Good evening, Whitewater’s weather tonight should be clear and comfortable. People sometimes say that summer nights in the 50s or 60s are comfortable. That’s true (and tonight is forecast for 60 degrees), but even occasional colder nights are agreeable. Hard not to find these days other than agreeable. It’s the beginning of America’s largest summer…
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Economy, Government Spending
An Economy Worse Than Two Years Ago
by JOHN ADAMS •
City, Innovation Center/Tech Park
The City Manager’s Greetings from Ames, Iowa
by JOHN ADAMS •
I’ve posted cards about Whitewater from earlier times, but it’s a card from Iowa that I’ve embedded today. Imagine someone passing along a card from Ames, Iowa, site of a recent International (!) Town and Gown Association meeting on sustainable partnerships. Here’s that recent find: Click card to view larger image The postcard that I’ve…
Development, Free Markets, Planning
The Wall Street Journal on Private Campaigns Against Walmart
by JOHN ADAMS •
In prior posts, I’ve made clear the difference between competition between private merchants and local government’s endorsement of a campaign that expressly favors one kind of merchant over another. That’s not the place for government, either on principle (government should be limited) or prudently (government has a poor record of picking winners in the marketplace).…
City, Government Spending, Innovation Center/Tech Park
Avoiding State and Local Economic Problems
by JOHN ADAMS •
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…
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,…