Good morning.
It’s a day of strong thunderstorms ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of eighty degrees.
There’s a regular school board meeting tonight, beginning ?in closed session at 6 p.m., with an open session at beginning at 7 p.m., and a possible resumption of the closed session later tonight. ?The agenda as written offers no mention of an open session announcement tonight about internal candidates for district administrator.
Tomorrow’s currently scheduled special meeting lists closed session interviews, if any, and a possible announcement thereafter.
Correction, 6.28.11: interviews are an open process.
It’s not absurd to seek an internal candidate, but Whitewater’s approach — both exemplar and self-parody of a closed process — has little more than an even chance of producing a good candidate. ?See,?Whitewater Schools? Coin Flip.
The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls today as a birthday:
1837 – The Milwaukee Sentinel Founded
On this date the?Milwaukee Sentinel, the oldest newspaper in the state, was founded as a weekly publication by?Solomon Juneau, who also was Milwaukee’s first mayor. [Source:?History Just Ahead:?A Guide to Wisconsin’s Historical Markers edited by Sarah Davis McBride, p. 19]
That’s an inauspicious beginning that’s turned out well, as the paper has long since rejected the combination of politician and publisher, and embraced an independence lacking at its founding.