Like most people, with just one month left in the year, I find that there’s a long task list ahead. Even if not every task will be completed this month, it’s worth taking stock.
At FREE WHITEWATER, there’s more to write about Whitewater’s Innovation Center, tax incremental financing, and officials’ use of email, among other topics.
I’m just as interested in more posts about aspects of life here, including reviews of local shops and restaurants. (At the suggestion of someone in town, restaurant reviews will require a more comprehensive set of standards than I had originally drafted. It’s back to the drawing board, so that I can become a halfway-proper restaurant critic, if not a proper one.)
FREE WHITEWATER is a now mix of local, state, and national topics.
That will change in January, with the publication of a second website, devoted mainly to Wisconsin and national stories. There’s much to do, to get that second site ready, but just as much thereafter to write more liberally about aspects of Whitewater that I’ve neglected. (I’m not sure what to do about comments — whether I’ll move them to the new website, keep them here, or both.)
Nor do I know where Walworth County stories will go, between the two sites, but there are some topics there to explore.
After that new site begins, and gets a good start, there are still two ebooks to finish, one about municipal government, and one descended from a twiller that I wrote about a fictional town. I’m not a writer, but it is great fun writing.
There are other loose ends that I’ve not listed here, but that I have marked among my tasks.
Whitewater, though, should be a particular interest for anyone thinking about Wisconsin: this small town’s beautiful, eccentric, but sadly troubled, too. Its charm makes it a great place to write; its troubles — often self-inflicted — make it a place worth contending over, as there’s need for reform. Wisconsin and America have some of these same troubles, but Whitewater is a small town with outsized need.
This month, however planned, is yet only one month; a new one will be here soon enough. This month or another, the right and need for free and vigorous commentary will be unchanged.