Good morning.
Tuesday in Whitewater will see afternoon thunderstorms with a high of 80. Sunrise is 6:04 and sunset is 7:52 for 13 hours 48 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waxing crescent with 35.4 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
The Whitewater Common Council meets at 6 PM.
On this day in 1868, French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium.
One of the items on the agenda of the Whitewater Common Council tonight is an assessment of a development proposal for Jefferson Street. This libertarian blogger will follow and post about the discussion.
For today, there’s a different — preliminary but inescapable — assessment to draw from the work of the city’s economic development team: this level of analysis is superior to the work of the city’s old Community Development Authority from a decade ago. There’s no way around this prima facie observation; no one in the prior city administration or on the old CDA produced anything like this ten years ago.
We are a city with a public school system and a university campus, and yet the work even a decade ago was below the skill and talents of our residents. That prior work did not meet the standards of our city, our state, or our nation. We are, all of us, members of a productive and competitive society unlike any other.
I write this with both sadness and optimism: it has been a long time coming, but our city government now meets a competitive standard of reasoning and written assessment. Sadness: years and opportunities were lost to a lower standard. Optimism: of course our community can achieve a better standard.
It’s right in front of us —
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Forthcoming topics (in no particular order): Development in Downtown Whitewater (Follow-Up), the Value of a UW-Whitewater Education, A New Ethics Ordinance, and Polling Places in the City (Further Considerations).
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