In Whitewater, by press release (twice), one can read about the supposed benefits of the Trump tax plan. The Whitewater Community Development Authority’s executive director, Dave Carlson, was quick to push a portion of the plan as good for Whitewater. In doing so, he conceded what anyone observing Whitewater with care and concern already knew:…
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CDA, Press Release
On the Whitewater CDA’s Press Release (A Picture Reply Is Worth a Thousand Words)
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Not long ago, on March 27th, the executive director of Whitewater’s Community Development Authority, Dave Carlson, issued a press release lauding the efforts of Donald J. Trump, Scott Walker, Treasury Sec. Steven Mnuchin, and James Sensenbrenner on a part of the Trump tax bill. A follow-up release was published in the Banner about two weeks later. The…
City, Congress, Politics
A Better Alternative for Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Local readers may have heard, as I have, that Whitewater’s Community Development Authority chairman recently thanked Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner for federal legislation. Sensenbrenner, for those unfamiliar, is a career office-holding septuagenarian multi-millionaire situated far from the city, serving in a gerrymandered district. (Sensenbrenner, whose only time is behind-the-times, once responded to concerns about online…
Local Government, Paul Ryan, Trump
What Paul Ryan’s Departure Means for Whitewater
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Paul Ryan hasn’t been Whitewater’s congressman since the last gerrymandering. We’ve faraway septuagenarian multi-millionaire James Sensenbrenner now. Ryan, however, has been more powerful than Sensenbrenner ever could be. Janesville’s Ryan has held greater political power than anyone in our town, to be sure, ever has or ever will. And yet, and yet, Ryan’s done. If…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 4.30.17
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be rainy, with an occasional thunderstorm, and a high of forty-eight. Sunrise is 5:48 AM and sunset 7:55 PM, for 14h 06m 36s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 21.9% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the {tooltip}one hundred seventy-third day.{end-texte}Days since Trump’s election, with 11.9.16 as the…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 4.16.17
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Easter Sunday in Whitewater will be increasingly sunny with a high of sixty-nine. Sunrise is 6:09 AM and sunset 7:39 PM, for 13h 29m 40s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 76.4% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the {tooltip}one hundred fifty-ninth day.{end-texte}Days since Trump’s election, with 11.9.16 as the…