Good morning.
Monday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of seventy-two. Sunrise is 6:13 AM and sunset 7:39 PM, for 13h 25m 19s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 21.3% of its visible disk illuminated.Today is the one thousand twenty-first day.
Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets at 4:30 PM. The Whitewater Unified School Board meets in closed session at 6:30 PM, and in open session beginning at 7 PM.
On this day in 1863, the 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry is among the Union forces that assault Confederate positions in Perryville, Oklahoma.
Recommended for reading in full:
Rick Romell reports Farm Bureau report: Wisconsin again leads nation in family farm bankruptcies:
From July 2018 through June 2019, Wisconsin farmers filed 45 bankruptcies under Chapter 12, a section of the U.S. bankruptcy code that provides financially troubled family farmers with a streamlined path to repay all or part of their debts.
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With depressed milk prices besetting Wisconsin’s thousands of dairy operations, the state has led the country in farm bankruptcies in recent years. Ronald Wirtz, regional outreach director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, also has pointed to Wisconsin’s smaller average farm size as a factor.
Wisconsin also has lots of farms — the 11th highest total in the nation, data from the 2017 U.S. Census of Agriculture shows. Even accounting for the relatively large number of farms here, however, Wisconsin’s farm bankruptcy rate is among the highest in the country.
Jonathan Swan and Margaret Talev report Trump suggested nuking hurricanes to stop them from hitting U.S.:
President Trump has suggested multiple times to senior Homeland Security and national security officials that they explore using nuclear bombs to stop hurricanes from hitting the United States, according to sources who have heard the president’s private remarks and been briefed on a National Security Council memorandum that recorded those comments.
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- Asked how the briefer reacted, the source recalled he said something to the effect of, “Sir, we’ll look into that.”
- Trump replied by asking incredulously how many hurricanes the U.S. could handle and reiterating his suggestion that the government intervene before they make landfall.
- The briefer “was knocked back on his heels,” the source in the room added. “You could hear a gnat fart in that meeting. People were astonished. After the meeting ended, we thought, ‘What the f—? What do we do with this?'”
Trump also raised the idea in another conversation with a senior administration official. A 2017 NSC memo describes that second conversation, in which Trump asked whether the administration should bomb hurricanes to stop them from hitting the homeland. A source briefed on the NSC memo said it does not contain the word “nuclear”; it just says the president talked about bombing hurricanes.