Here in the Midwest, in America’s Dairyland, in a small college town surrounded by farms, Trumpism’s economic promises, never likely to do a body good, now slowly curdle: U.S. business groups say hundreds of thousands of American jobs are at stake as newly imposed trade barriers cause an abrupt slowdown of cross-border trade. The fallout is…
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Business, CDA, City, Local Government, Open Government, Public Records 2
Public Records Request of 6.26.18 (Grocery)
by JOHN ADAMS • • 6 Comments
Yesterday’s post addressed open government aspects of an unrecorded council meeting. See Public Records Request of 6.26.18 (Open Government). This post will consider a slide presentation from the unrecorded Whitewater Community Development Authority presentation of 6.19.18 on grocery store recruitment. Embedded immediately below is that slide presentation, and a link to the 5.19.16 Perkins supermarket…
Bad Ideas, City, Economy, Employment, Foxconn, Gov. Walker, Government Spending, State Capitalism, State Government, Trump
Foxconn’s Bait & Switch
by JOHN ADAMS • • 4 Comments
It’s a groundbreaking ceremony for (a much smaller) Foxconn today. This very morning one reads confirmation – yet again – that taxpayers’ billions for Foxconn are paying for a project that’s now a giant bait & switch. Rick Romell reports Foxconn scales back plans for its first factory in Mount Pleasant: The Foxconn Technology Group manufacturing…
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 6.20.18
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of seventy-four. Sunrise is 5:16 AM and sunset 8:36 PM, for 15h 20m 25s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 51.7% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the five hundred eighty-sixth day.Days since Trump’s election, with 11.9.16 as the first…
Babbittry, Bad Ideas, CDA, City, Development, Economy, Government Spending, Local Government, Marketing, Planning, Poverty, That Which Paved the Way, WEDC
A Candid Admission from the Whitewater CDA
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Sometimes, however rarely, even in places with the most stubborn boosterism, an official admits – wittingly or unwittingly – the failure of longstanding policy. Dave Carlson, executive director of the Whitewater Community Development Authority, is such an official. In a press release from March 27th, lauding a provision of the Trump tax bill, Carlson quotes…
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Daily Bread for 3.1.18
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. A new month in Whitewater begins with rain (and perhaps a bit of snow) with a high of forty-three. Sunrise is 6:28 AM and sunset 5:45 PM, for 11h 16m 18s of daytime. The moon is full, with 99.8% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the {tooltip}four hundred seventy-sixth day.{end-texte}Days since Trump’s…
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Daily Bread for 12.29.17
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be cloudy, with a high of fourteen, and an even chance of afternoon snow showers. Sunrise is 7:25 AM and sunset 4:29 PM, for 9h 04m 31s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 82.2% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the {tooltip}four hundred fourteenth day.{end-texte}Days since Trump’s…
City, Economy, Politics
The Winnowing Transition
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Today’s a good day to post about the transition through which Whitewater is now going. It’s a winnowing transition, in which many political and economic positions formerly popular are slowly being swept away. (There are, in fact, few leading public officials even from a decade ago still around. Those who are operate in conditions of…
Foxconn, Gov. Walker, Government Spending, State Capitalism, WEDC, Wisconsin
Foxconn? What’s Foxconn?
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
One reads that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker downplays Foxconn because deal not a sure campaign winner: MADISON – Scott Walker said the state would ink a $3 billion contract this week with Asian tech giant Foxconn Technology Group, even as he downplayed the deal and pointed to other jobs being created through his administration. As Walker launches…
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Daily Bread for 10.25.17
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Midweek in Whitewater will be increasingly sunny with a high of fifty-three. Sunrise is 7:21 AM and sunset 5:55 PM, for 10h 34m 13s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 28.5% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the {tooltip}three hundred fiftieth day.{end-texte}Days since Trump’s election, with 11.9.16 as the first day.{end-tooltip}…
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Daily Bread for 10.22.17
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of sixty-three. Sunrise is 7:17 AM and sunset 6 PM, for 10h 42m 19s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 7.5% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the {tooltip}three hundred forty-seventh day.{end-texte}Days since Trump’s election, with 11.9.16 as the first…
City, Culture
The Shallowness of Local Policymaking (and Some Policymakers)
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 8.28.17
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will see thunderstorms with a high of seventy-two. Sunrise is 6:16 AM and sunset 7:34 PM, for 13h 18m 29s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 42.5% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the {tooltip}two hundred ninety-second day.{end-texte}Days since Trump’s election, with 11.9.16 as the first day.{end-tooltip}…
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Daily Bread for 8.12.17
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of seventy-five. Sunrise is 5:59 AM and sunset 8:00 PM, for 14h 00m 57s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 76.5% of its visible disk illuminated. Today is the {tooltip}two hundred seventy-sixth day.{end-texte}Days since Trump’s election, with 11.9.16 as the…