Good morning. 
Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 71. Sunrise is 5:25 AM and sunset 8:34 PM, for 15h 09m 23s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 2.3% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1789, James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.
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Ricardo Torres reports ‘We never agreed to anything’: Foxconn area property owners get $1.6 million they didn’t ask for and their business is landlocked:
It may seem like the Ericksons got a good deal from the Village of Mount Pleasant: $1.6 million for less than 2 acres of land to help make way for the massive Foxconn project.
But it’s a deal the family didn’t ask for, or agree to, and now they’re waging a fight against the village.
“It closed our business,” Jack Erickson said. “So when you say you got $1.6 million for an acre and a half; well, an acre and a half plus you closed our business. And you landlocked us on 11 acres. They know what they’re doing.”
Jack and his wife, Colleen, have owned and operated Erickson Trucks-N-Parts since 1997 in Mount Pleasant. In 2016, they were planning to construct a new building on their property along the frontage road.
Then, in 2017 the Foxconn Technology Group announced it would be building a massive campus in Mount Pleasant, and the Ericksons’ property was in Area I of the development.
Now the Ericksons are one of the few remaining private properties in the Foxconn area. They’ve launched a fight against the village to prevent officials from declaring the property blighted, be fairly compensated for their property or have access to a public road so they can maintain their business.
See also FREE WHITEWATER‘s dedicated category on Foxconn.
Paul Waldman writes Trump’s latest ridiculous lawsuit shows how small he has become:
The lawsuit itself is so laughable that it gives away the game; not even Trump could think this is something he’d actually win.
His complaint against Facebook — presumably prepared by actual lawyers, hard as that may be to believe — claims that it “rises beyond that of a private company to that of a state actor. As such, Defendant is constrained by the First Amendment right to free speech in the censorship decisions it makes regarding its Users.”
It goes on to use the word “unconstitutional” again and again to describe Facebook’s decisions, despite the fact that only government action is or isn’t constitutional.
Facebook may be one of the most pernicious forces on Earth, but it’s a private company that set up rules for those who chose to use its service. Trump repeatedly violated those rules, and was kicked off. It really isn’t all that complicated, and it’s the furthest thing from “unconstitutional.”
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To repeat, even if the companies were just removing Republicans for being Republicans (which they aren’t), they would have every right to do so.
Ambitious politicians often stage stunts to appeal to their party’s base; the dumber they think that base is, the dumber the stunts will be. But Trump is a former president. No one expected him to discover dignity for the first time in his 75 years, yet so much of what he is doing these days is just petty and small.
And what is this suit about? It’s about money, of course. As soon as Trump announced the suit, fundraising texts were blasted out to his supporters.
“President Trump is filing a LAWSUIT against Facebook and Twitter for UNFAIR CENSORSHIP!” they read. “Please contribute IMMEDIATELY to INCREASE your impact by 500% and to get your name on the Donor List President Trump sees!”