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Thursday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of seventy-three. Sunrise is 6:24 AM and sunset 7:22 PM, for 12h 57m 29s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 43.1% of its visible disk illuminated.Today is the one thousand thirty-first day.
Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM.
On this day in 1774, the First Continental Congress convenes.
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Patrick Marley reports An $8 million military project in Wisconsin is losing out to help fund Trump’s border wall:
Wisconsin will forgo $8 million in military spending to help pay for a wall along Mexico’s border.
President Donald Trump’s administration is diverting $3.6 billion from military projects for the wall. According to a document posted online by the Washington Post, $8 million of it will come from a planned small arms range at Truax Field in Madison.
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“President Trump promised Mexico would pay for his border wall and that’s clearly not true because he is taking money from our military to pay for it,” Sen. Tammy Baldwin said in a statement.
Tory Newmyer writes Trump’s trade war is sinking his promise to revive American manufacturing:
In another sign the president’s crusade against China is hurting the U.S. economy, factory activity shrank in August for the first time in three years, according to a new survey.
The measures the Institute for Supply Management uses for domestic manufacturing’s health fell nearly across the board. New orders for manufactured goods dropped for the second month in a row to a level not seen since late 2009; production and employment contracted for the first time in three years. Another reporton manufacturing activity — from IHS Markit, also released Tuesday — confirmed the findings, showing the weakest manufacturing activity in nearly a decade.
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The slowdown in American manufacturing comes as the sector has hit a skid worldwide, a development dating to last year that has grown worse as trade tensions have intensified. But the ISM survey left little doubt that the president’s tariff fight is weighing on manufacturers. Four of 10 respondents that the survey quoted invoked the trade war as a top concern (“While business is strong, there is an undercurrent of fear and alarm regarding the trade wars and a potential recession,” one respondent working in chemical products said.)
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Mike Allen writes Trump allies raise money to target reporters:
President Trump’s political allies are trying to raise at least $2 million to investigate reporters and editors of the New York Times, Washington Post and other outlets, according to a 3-page fundraising pitch reviewed by Axios.
- The group claims it will slip damaging information about reporters and editors to “friendly media outlets,” such as Breitbart, and traditional media, if possible.
- People involved in raising the funds include GOP consultant Arthur Schwartz and the “loose network” that the NY Times reported last week is targeting journalists. The operations are to be run by undisclosed others.
The prospectus for the new project says it’s “targeting the people producing the news.”
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