Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 73. Sunrise is 6:28 and sunset is 7:14, for 12 hours, 46 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 93 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1972, in Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.
Rich Kremer reports that Bryan Steil and Derrick Van Orden are Wisconsin’s top Democratic targets but haven’t strayed from Trump:
Trump has pursued much of his agenda without Congress, but his signature budget law is the exception. Nearly every Republican voted for it, including Steil and Van Orden.
Neither lawmaker has shied away from the votes, especially Van Orden. While he’s avoided in-person town halls, he’s been among the president’s most outspoken supporters, especially on social media.
“We will be passing @realDonaldTrump Big Beautiful Bill and anyone that is (in) the way needs to find another Party,” Van Orden wrote on X in late May.
“I am very proud to stand with @realDonaldTrump and the One Big Beautiful Bill,” he wrote in another post in June. “We are delivering on the mandate given by the American people. Cope.”
Steil and Van Orden cannot stray from Trump: WISGOP primary voters in their gerrymandered districts would not allow it.
There’s another reason they’ll not stray, however, a reason more immediate and psychological. They’ve espoused a far-right populist agenda, and populism is an insatiable extremism from which few adherents ever recant. Those who develop a craving for populism (the nativism, the magical economics, the thirst to impose their will on others by force) want more, not less. Go that far, and you’ve gone too far to walk back. Drink a little, and they quickly fill another glass.
The gap between a reasoned politics and populism is canyon-wide. Van Orden and Steil will stay where they are, come what may.
Visible from Australia, across Asia and western Europe, a blood moon has been captivating stargazers. This marvel is caused when the Earth shades the moon from direct solar light, causing the moon to appear red.
Monday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 71. Sunrise is 6:27 and sunset is 7:16, for 12 hours, 49 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 99 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
The Whitewater School Board’s Policy Review Committee meets at 4:30 PM. Whitewater’s Planning and Architectural Commission meets at 6 PM.
On this day in 1966, the landmark science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, “The Man Trap.”
Administration officials also have said they expect provisions in Trump’s signature legislation, which he dubbed “the One Big Beautiful Bill,” to encourage greater business investment. In July, Bessent promised Fox that the measure “will set off growth like we have never seen before.”
Some Wall Street banks forecast a more muted performance, at least in the short term. Morgan Stanley pegs economicgrowth in the current quarter at 1.5 percent.
Today’s labor market weakness can be traced to several Trump policies, economists said. On-again, off-again tariff announcements over the past several months have made it difficult for businesses to plan new investments or to hire.
Trump has imposed the highest tariffs since the 1930s in a bid to encourage domestic manufacturing. Yet factory employment has dropped by 41,000 since February. Other trade-related sectors, including mining, wholesalers and oil and gas extraction, also have seen payrolls shrink in recent months. And the boom in factory construction that began under President Joe Biden ended after Trump eliminated many of the government subsidies that encouraged such projects.
“We aren’t even seeing the beginnings of a tariff-related recovery in manufacturing. You don’t expect to see it overnight. But it’s going in the wrong direction,” said economist Dean Baker, co-founder of the Center for Economic Policy Research in Washington.
The president’s crackdown on illegal immigration, including workplace raids like the one at a Hyundai plant in Georgia on Friday, is driving down the availability of foreign-born workers, which also weighs on hiring. Over the first six months of the year, the nation’s foreign-born population fell by more than 1 million, according to the Pew Research Center.
Trump’s tougher immigration policy, coupled with the effects of societal aging, are reducing potential monthly job growth by more than 100,000 hires, according to Barclays.
The Trump administration weathered another disappointing U.S. jobs report when the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced on September 5, 2025, that total nonfarm payroll employment rose by only 22,000 in August. The total seasonally adjusted labor force has increased by only 34,000 since January 2025 and has decreased by 357,000 since its peak in April 2025.
“The loss of immigrant workers and immigrant consumers is a major cause of slow job growth,” said labor economist Mark Regets, a senior fellow at the National Foundation for American Policy, in an interview. “Immigrants both create demand for the goods and services produced by U.S.-born workers and work alongside them in ways that increase productivity for both groups.”
Far-right populism has no sound economic theory, certainly not a theory of mutually supporting, synergistic growth. (The populists aren’t free-market types.) Populism has, in economics and culture, only a zero-sum theory of someone’s loss as someone else’s gain. And so, and so, they erroneously believe that deportations, for example, would leave more for everyone else.
It hasn’t and it won’t work that way. It’s worth noting, however, that populist claims of an economic gain were, at bottom, only secondary to them in any event.
It’s a cultural and political retribution that they want. They’ll inflict (and endure) widespread economic pain for their primary cultural goals.
South Korea’s president, Lee Jae Myung, has promised to make ‘all-out efforts’ to resolve the arrest of hundreds of the country’s citizens by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) during a raid at a factory being built in Georgia, Atlanta, to make car batteries. The incident could exacerbate tensions between the Trump administration and Seoul, a key Asian ally and investor.
Sunday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 64. Sunrise is 6:26 and sunset is 7:18, for 12 hours, 52 minutes of daytime. The moon is full with 100 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1776, according to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world’s first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor.
New data last week showed a fourth month of tepid job growth and propelled joblessness to its highest level since late 2021, when the economy was still recovering from the effects of the covid-19 pandemic. Now, as companies wrestle with inflation, economic uncertainty and trade policy whiplash, many are shredding payrolls and shifting tasks to artificial intelligence while pulling in higher profits. And some executives are pointedly broadcasting sizable layoffs as wins, a sign they’re making workforces leaner and more efficient.
Hardly any corner of the economy is untouched by jobs cuts and slowdown: Employment in all goods-producing industries slumped in August, with the deepest losses coming from manufacturing and mining. The service sector was racked by steep layoffs in business and professional services and IT.
Meanwhile, job vacancies are shrinking as employers hold fire on hiring, data show. Factor in dimming consumer sentiment — which hit a three-month low in August — and conditions are ripe for labor market gridlock, said Bill Adams, chief economist for Comerica Bank in Dallas, leaving the economy “operating in low gear.”
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Mark Cohen, the former director of retail studies at Columbia Business School, expects those numbers to grow as retailers contend with tariff headwinds and as consumers feel increasingly pessimistic about the economy.
“There’s enormous uncertainty throughout the economy. Retail and retail support is well over 70 percent of the economy’s makeup, and the inputs to retail are entirely linked to international trade,” he said. “In the face of uncertainty, what choice do they have? Hire fewer people.”
Trump’s role was never economic. His role was, is, and always will be to deliver retribution for far-right populists against their ethnic, racial, and cultural enemies.
The world’s largest and most enduring iceberg is splintering into smaller pieces, to the point that it’s no longer the biggest chunk of ice floating in the oceans. It’s currently drifting between the southern tips of Africa and South America.
Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 63. Sunrise is 6:25 and sunset is 7:20, for 12 hours, 55 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 98.2 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1976, Soviet Air Defense Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.
At an animal shelter in Green Bay, a retired volunteer is living every cat lover’s — and nap lover’s — dream.
For seven years, 82-year-old former Spanish teacher Terry Lauerman has been donating his time to Safe Haven Pet Sanctuary. The shelter is dedicated to rescuing cats and dogs with special needs and disabilities. Terry’s specialty? Lying down and snoozing with the shelter’s cats.
“When you get old, you fall asleep easily, so it’s natural,” Lauerman told WPR’s “Wisconsin Today.”
See Beatrice Lawrence, Wisconsin’s viral ‘Cat Napper’ is living every cat lover’s dream (‘Retiree Terry Lauerman volunteers at Green Bay’s Safe Haven Pet Sanctuary, where he takes naps with the shelter’s special-needs cats’), Wisconsin Public Radio, September 5, 2025.
Friday in Whitewater will be windy with a high of 62. Sunrise is 6:24 and sunset is 7:21, for 12 hours, 58 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 93.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
U.S. job growth slowed significantly in August, a sign the labor market is under increasing stress.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that the United States added 22,000 jobs in August, well below expectations of 75,000. The unemployment rate ticked higher to 4.3%, in line with expectations.
“The U.S. economy appears to have stagnated” since July, analysts with Citi said in a note this week. They cited a separate survey from the Federal Reserve released Wednesday that showed little to no increase in economic activity or employment over the past several weeks.
Revised data reported by the BLS showed the jobs market actually contracted in June, though it climbed slightly more than initial estimates in July. Combined, employment for the two months is now 21,000 lower than previously reported, the BLS said. The federal statistical agency issues revisions as more businesses and governments provide data, and as seasonal factors get recalculated.
None of this should be surprising. Extreme populism does not, at bottom, have a coherent economics (let alone a sound economics); it has cultural grievances and political scores to settle.
Tuesday, September 9th at 1:00 PM, there will be a showing of Jane Austen Wrecked My Life @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building:
Comedy/Romance rated R (language)
1 hour, 38 minutes (2025).
An aspiring author, looking to get more out of life, takes up a writing residency and finds herself in the sort of romantic entanglements that could come from the pages of a Jane Austen novel. Filmed in England and France. Dialogue in English and French with subtitles.
Thursday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 64. Sunrise is 6:23 and sunset is 7:23, for 13 hours, 0 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 87.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Public Arts Commission meets at 5 PM.
Whitefish Bay manufacturing CEO Bill Berrien said he supported Milwaukee Police Association President Alex Ayala’s plans to ask the Trump administration to send National Guard troops to Milwaukee, calling the city “one of the most crime-ridden cities in the country.”
And Washington County Executive Josh Schoemann told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Wednesday that he would “proactively work with the President to deploy sufficient law enforcement to keep our neighbors in Milwaukee safe, including the National Guard,” if he’s elected governor.
How could it be otherwise for them? They’re the equivalent of leaves on a river asking the river to keep flowing. They won’t shape their campaigns, even in part; the populist movement will.
When Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers announced this summer he would not seek reelection in 2026, Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany called President Donald Trump.
“With me considering doing it, I just wanted to make sure the president knew that Gov. Evers is not going to run for re-election. And we talked about it,” said Tiffany, who plans to announce whether he’ll launch a campaign for governor before the end of September.
“The purpose of that call was to set up the state of play in Wisconsin because the president more than anyone understands the importance of Wisconsin,” Tiffany, who represents the solidly red 7th Congressional District, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Republican sources have told the Journal Sentinel that Trump declined to endorse Tiffany’s run for governor during his White House meeting. But Tiffany said Trump “didn’t say anything like that to me.”
He said Trump’s top concern during the discussion was maintaining a GOP majority in the House. Trump asked Tiffany what the status of the 7th District would be if Tiffany decided to run for governor.
Oh my — pitiful as it is servile. In Tiffany’s telling, he felt the need to tell Trump that Gov. Evers wasn’t running again. Trump may not know economics, foreign policy, or public health (he doesn’t), but he does know politics. Trump most certainly knew that Tony Evers declined a third run without Tom Tiffany calling the White House. Honest to goodness.
Articles about the local aspects of the Wisconsin gubernatorial race are largely anachronistic. The Wisconsin gubernatorial race will be a national race, as populism and Mr. Trump’s opinion matter far more to the WISGOP.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be cloudy, with scattered showers and a high of 67. Sunrise is 6:22 and sunset is 7:25, for 13 hours, 3 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 80.2 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Lakes Advisory Committee meets at 4 PM and the Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM.
On this day in 1783, the Revolutionary War ends with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain (that became effective May 12, 1784).
Wisconsin Watch’s Natalie Yahr writes about The Future of Work in Wisconsin (in four categories across six charts): fastest growing jobs, jobs with most openings, declining employment, and popular jobs.
Many of the jobs shrinking the fastest are ones you might expect: those based on outdated technologies or practices. About one in four positions held by telemarketers, switchboard operators, couriers, door-to-door salespeople and street vendors is projected to vanish by 2032.
Of the top 10 fastest-shrinking jobs, nine don’t usually require a college education.
Secretaries and administrative assistants are expected to lose the most jobs (2,420), followed by couriers and messengers (1,990), customer service representatives (1,550) and tellers (1,290).
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has been shooting lava from its summit crater about once a week since late last year, delighting residents, visitors and online viewers alike with a firehose of molten rock.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 76. Sunrise is 6:21 and sunset is 7:27, for 13 hours, 6 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 71.6 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Alcohol Licensing Committee meets at 5 PM and the Whitewater Common Council at 6 PM.
On this day in 1864, Union forces enter Atlanta as the city surrenders, ending the Atlanta campaign as a victory for General William T. Sherman.
Was Monday, September 1, 2025, the last Labor Day for the Walker era’s Act 10? That provision faces a likely Wisconsin Supreme Court decision:
A Dane County Circuit Court judge last year ruled that provisions of Act 10 were unconstitutional because the law treats public safety workers differently from other public employees. Judge Jacob Frost later ordered the restoration of collective bargaining powers for all public workers to what they were before Act 10 was adopted — a decision that appears all but certain to be decided by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, which has a 4-3 liberal majority.
Fresh off his 2010 victory, then-Republican Gov. Scott Walker in February 2011 unveiled his plan to sweep away decades of protections for state public employees as a way to address a projected $3.6 billion budget deficit. The proposal eventually became known as Act 10, and it hobbled public unions across Wisconsin and remains one of the most divisive measures in state history.
Act 10 effectively ended collective bargaining for most public-sector unions by limiting what they could negotiate over to base wage increases only, limiting those to a rate no greater than inflation.
The Dane County Circuit Court decision (Judge Jacob Frost) is on appeal. Predicting judicial decisions is a dicey business, and I’ll not offer a prediction here.
(A generation ago, it would still have been clear to most libertarians that any person should be able to form any association, to bargain with any public or private institution. Those are simply rights of association. I’d say that few libertarians now see this, but it’s more accurate to say that there are few libertarians.)
It’s worth noting, however, that Act 10 and Wisconsin’s still-gerrymandered Congressional districts are among the only enduring accomplishments of Scott Walker’s tenure. The WEDC is a shadow of former self, with Foxconn now remembered only as a mistake everyone would like to forget.
What’s changed most in Wisconsin, however, is the party of which Walker is a member. The WISGOP is a far-right party now, lousy with conspiracy theories and nativism, into which Walker, always an awkward man, now only awkwardly fits.
The WISGOP has moved on, even if Wisconsin law has not, and even if the law will not. Disadvantaging some workers over others is weak tea for a party that routinely demands deporting some workers over others. Anti-union is a pale version of anti-immigrant. Today’s WISGOP embraces a more dystopian vision for Wisconsin, one in which Act 10 seems tepid by contrast.
Labor Day in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 75. Sunrise is 6:20 and sunset is 7:28, for 13 hours, 9 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 62.8 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1939, Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.
For most people, keeping track of one job is complicated enough—now, imagine juggling six. On the small island of North Ronaldsay off the northern coast of Scotland, that’s the case for many of the residents. With a population of just 50, everyone has to work a handful of jobs to keep the island afloat. Sarah Moore is part of North Ronaldsay’s trusted work force. She works as a mailwoman, home care worker, council clerk, airfield attendant, baggage handler, and firefighter. Oh, and did we mention she also keeps a flock of sheep? Sarah moved to the island after searching for quiet from the big city. In North Ronaldsay, she feels like she has found her purpose as a part of something bigger than herself—a caring community.
A new study published in Frontiers in Marine Science found that in more acidic ocean waters, sharks’ teeth were weak, brittle and more prone to breaking.
Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 73. Sunrise is 6:18 and sunset is 7:30, for 13 hours, 12 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 53.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Amateur mycologist Arne Martinson guides mushroom identification tours through northern Wisconsin, discovering unexpected colors among the leaves of the Northwoods, from iconic Amanita muscaria to the deadly destroying angel.
From Germany’s spaghetti-shaped sundae to Turkey’s stretchy, un-meltable delight, these aren’t your average scoops. Meet the makers behind two of the world’s most unusual ice creams, and discover why dessert is never quite what it seems. 00:00 – Eating Spaghetti Ice Cream in Germany 02:43 – This Turkish Ice Cream Doesn’t Melt
