Good morning, Whitewater. The second day of the year will be, for Whitewater, sunny with a high of twenty-nine. Sunrise is 7:25 and sunset 4:32, for 9h 07m 11s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 46.7% of its visible disk illuminated. One can be sure that a Star Wars tide has swept…
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Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 8.5.15
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning, Whitewater. We’ll have a mostly sunny Wednesday in Whitewater, with a high of eighty-two. Sunrise is 5:51 and sunset 8:10, for 14h 19m 15s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 67.8% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets at 5 PM today. Google has a doodle on…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 8.2.15
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning, Whitewater. Sunday in town will be partly cloudy, with a high of ninety, and strong scattered thunderstorms in the late afternoon. When a bison at a national park attacks a tourist, as happens now and again, whose fault is that? In the FW poll for Friday, 77.27% of respondents said the park visitors…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 6.19.15
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Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 6.18.15
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning, Whitewater. Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of seventy-eight. Sunrise is 5:15 and sunset 8:36, for 15h 20m 15s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 3.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1948, Columbia Records unveils two versions of an LP: CBS Laboratories head…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 6.17.15
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Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 6.16.15
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Good morning, Whitewater. Tuesday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of seventy-seven. Sunrise is 5:15 and sunset 8:35, for 15h 19m 48s of daytime. We’ve a new moon. Common Council meets tonight at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1832, during the Black Hawk War, troops under Henry Dodge win their first…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 6.15.15
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning, Whitewater. Monday will bring thunderstorms and a high of seventy-eight to Whitewater. Sunrise is 5:15 and sunset 8:35, for 15h 19m 29s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 1.5% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1902, what was to become one of the most famous rail lines…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 3.27.15
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Education, Elections, School District
On School Board Candidate Jim Stewart
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
Jim Stewart, as you may have read from his own news site the Whitewater Banner, is running for school board. He last sat on that board about ten years ago, and for twenty-odd years before that. More recently, he was a member of Whitewater’s Common Council. His candidacy in 2015 is a puzzle, three times…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 3.9.15
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Good morning, Whitewater. Our first second week of March begins with sunny skies and a high of forty-six. Sunrise is 7:15 and sunset 6:54, for 11h 38m 36s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 88.3% of its visible disk illuminated. (Update: It’s the second week of the month, of course. Too silly…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 3.1.15
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning, Whitewater. March arrives, with (relatively) warmer temperatures – our high today will be twenty five, with a likelihood of flurries. Sunrise is 6:29 and sunset 5:44, for 11h 15m 31s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 84.8% of its visible disk illuminated. A Washington State motorist contended that he struck…
Corporate Welfare, Government Spending, Press
Does the Gazette‘s Editorialist Think that Janesville’s Residents Can’t Count?
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
All around, daily print newspapers are in decline. For most of them, there will be no more than several years of life left. By 2020, almost all of them will be gone. (See, along these lines, Clay Shirky’s Last Call: The end of the printed newspaper.) If a newspaper is at ideological odds with ordinary…
Corporate Welfare
Crony Capitalism: Wrong, Erroneous, and Laughable
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Across America, from among left, small-government conservatives, and libertarians, a coalition now works to turn the tide against crony-capitalism and white-collar welfare. They will succeed, as America’s political tradition will reject the manipulation of the country’s political-economy for the selfish, rigged ends of well-fed men. Sometimes, these critiques against crony capitalism will be deservedly severe;…