Good morning.
Sunday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of eighty-eight. Sunrise is 6:14 AM and sunset 7:38 PM, for 13h 24m 38s of daytime. The moon is full with 100% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1939, the first Major League Baseball game is televised:
August 26 of the same year [1939], the first ever Major League Baseball game was televised (once again on W2XBS). With Red Barber announcing, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincinnati Reds played a doubleheader at Ebbets Field. The Reds won the first, 5–2 while the Dodgers won the second, 6–1. Barber called the game without the benefit of a monitor and with only two cameras capturing the game. One camera was placed behind home plate, in the second tier of seating, while another was positioned near the visitors’ dugout, on the third-base side.[2]
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Russell Feingold writes John McCain Was a Committed Leader. He Was Also Really Fun:
Being with John McCain, who died Saturday afternoon, could be a lot of work but was almost always fun. There were many often heroic chapters in this exciting man’s life to which others can better speak. But he and I spent well over a decade working closely together across the aisle as legislators: all over this country when it came to campaign finance reform, and around the world when it came to foreign policy.
When we traveled from Little Rock to Annapolis to San Francisco and beyond to hold “townhall meetings” in the home districts of recalcitrant senators and congressmen, John delighted in introducing me to the crowds saying: “People in Wisconsin think Senator Feingold’s first name is McCain,” reflecting the popular name of our campaign finance reform bill and also how long it was taking to pass it. In a place like New Orleans, after a long day of meetings and rallies and long after I had gone to bed, John was still playing the tables at Harrah’s though he was 16 years my senior.
When I would see John on the Senate floor way over on the “other” — Republican — side, he would invariably come running over to me and say something like, “C’mon boy, we have to get one more Democrat co-sponsor.” Or, “We’re going to New York next week for a news conference at Teddy Roosevelt’s birthplace.” The conversations were brief, to the point and about getting the job done: He was a determined man, always in motion. All of us, including his terrific staff led by Mark Salter, were always trying to keep up with him, to which John would typically say, “March or die. March or die.”
Paul Waldman contends In his feud with Jeff Sessions, Trump has painted himself into a corner:
So here’s how the president would almost certainly like things to proceed. First, he fires Sessions. Then he finds someone to replace him who has the one quality Sessions lacks: unswerving loyalty to Trump. And not just a general kind of loyalty, but a very specific kind: the willingness to fire Mueller as soon as Trump orders him to, perhaps on his very first day at the Justice Department. This nominee will be confirmed by Trump’s Republican allies in the Senate, he will assume office, he will fire Mueller and shut down the Russia investigation, and Trump will at last be free.
We don’t have to wonder whether that would be the plan, because Trump has made it clear that Sessions’s recusal from the Russia investigation is the primary complaint he has about his performance. There would be no point in replacing Sessions with someone else unless Trump was sure that person would protect him by shutting down the investigation.
But there’s a problem with this plan. Because Trump has made it so clear that he despises Sessions because Sessions isn’t in a position to fire Mueller for him, if and when he does fire Sessions, everyone knows that the only important criterion that he will use in choosing a new attorney general is whether that person will be willing to fire Mueller at Trump’s direction. From the moment of the firing, everyone will be asking, “Is this another Saturday Night Massacre?” The nominee will be asked by every senator and a hundred times in their confirmation hearings whether they discussed the matter with Trump, what they promised and what they intend to do. And don’t forget that Republicans control the Senate by only a 51-49 margin. Just two GOP defections would be enough to doom the nomination.
Patty Murray reports DNR Investigating Manure Runoff In Northeastern Wisconsin:
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is investigating manure runoff in Fond Du Lac County that contaminated waterways and killed fish in the Sheboygan River.
The contamination was reported Wednesday but is thought to have happened Monday during a heavy rainstorm.
Redtail Ridge Dairy, LLC is believed to be the source of the manure, which might have been washed off its fields into creeks that run into the Sheboygan River. The farm milks 1,400 cows and houses younger cows as well, and spreads manure on several parcels amounting to roughly 2,000 acres.
Ben Uvaas is a wastewater specialist for the DNR who self-described himself as a “manure cop.”
He said the manure has depleted oxygen levels in miles of local creeks.
Samantha West reports UW System Board of Regents approves name changes for 2-year campuses:
As the University of Wisconsin system completes the restructuring process that merges several two-year with four-year campuses, the Board of Regents approved official name changes Friday.
As of July 1, many former two-year UW Colleges campuses began operating as branch campuses of regional comprehensive campuses.
The new names announced at the meeting:
• University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Manitowoc Campus
• University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Marinette Campus
• University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Sheboygan Campus
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Washington County
• University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Waukesha
• University of Wisconsin-Platteville Baraboo Sauk County
• University of Wisconsin-Platteville Richland
• University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point at Wausau
• University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point at Marshfield
• University of Wisconsin-Whitewater at Rock County
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