In a state with high unemployment, with temporary census workers masking the true weakness of the job market, and with the prospect of upcoming tax increases that will retard economic growth, there are still ways for local governments to improve their own prospects. I posted earlier this year on the suggestions of Stephen Goldsmith of…
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Daily Bread
Daily Bread for Whitewater, Wisconsin: 6-7-10
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning, Whitewater Today’s forecast calls for a day of isolated showers, with a high of seventy-one degrees. The City of Whitewater has a busy day ahead, with three municipal meetings scheduled. From 10 a.m. to noon, there will be a meeting of the Whitewater-University Tech Park Board. The meeting’s agenda is available online, and…
Economy
U.S. Economy: May Employment Gain Trails Forecast (Update1) – Bloomberg.com
by JOHN ADAMS •
I’ve contended that our economy, nationally and locally, remains week. The recent unemployment figures confirm that view. See, U.S. Economy: May Employment Gain Trails Forecast (Update1) – Bloomberg.com. The details of the latest report reveal a grim picture: American companies hired fewer workers in May than forecast and workers dropped out of the labor force,…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for Whitewater, Wisconsin: 5-24-10
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning, Whitewater’s forecast calls for a mostly sunny day with a high of eighty-nine degrees. There’s a meeting of Whitewater’s Community Development Authority today, beginning at 4:30 p.m. The agenda is available online. Over at Wisconsin Builder, there’s an article entitled, “Top Projects of 2009.” Our campus’s Hyland Hall is one of those top…
City, Law, Laws/Regulations, Planning
Whitewater’s Planning Commission Meeting from 5/10/10: Residential Overlay
by JOHN ADAMS •
At Item 10 of the May 10th Planning Commission meeting, the Planning Commission considered a residential overlay ordinance, that would place greater restrictions than there would be, for example, in a conventional R-1 zoning district. (Two or fewer unrelated persons living in the single residence, rather than three or fewer persons.) The item stated that…
City, Development, University
Update: How Long Does It Take a Whitewater, Wisconsin Bureaucrat to Screw in a Traffic Light?
by JOHN ADAMS •
Update to the update: I’m getting reader suggestions for limiting traffic from the university side of this intersection via signage or a permanent end to travel as an alternative to junking the gateway. As you can see below, I’d forget about the gateway before I’d delay a pedestrian solution. I’m not concerned about that proposal…
City, Innovation Center/Tech Park
City of Whitewater: We’ve Wasted Spent Less Stimulus Money Than We Expected!
by JOHN ADAMS •
It’s Groundbreaking Part Deux for Whitewater today. Last September, there was a groundbreaking for the tech park, and today there’s one for the Innovation Center. (I’ve no word on whether there will be upcoming celebrations for the warmest tech park afternoon in July, smallest squirrel to frolic nearby, or best children’s depiction of a taxpayer-funded…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for Whitewater, Wisconsin: 4-27-10
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning, Today’s forecast calls for a sunny day, with a high of fifty-seven degrees. This afternoon, at 4 PM, there will be a groundbreaking ceremony for Whitewater’s multi-million dollar, taxpayer-funded Innovation Center. If you’re not able to attend, you can always catch the video of the groundbreaking for the Whitewater University Tech Park, held…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for Whitewater, Wisconsin: 3-2-10
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning, The forecast for Whitewater, Wisconsin calls for a day of patchy fog, with a high of thirty-five degrees. In the City of Whitewater today, there are two principal public meetings — the Tech Park Board meets at 2 p.m., and Common Council meets at 6:30 p.m. Not long ago, at a public meeting,…
City, Planning
Carts Before Horses, and Presentations Before Buildings
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
City, Innovation Center/Tech Park, Planning, Press
On Whitewater’s “Advancing” Tech Park, Part 2
by JOHN ADAMS •
The first part of this topic appears separately, in the preceding post. In this post, I will consider more of Whitewater City Manager Brunner’s published remarks, from a February 8th story entitled, “Whitewater Tech Park advances; panels to study second building.” A Unique Design. Here’s Brunner, remarking on the building’s supposedly unique character: “We are…
City, Planning
On Whitewater’s “Advancing” Tech Park, Part 1
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Last Monday, over at the Daily Union, that paper published an online story entitled, “Whitewater Tech Park advances; panels to study second building.” The story is a solid example of Whitewater officials’ habit of stating the obvious, exaggerating their own achievements, and producing whatever airy speculation they can get into print. In the Daily Union,…
Press Release
Press Release: John Adams to Run for Wisconsin’s 55th Congressional District
by JOHN ADAMS •
The federal government, in an effort to publicize the effects of pork stimulus spending, published a list of the spending projects by United States Congressional District. The publication was deeply embarrassing to the incumbent federal administration, as many of the listed Congressional districts were previously unknown to anyone in Wisconsin, or anyone else in America.…
City
Predictions for Whitewater, Wisconsin for 2010
by JOHN ADAMS •
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 the following number of national sports championships: A. None B. One C. Two D. More than two 2. A new…