Good morning.
Thursday in Whitewater will be increasingly sunny with a high of 90. Sunrise is 5:20 and sunset is 8:37 for 15 hours 17 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning gibbous with 94.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission is scheduled to meet at 6 PM.
Whitewater’s Independence Holiday celebration begins today at the Cravath Lakefront:
Local Vendors and Beer Garden: 4-10:30 PM
Carnival: 4:30-10:30 PM
Pageant: 6-9 PM
On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress adopts the Lee Resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain. The wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is agreed upon and publicly released two days later, on July 4.
June was another disappointing month for job creation, with prior months also adjusted downward:
The U.S. economy saw job creation cool sharply heading into the summer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday.
Nonfarm payrolls for June increased by a seasonally adjusted 57,000 for the month, slower than the downwardly revised 129,000 added in May and worse than the 115,000 Dow Jones consensus forecast.
The unemployment rate, however, dropped to 4.2%, and slightly ahead of the 4.1% where it was a year ago. The move lower was largely due to a slump in the labor force participation rate, which dropped 0.3 percentage points to 61.5%.
(Emphasis added.) See Jeff Cox, U.S. economy added 57,000 jobs in June, less than expected; unemployment rate at 4.2%, CNBC, July 2, 2026.
Tariffs, trade wars, and forever wars will take a toll on an economy.
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Upcoming posts (in no decided order): A Whitewater Comparative Analysis, Whitewater’s Workforce, and a New Ethics Ordinance.
Lava from Mount Etna Lights Up Sicilian Sky:
Lava flowing from Mount Etna in Sicily lit up the sky on 29 June.