Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny, with a high of seventy. Sunrise is 6:29 AM and sunset 7:14 PM, for 12h 45m 27s of daytime. The moon is new with 0.1% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the six hundred sixty-fifth day.Days since Trump’s election, with 11.9.16 as the first day. On…
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Bad Ideas, CDA, City, Economics, Economy, Politics, Taxes/Taxation, That Which Paved the Way, Trump
The Trump Tax Bill: The Wrong Incentives
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Whitewater’s Community Development Authority twice touted a part of the Trump tax bill as good for Whitewater. (See press release 1, press release 2.) Continuing a general look at the bill, it’s clear that it’s bad public policy, producing the wrong incentives. By its very nature, a tax bill is a government policy, favoring some allocations…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 7.16.18
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will see scattered morning showers and a high of eighty-four. Sunrise is 5:30 AM and sunset 8:31 PM, for 14h 58m 41s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 16.2% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the six hundred tenth day.Days since Trump’s election, with 11.9.16 as…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 5.18.18
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Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of seventy-two. Sunrise is 5:28 AM and sunset 8:14 PM, for 14h 46m 22s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 13% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the five hundred fifty-fourth day.Days since Trump’s election, with 11.9.16 as the…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 12.26.17
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be chilly, with a high of nine degrees under sunny skies. Sunrise is 7:24 AM and sunset sunset 4:27 PM, for 9h 02m 54s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 52.1% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the {tooltip}four hundred eleventh day.{end-texte}Days since Trump’s election,…
Books, Culture, Economy, Janesville, Politics
Considering Janesville: An American Story (Part 9 of 14)
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
This is the ninth in a series of posts considering Amy Goldstein’s Janesville: An American Story. In this post, I’ll cover remaining chapters from Part Four (2011) of Janesville. Part of this story is well-known to Wisconsinites: Gov. Walker introduces a Budget Repair Bill (since its enactment into law now-universally called Act 10 by Wisconsinites), Democratic senators leave…
Books, Culture, Economy, Janesville
Considering Janesville: An American Story (Part 6 of 14)
by JOHN ADAMS • • 4 Comments
This is the sixth in a series of posts considering Amy Goldstein’s Janesville: An American Story. In this post, I’ll cover five chapters from Part Three (2010) of Janesville (The Last Days of Parker Pen, Becoming a Gypsy, Family is More Important than GM, Honor Cords, and The Day the White House Comes to Town). What was left…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 12.16.16
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Here is our small city we’ll have cold temperatures after afternoon snowfall: Friday’s daytime high will be nineteen, with a significant snowfall beginning in the afternoon and stretching into Saturday. Sunrise is 7:20 AM and sunset 4:22 PM, for 9h 02m 13s of daytime. The moon’s a waning gibbous with 91.3% of its…
Economics, Economy
Rapid Over Gradual
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
There’s a policy study out from Cato entitled, 25 Years of Reforms in Ex-Communist Countries: Fast and Extensive Reforms Led to Higher Growth and More Political Freedom (via pdf Oleh Havrylyshyn, Xiaofan Meng, and Marian L. Tupy, Cato Policy Analysis 795, 7.12.16). I finished it last night (the paper’s well-written, relatively brief, and persuasive). There’s…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 3.12.16
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning, Whitewater. Saturday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of sixty-three. Sunrise is 6:09 and sunset 5:59, for 11h 49m 42s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 16.8% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1933, Pres. Roosevelt began this first of thirty fireside chats: Fireside chats…
City, Health, Waste Digesters, WGTB, WHEN GREEN TURNS BROWN
Question Bin
by JOHN ADAMS • • 4 Comments
Post 6 in a series. A list of questions, updated as new ones arise, from When Green Turns Brown. Find this post, and you’ll have found all the questions from the entire series as they’re added . (Every question in this series has a unique number, assigned consecutively based on when it was asked. All…
Business, Federal Government, Politics
In U.S., Fear of Big Government at Near-Record Level
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Americans’ concerns about the threat of big government continue to dwarf those about big business and big labor, and by an even larger margin now than in March 2009. The 64% of Americans who say big government will be the biggest threat to the country is just one percentage point shy of the record high,…
City
Review: Predictions for Whitewater, Wisconsin for 2010
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Here is my early January 2010 post with predictions for the year. How did I do? Results below the post…. Here’s my local, amateur version of (the now late) William Safire’s tradition of offering annual predictions, when he was at the New York Times. The list for 2010: 1. In 2010, the University will win…
Crime, University
Wisconsin State Journal: Questions abound after uptick in hate crimes at university campuses
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Reporters Deborah Ziff and Doug Erickson write about the rise in hate crimes on some state campuses. They note how standards for cataloguing incidents vary between schools — Even on UW campuses, there is variance in what officials interpret as a hate crime. At UW-Eau Claire, racist graffiti in four bathroom stalls in March, including…