Good morning. 
Wednesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 77. Sunrise is 5:21 AM and sunset 8:22 PM, for 15h 00m 41s of daytime. The moon is full with 100% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Committee meets at 5 PM, and the Whitewater School Board meets in closed session at 6 PM and open session at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1969, Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
Recommended for reading in full —
Patrick Marley and Molly Beck report Top Republican says Wisconsin schools shouldn’t get a general funding increase for the next two years:
The president of the Wisconsin Senate doesn’t want to increase general aid for schools in the next two years because they have received billions of dollars in federal aid since 2020.
“I think we’re good for right now,” Senate President Chris Kapenga said in an interview Tuesday. “My gut is there’s not going to be a big push in the caucus to increase funding.”
The Delafield Republican made the comment as the Legislature’s budget committee prepares to meet Thursday to consider funding for schools and the University of Wisconsin System.
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Kapenga said school and state officials should think creatively to bring down school costs, such as by reducing the number of school districts from more than 400 to 72 — one for each county.
(The merger of dozens of districts into a one-district-per-county system would plunge Wisconsin into years of political warfare among communities over influence within the consolidated districts.)
Patrick Marley and Hope Karnopp report Republicans quickly end Evers’ special session on BadgerCare Plus without action on plan to bring $1.6 billion in aid to state:
In a matter of seconds Tuesday, Republican lawmakers shut down Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ special session that sought to expand BadgerCare Plus and draw $1.6 billion in federal aid to Wisconsin.
Three Republicans — one in the Senate and two in the Assembly — initiated the special session at 1 p.m. and ended it moments later. Most lawmakers were absent, but some Democrats urged them to keep the session alive.
It’s the latest instance of Republicans declining to take up matters prioritized by Evers. In the last two years, Republicans have passed on acting on Evers’ special sessions to require universal background checks on guns; increase school funding; ban police chokeholds and no-knock warrants; and delay the April 2020 election because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Lois Henry reports The Central California Town That Keeps Sinking (‘The very ground upon which Corcoran, Calif., was built has been slowly but steadily collapsing, a situation caused primarily not by nature but agriculture’):
In California’s San Joaquin Valley, the farming town of Corcoran has a multimillion-dollar problem. It is almost impossible to see, yet so vast it takes NASA scientists using satellite technology to fully grasp.
Corcoran is sinking.
Over the past 14 years, the town has sunk as much as 11.5 feet in some places — enough to swallow the entire first floor of a two-story house and to at times make Corcoran one of the fastest-sinking areas in the country, according to experts with the United States Geological Survey.
Subsidence is the technical term for the phenomenon — the slow-motion deflation of land that occurs when large amounts of water are withdrawn from deep underground, causing underlying sediments to fall in on themselves.
Each year, Corcoran’s entire 7.47 square miles and its 21,960 residents sink just a little bit, as the soil dips anywhere from a few inches to nearly two feet.