Good morning.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 91. Sunrise is 5:19 and sunset is 8:37 for 15 hours 17 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning gibbous with 99.6% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1908, the Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in recorded history, results in a massive explosion over eastern Siberia.
There’s occasional talk from the federal administration about how particular industries bring jobs. Often these industries are ones in which Trump, his family, or his cronies have an economic interest. As it turns out, although Trump is no one’s idea of an outdoorsman1, the outdoors support huge numbers of useful and fulfilling jobs.
There are, in fact, more (and cleaner) jobs in nature-related employment in the Midwest alone than there are in the entire U.S. coal industry:
See U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, All Employees, Coal Mining, Fed. Rsrv. Bank of St. Louis, FRED (last updated June 5, 2026).
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- It’s a joke even to suggest, right? Riding a golf cart is not the activity of an outdoorsman. It’s the activity of an octogenarian Florida man who’s never hiked a trail, pitched a tent, or prepared a meal in the wilderness. ↩︎
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Upcoming posts (in no decided order): A Whitewater Comparative Analysis, Whitewater’s Workforce, and a New Ethics Ordinance.
Mount Etna lava lights up Sicilian sky:
Lava from Mount Etna in Sicily lit up the sky with red flashes as eruptions continued at an elevation of 9,800 feet, Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology reported.