were total strangers who had seen the event on Facebook and wanted to stop by.