Good morning.
Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny, with a chance of late afternoon thundershowers, and a high of eighty-two. Sunrise is 6:17 AM and sunset 7:34 PM, for 13h 17m 04s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 1.2% of its visible disk illuminated.Today is the one thousand twenty-fourth day.
Whitewater’s Joint Review Board meets today at 1:30 PM.
On this day in 2005, Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in Louisiana, causing catastrophic damage to New Orleans and other cities in the region.
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Molly Beck and Patrick Marley report Lame-duck fallout: Wisconsin politicians still don’t have a way to settle lawsuits as more than 12 cases sit unresolved:
More than a dozen lawsuits involving state taxpayers are languishing because Wisconsin politicians can’t agree on how to resolve them under a new Republican law aimed at curbing the power of the Democratic attorney general.
The impasse comes as billions of dollars are on the table for states suing over the opioid crisis — including Wisconsin.
Nine months after Republican lawmakers passed a law requiring Attorney General Josh Kaul to get their permission before resolving lawsuits there’s still no agreement between the two on how to do it.
Kaul and lawmakers have been debating for months on how to navigate the new law and have put off resolving more than a dozen cases, according to documents obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel this week.
Kaul’s office in July asked the Legislature’s finance committee to hold a hearing to adopt plans to resolve some of the outstanding cases, including one over financial problems at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Foundation.
Christine Schmidt reports to How publishers are cutting print days — and not losing (too many) subscribers:
It’s now inevitable that many newspaper publishers will slash the frequency of their print product. They won’t necessarily change their online output, but will reduce the number of days they spend setting up the newsprint, paying plant workers to assemble it and drivers to deliver it, etc. Chased by newsprint tariffs and squeezing budgets, un-dailying the daily newspaper is “one of the top topics of discussion in the boardroom,” an industry consultant told Ken Doctor earlier this month.
More than 100 U.S. newspapers have changed their printing frequency since 2004, according to UNC’s Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media, but that number is expected to skyrocket. This discussion could be wrapped up and in action as early as 2020.
Adam Liszewski reports Monkey Shatters Zoo Glass With Sharpened Stone in Impressive Prison Break Attempt:
On August 20, visitors to the Zhengzhou Zoo, located in Central China’s Henan Province, were amused by a Colombian white-faced capuchin monkey who had picked up a rock with a sharp edge and was using it to bang away on one of the glass walls of its enclosure, the People’s Daily reports.
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A zoo staffer told Chinese media that this particular capuchin monkey has stood out by using tools to crack open walnut treats, instead of just struggling to bite open the tough shells. After the incident, the rocks in the enclosure were reportedly removed.