Good morning, Whitewater
In Whitewater today, beginning at 5 p.m., there will be a meeting of the Park & Recreation Board. The agenda for the meeting is available online.
In our schools today, there will be a special meeting of the School Board at 6:30 p.m.
In events that directly and immediately affect students (without the delay, ambiguity, or hidden effects of policy), Pennies for Patients takes place at Lakeview and Washington, there are picture re-takes at the High School, and Music Parents will meet at 6:30 at the High School.
The National Weather Service predicts today will be partly sunny and have a high of 70. The Farmers’ Almanac predicts “squalls especially Great Lakes area.” They won’t both be right.
Last week’s better prediction: NWS, again.
On this day in history, in 1917, a proud and worthy moment in Wisconsin history: Robert La Follette’s support of free speech in wartime. The Wisconsin Historical Society recounts that moment:
On this date Senator Robert La Follette gave what may have been the most famous speech of his Senate career when he responded to charges of treason with a three hour defense of free speech in wartime. La Follette had voted against a declaration of war as well as several iniatives seen as essential to the war effort by those that supported U.S. involvement in the first World War. His resistance was met with a petition to the Committee on Privileges and Elections that called for La Follette’s expulsion from the Senate. The charges were investigated, but La Follette was cleared of any wrong doing by the committee on January 16, 1919.
