Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of fifty-one. Sunrise is 7:10 AM and sunset 6:10 PM, for 11h 00m 14s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 93.5% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Parks & Rec Board meets today at 5:30 PM. On this day in…
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Daily Bread for 10.13.19
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of forty-four. Sunrise is 7:06 AM and sunset 6:15 PM, for 11h 08m 40s of daytime. The moon is full with 99.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1775, a resolution of the Continental Congress creates a Continental Navy. Recommended for…
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Daily Bread for 10.12.19
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Daily Bread for 10.11.19
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will see rain with a high of sixty. Sunrise is 7:04 AM and sunset 6:18 PM, for 11h 14m 18s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 94.7% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1939, Pres. Roosevelt receives the Einstein–Szilárd letter, warning that Germany might…
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Daily Bread for 10.5.19
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Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of fifty-nine. Sunrise is 6:57 AM and sunset 6:28 PM, for 11h 31m 25s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 47.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 2017, the New York Times publishes its investigation into allegations against…
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Daily Bread for 9.29.19
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Daily Bread for 9.15.19
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Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of seventy-seven. Sunrise is 6:35 AM and sunset 7:04 PM, for 12h 28m 59s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 98.3% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1950, United Nations forces under the command of Gen. MacArthur land…
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Daily Bread for 6.16.19
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Daily Bread for 6.9.19
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Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will see scattered showers with a high of seventy-three. Sunrise is 5:16 AM and sunset 8:32 PM, for 15h 16m 12s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 42.1% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1973, Secretariat wins the Triple Crown. Recommended for reading…
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Scrounging Through the Junk Drawer
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When UW-Whitewater’s enrollment was expanding, and so student housing was in demand, some residents opposed to more rental properties rushed to local government in a futile effort to hold back the student tide, through zoning or code enforcement. Now that there’s a worry that student enrollment is declining, and rental properties are less in demand,…
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Daily Bread for 3.9.19
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will rainy in the afternoon with a daytime high of thirty-eight. Sunrise is 6:15 AM and sunset 5:54 PM, for 11h 38m 49s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 8.1% of its visible disk illuminated. There is a scheduled forum for common council candidates at 10 AM,…
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Dangers Imagined and Real
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Taylor Lorenz writes of unjustified worries about the ‘Momo Challenge’ in Momo Is Not Trying to Kill Children (‘Like eating Tide Pods and snorting condoms, the Momo challenge is a viral hoax’). Lorenz has made a career of observing and reporting on social media trends, and reassures that On Tuesday afternoon, a Twitter user going…
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Half-Right About the WISGOP
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Thomas Edsall, writing in the New York Times, quotes Jerry Taylor and Will Wilkinson of the Niskanen Center think tank on Republicans’ political economics. Two quotes from Taylor Wilkinson stand out – one right, and one wrong (at least wrong for Wisconsin). From Will Wilkinson, a view of cultural issues’ importance: The G.O.P.’s success in…
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The Beauty & Opportunity of Ordinary Time
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In the calendar of the Church, Ordinary Time is that part of the year between the seasons of Advent, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost. Perhaps it seems less momentous to some, but Ordinary Time is no less important, offering as it does “time for growth and maturation.” Far from being a lesser time, I find it beautiful…