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Boo! Scariest Things in Whitewater, 2021

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Here’s the fifteenth annual FREE WHITEWATER list of the scariest things in Whitewater. (The 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 editions are available for comparison.) The list runs in reverse order, from mildly scary to truly frightening. 10. Feedin’ Wildlife.  I didn’t know — but local officials claim to…

City, Culture, Daily Bread, Local Government, Politics, School District

Daily Bread for 10.25.21: Late in the Day Even for Sociability

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Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 52.  Sunrise is 7:21 AM and sunset 5:55 PM for 10h 34m 08s of daytime.  The moon is a waning gibbous with 79.9% of its visible disk illuminated.  Whitewater’s Urban Forestry Commission meets at 4:30 PM, the Community Development Authority Seed Capital Committee meets…

Daily Bread, Education, Freedom of Speech, Gender, School District, Sexual Orientation

Daily Bread for 10.16.21: Waukesha School District bans LGBTQ+ and other signs

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Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 58.  Sunrise is 7:10 AM and sunset 6:09 PM for 10h 58m 48s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing gibbous with 83.7% of its visible disk illuminated.  On this day in 1780, the Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing…

Local Government, Medicine, Public Health, School District

Daily Bread for 9.27.21: Good Public Health Policy is True Optimism

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Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 86.  Sunrise is 6:48 AM and sunset 6:41 PM for 11h 52m 56s of daytime.  The moon is a waning gibbous with 64.9% of its visible disk illuminated.  The Whitewater Urban Forestry Commission meets at 4:30 PM, Downtown Whitewater’s Board of Directors meets…

City, Daily Bread, Economy, Poverty, School District, Technology

Daily Bread for 8.16.21: Broadband Gaps, Right Here in Whippet City

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Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 84. Sunrise is 6:03 AM and sunset 7:54 PM, for 13h 50m 37s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing gibbous with 59.7% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Equal Opportunities Commission meets at 5 PM, the Community Development Authority at 5:30 PM,…

City, Culture, Democrats, Local Government, Politics, School District, University, Whitewater's Local Politics 2021

Whitewater’s Local Politics 2021: The Subcultural City

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This is the sixth in a series on Whitewater’s local politics of 2021. There’s no politically predominant group in Whitewater. Strictly speaking, a subculture implies a dominant culture, but it’s less dramatic to describe Whitewater as several subcultures than as balkanized. One might call the city multicultural, but that term often implies an acceptance of…

City, Local Government, Politics, School District, Whitewater's Local Politics 2021

Whitewater’s Local Politics 2021: The Kinds of Conservatives in Whitewater

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This is the second in a series on Whitewater’s local politics of 2021. There are three principal kinds of conservatives in Whitewater. There are more kinds than this, of course, as there are many kinds of cats within the family Felidae; it’s enough for now to focus on the most common species within that family.…

Boosterism, CDA, City, Culture, Economics, Economy, Local Government, Politics, School District, That Which Paved the Way, University

Local Politics Hasn’t Been Merely ‘Local’ for Years

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Over at the Wisconsin Examiner, Henry Redman writes (with concern) that All politics is national (‘Candidates for local office are ignoring community issues, instead highlighting national culture wars’). First, Redman’s case, then a few remarks. Woodman [Kyle Woodman, a Republican running for Eau Claire’s city council] is part of a mostly conservative group of candidates…

City, Disinformation, Economy, Employment, Poverty

Unemployment Imagined and Real

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National unemployment figures have been undercounting the true number of those unemployed. Rachel Siegel reports Fed chair: Unemployment rate was closer to 10 percent, not 6.3 percent, in January: Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell said Wednesday that the unemployment rate in January was “close to 10 percent,” significantly higher than the 6.3 percent rate…

Babbittry, Blogging, Boosterism, Culture, Disinformation, Freedom of Speech, Mendacity, Public Relations, Rhetoric

The Power of Refutation

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Laura Hazard Owen writes When’s the best time to correct fake news? After someone’s already read it, apparently: Debunking > prebunking. If you want someone to not believe that false or misleading headline they just read, when’s the best time to correct it? We hear a lot about inoculating people against fake news or “prebunking”…

Bad Ideas, Boosterism, Budget, Education, University, UW System

Tommy Thompson @ UW-Whitewater: Day Late, Dollar Short

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Former governor and current UW System president Tommy Thompson spoke at a UW-Whitewater Faculty Senate meeting on Tuesday. Thompson addressed a campus that confronts statewide funding reductions, a tuition freeze, repeated administrative scandals and failures over the last decade, a decline in the conventional student-age demographic, and competitive pressures from other universities. For all these…

Babbittry, Boosterism, City, Conflicts of Interest, Culture, Ethics, Local Government, Never Trump, That Which Paved the Way, Trump, Trumpism

Before Man & Movement, That Which Paved the Way

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Trump did not spring from the ground; he did not fall from the stars. Neither horticulture nor astrophysics played any role in his rise. Before Trump and Trumpism, there were towns and cities into which he and his movement found receptive audiences. Patients already ill are often susceptible of worse maladies. So it has been…