Good morning.
Monday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 75. Sunrise is 5:19 and sunset is 8:26 for 15 hours 7 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning gibbous with 98.7 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets at 5:30 PM and the Plan & Architectural Review Commission meets at 6 PM.
On this day in 1890, the United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith‘s tabulating machine to count census returns.
Bryan Steil, U.S. Representative for Wisconsin’s gerrymandered 1st Congressional District, voted against funding to reduce lead in drinking water, but now that the money’s on the way to Wisconsin, he’s claiming credit in a press release. Here stands a man at the front of a parade he tried to cancel:
Rep. Bryan Steil (R-Wis.) is taking credit for helping to bring $94.3 million to his state to reduce lead in drinking water — except that federal money is flowing from a bill he voted against: President Joe Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure law.
“Great news for Wisconsin! Proud to have worked to bring safe drinking water funding to our state,” Steil said Wednesday on social media. He shared a screenshot and link to an Environmental Protection Agency press release announcing the funding.
This money is being awarded to states through the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, which draws its funds from a $15 billion pool established under the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Steil voted against this bill when it passed the House in November 2021.
“Today, I voted against the so-called infrastructure portion of Speaker Pelosi and President Biden’s $3 trillion spending agenda,” the Wisconsin Republican said at the time.
See Jennifer Bendery, Republican Rep. Bryan Steil Takes Credit For Funding He Voted Against, Huffpost, May 28, 2026.
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Upcoming posts (in no decided order): A Whitewater Comparative Analysis, Whitewater’s Workforce, and Outcome-Driven Argumentation.
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