Good morning,
One often hears that Wisconsin must be a cold and snowy place, but it’s only true in part. Much of our year, in spring and fall, in cold and rainy, not quite cold enough for snow, but instead warm enough only for a cold rain. That’s been our weather yesterday, and perhaps today: a forecast for rain with a high in the upper forties. The National Weather Service depicts the day ahead like this:
I don’t know of any public meetings for the City of Whitewater today, and there’s gain in fewer. People complain that bureaucrats and public officials work too little; it’s just as much the case that they don’t work as little as they might, little being to the community’s benefit.
It’s the last day before Thanksgiving break in our schools. Some students from the high school have a field trip to Mexican stores and restaurants in town. One could schedule all sorts of trips, but this is probably one of the best that one could schedule. Interesting, close at hand, and as much Whitewater as any other part of town.
If there are two local stories about Whitewater to read today, consider these:
Whitewater school board adopts contract for district support staff. If an open meeting is closed in the woods, and no one comes by, does it make a sound?
One more in Walworth County judicial race. Where a sitting district attorney perhaps ponders whether a judgeship might be more valuable than a gold watch, or productive, private employment.
In Wisconsin history, the Wisconsin Historical Society recounts the birthday and adventures of Governor Albert George Schmedeman, someone of whom I had never heard previously:
1864 – Governor Al Schmedeman born today
On this date Albert George Schmedeman was born in Madison, Wisconsin. In 1913 Schmedeman was appointed the United States foreign minister to Norway under President Woodrow Wilson. He served in this capacity until 1921. In 1925 Schmedeman was elected mayor of Madison, a post he held for 4 terms until his election as governor in 1932. In 1934 Schmedeman lost a leg in a tragic accident, and failed to win reelection as governor in 1935. He died in Madison on November 25, 1946. [Source: First Ladies of Wisconsin, The Governors’ Wives by Nancy G. Williams, p. 168,261]