Good morning.
Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny in the morning and cloudy in the afternoon, with a high of 75. Sunrise is 5:17 and sunset is 8:30, for 15 hours, 13 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 72.7 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Public Arts Commission meets at 5 PM.
On this day in 1947, in a speech at Harvard University, the United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
One reads that state budget talks have been called off as Gov. Tony Evers, Republican lawmakers hit impasse (‘The impasse means Republicans who run the Legislature will write the next budget themselves’):
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republicans who run the Wisconsin Legislature say they’re done negotiating over the state budget, leaving GOP lawmakers to write the document themselves.
While the impasse is hardly shocking in a state that’s lived under divided government since 2019, it followed what Evers’ office said was months of negotiations. Top Republican leaders, who have often criticized Evers for not engaging with the Legislature, all described the talks as “good faith.”
At issue were some of the big picture decisions in Wisconsin’s budget debate, namely how to use a projected $4.3 billion surplus to enact some combination of tax cuts and spending increases.
See Shawn Johnson, State budget talks called off as Gov. Tony Evers, Republican lawmakers hit impasse, Wisconsin Public Radio, June 4, 2025.
These months of negotiations were likely headed to one result: to reveal yet again that there is no meaningful bipartisanship in Wisconsin. See also The WisDems’ Bipartisan Delusion and That ‘Bipartisanship’ Didn’t Last Long — Because It Was Never There.
Aerial video captures severe storm above Austin: