The forecast is for a chance of flurries, with a high of 27 degrees.
I don’t know of any public meetings scheduled for the City of Whitewater today.
There’s a holiday concert scheduled at Lakeview School, at 10 AM and 1:30 PM. It’s Eagle and Spirit Day at Washington School. At the Middle School, there’s a student vs. staff basketball game today.
In the city tonight, at 6 PM, there’s a Christmas Parade, sponsored, I think, by the Whitewater Area Chamber of Commerce. It’s not called a Christmas Parade, because that speech — those very words — would offend someone. I’m sure that they would. We are a small town, with a big city problem — that everything one says and does must be ‘appropriate,’ lest we offend.
There’s a great book, You Can’t Say That! — The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Anti-Discrimination Laws, by David Bernstein, that considers how speech suffers from complaints about the supposedly proper, correct use of words.
I cannot confirm a report that the Holiday Parade tonight may include a Police and Fire Commission float. I’m told it makes a brief appearance, travels very quickly down the route, and thereafter leaves no mark of its presence within the community. In any event, if we can televise a holiday parade, we can surely televise Police and Fire Commission meetings.