Good morning.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 85. Sunrise is 5:36 and sunset is 8:25, for 14 hours, 49 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 6.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1990, Greg LeMond, an American road racing cyclist, wins his third Tour de France after leading the majority of the race. It was LeMond’s second consecutive Tour de France victory.
There’s an expression, attributed to Winston Churchill, that ‘Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.‘ A variation would apply to the Whitewater School Board, that the board has at last chosen the only realistic option it had, an agreement with the city’s police department. See previously School District Developments on a New Superintendent, School Resource Agreement, City of Whitewater Renews Proposal and Encourages School District to Negotiate, and Status of a School Resource Officer for Whitewater’s Schools.
City officials are surely pleased, as parents in the district should be, but all of this could have been accomplished without the district’s wasteful, indeed ludicrous, consideration of other options. One can present a serious critique of mistakes over the years by this department without being, as the district’s board has been, utterly impractical.
As with a wasted year over negotiations about the aquatic center, this remains a weak board of limited judgment. (The same often-wrong man who served as board president during most of the tedious pool negotiations urged keeping the public in the dark about the district’s wanderings away from a sensible, local security solution. See Yesteryear’s Familiar Tune.)
Open government is good government, and good government is open government.