Good morning.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 71. Sunrise is 5:50 and sunset is 8:10 for 14 hours 20 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning gibbous with 56.5 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Comprehensive Plan Advisory Work Group meets virtually at 4 PM.
On this day in 1735, New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.
Last night’s Whitewater Common Council discussion of an agenda item concerning the possible discontinuation of the UW-Whitewater polling location in odd-numbered years led to its postponement until the second council session in September (that is, Tuesday, September 15). The agenda item was first moved higher on the agenda, and then postponed until September. Yesterday’s post, Preliminary Remarks Against the Proposed Discontinuation of the UW–Whitewater Polling Place in Odd-Numbered Years, addressed this proposal.
A recording of councilmembers’ discussion of the polling place item appears below:
A recording of public comment on the topic of polling place discontinuation appears below:
Professional news reporting covered last night’s Whitewater Common Council discussion. See Taj Simmons, Whitewater residents push back on proposal to eliminate UW-Whitewater polling place (“Students and community members who attended the city council meeting were wholly against the idea”), TMJ4, August 4, 2026.
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Upcoming posts (in no decided order): A New Ethics Ordinance and a Whitewater Comparative Analysis.