Good morning. Christmas Eve in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of forty-eight. Sunrise is 7:23 AM and sunset 4:25 PM, for 9h 02m 04s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 3.3% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1968, Apollo 8 becomes the first crewed spacecraft to…
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Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 9.11.19
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will see scattered thundershowers with a high of eighty-three. Sunrise is 6:30 AM and sunset 7:11 PM, for 12h 40m 27s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 93.6% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the eighteenth anniversary of the September 11th Al Qaida attacks on the…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 8.29.19
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny, with a chance of late afternoon thundershowers, and a high of eighty-two. Sunrise is 6:17 AM and sunset 7:34 PM, for 13h 17m 04s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 1.2% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Joint Review Board meets today at 1:30 PM.…
Babbittry, Boosterism, CDA, Foxconn, Mendacity, Reasoning, Science/Nature, That Which Paved the Way, Waste Digesters, WEDC
Junk Reasoning Isn’t Simply a Problem at the Top
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Helena Bottemiller Evich reports ‘It feels like something out of a bad sci-fi movie’ (‘A top climate scientist quit USDA, following others who say Trump has politicized science’): One of the nation’s leading climate change scientists is quitting the Agriculture Department in protest over the Trump administration’s efforts to bury his groundbreaking study about how…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 5.20.19
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Bad Ideas, CDA, Corporate Welfare, Foxconn, Government Spending, State Capitalism, State Government, WEDC, Wisconsin
Foxconn: Heckuva Supply Chain They Have There…
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Not long ago, the executive director of the Whitewater Community Development Authority used meeting time to gush over the supply-chain possibilities Foxconn might present for Whitewater. The very idea is laughable; that his remarks were not met with peals of laughter shows how ignorant or confused the members of that public body truly are. See…
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…
Bad Ideas, CDA, Corporate Welfare, Demographics, Development, Economy, Government Spending, Laws/Regulations, Local Government, Marketing, Poverty, State Capitalism, That Which Paved the Way, WEDC
Two Truths of Whitewater’s Economy
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
There are two truths of Whitewater’s economy, each fundamental and each a refutation to the last generation’s myth-making. For today, it’s enough to list the two fundamental truths. Large Public Projects Haven’t Overcome Weak Household-Income Levels in Whitewater. This is true both in aggregate, and for age brackets (children, adults 35-64) not representative…
Business, CDA, City, Development, Economy, Local Government, Poverty
A National Study on Big-City Economic Development
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
What’s the relationship, if any, between economic development and inclusion? A study from the Brookings Institution (Metro Monitor 2018) suggests that for large metropolitan areas, there may be one. (I’ll not try to fit these data into a local container. That’s why there’s no ‘The Scene from Whitewater Wisconsin’ logo attached to this post.) Here’s…
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Daily Bread for 2.6.18
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater be mostly sunny with a high of fourteen. Sunrise is 7:02 AM and sunset 5:15 PM, for 10h 13m 06s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 60.2% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the {tooltip}four hundred fifty-third day.{end-texte}Days since Trump’s election, with 11.9.16 as the first…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 1.19.18
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of forty. Sunrise is 7:19 AM and sunset 4:51 PM, for 9h 32m 18s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 5.7% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the {tooltip}four hundred thirty-fifth day.{end-texte}Days since Trump’s election, with 11.9.16 as the…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 12.24.17
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Christmas Eve in Whitewater will be cloudy with snow showers and a high of twenty-three. Sunrise is 7:23 AM and sunset 4:26 PM, for 9h 02m 12s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 32% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the {tooltip}four hundred tenth day.{end-texte}Days since Trump’s election, with 11.9.16 as…
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Daily Bread for 11.26.17
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of fifty. Sunrise is 7:01 AM and sunset 4:23 PM, for 9h 22m 10s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 48.9% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the {tooltip}three hundred eighty-second day.{end-texte}Days since Trump’s election, with 11.9.16 as the…
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Daily Bread for 11.16.17
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Here in Whitewater, we’ll have an increasingly sunny day with a high of forty. Sunrise is 6:49 AM and sunset 4:30 PM, for 9h 40m 45s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 3.3% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the {tooltip}three hundred seventy-second day.{end-texte}Days since Trump’s election, with 11.9.16 as the…