Good morning.

Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 86. Sunrise is 5:19 and sunset is 8:37, for 15 hours, 18 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 12.4 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1902, Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.
One reads at the Journal Sentinel from four reporters (Molly Beck, Jessie Opoien, Daniel Bice, and Lawrence Andrea) that Tim Michels and Eric Hovde are considering running for governor. It’s less a news story than filler. See Businessmen Tim Michels, Eric Hovde considering return to politics with runs for Wisconsin governor, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 27, 2025.
This is a story from “Republican sources” and “sources who spoke with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.” The reporters then use embattled WISGOP chairman Brian Schimming to comment on the rumors. (In fairness, Michels looks improbable even to Schimming, who laughably adds that he thinks Tom Tiffany might run. Tiffany might run, but if so it would be more economical to jump ahead to Tiffany’s inevitable outcome and say that Tiffany lost.)
These sources won’t be quoted by name for an anodyne story about whether Hovde or Michels might run? It’s not a controversial topic. It’s not news that two out-of-state mediocrities might want to buy the governor’s mansion to run for office again. The story is simply an attempt by political operatives to float (and launder, truly) their choices through the press. There’s no groundswell for Michels or Hovde. Never was.
Indeed, Michels and Hovde are so out-of-state that the Journal Sentinel has to tell readers in the story’s title that the paper’s sources say they might run for Wisconsin governor. Knowledgeable readers might otherwise wonder if Hovde was thinking about the West Coast and Michels about Connecticut.
Fireball in the sky over US as suspected meteor rattles Georgia and the Carolinas: