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Daily Bread for 3.29.14

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Good morning.

Saturday in Whitewater will be a day of gradual clearing, with a high of forty-four. Sunrise is 6:44 AM and sunset is 7:18 PM today. The moon’s a waning crescent, with two precent of its visible disk illuminated.

Birds, and especially large numbers in flight, are often fascinating. In the video below, Starlings at Sunset, one can see traces of the paths of flight they take.

Starlings at Sunset from Dennis Hlynsky on Vimeo.

On this day in 1865, Gen. Grant begins the Appomattox Campaign:

…the final campaign of the Civil War begins in Virginia when Union troops under General Ulysses S. Grant move against the Confederate trenches around Petersburg. General Robert E. Lee’s outnumbered Rebels were soon forced to evacuate the city and begin a desperate race west.

Eleven months earlier, Grant moved his army across the Rapidan River in northern Virginia and began the bloodiest campaign of the war. For six weeks, Lee and Grant fought along an arc that swung east of the Confederate capital at Richmond. They engaged in some of the conflict’s bloodiest battles at Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor before settling into trenches for a siege of Petersburg, 25 miles south of Richmond. The trenches eventually stretched all the way to Richmond, and during the ensuing months the armies glowered at each other across a no man’s land. Periodically, Grant launched attacks against sections of the Rebel defenses, but Lee’s men managed to fend them off.

Time was running out for Lee, though. His army was dwindling in size to about 55,000, while Grant’s continued to grow–the Army of the Potomac now had more than 125,000 men ready for service. On March 25, Lee attempted to split the Union lines when he attacked Fort Stedman, a stronghold along the Yankee trenches. His army was beaten back, and he lost nearly 5,000 men. On March 29, Grant seized the initiative, sending 12,000 men past the Confederates’ left flank and threatening to cut Lee’s escape route from Petersburg. Fighting broke out there, several miles southwest of the city. Lee’s men could not arrest the Federal advance. On April 1, the Yankees struck at Five Forks, soundly defeating the Rebels and leaving Lee no alternative. He pulled his forces from their trenches and raced west, followed by Grant. It was a race that even the great Lee could not win. He surrendered his army on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House.

City, Local Government, Politics

Positive Perspectives for Local Politics

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Whitewater’s now seeing what it’s like to experience a negative and deceptive campaign, but our city is better than that. To cleanse the palate, consider what politics should and can be.

Respect for facts and sound reasoning. People are naturally smart and reasonable, not just a few, but many, in every part of a community.

Those aren’t merely happy words, but a fundamental truth: society is not the work of a clique, but of vast numbers of people engaged in productive, mutually beneficial transactions every day.

In a marketplace of ideas, dodgy and deceptive claims are refutable, as one can draw on better works to cast aside erroneous ones.

America is in the forefront of all the world in science, technology, economics, and art. We’re that way because we have a society open to diverse talents.

Our high standards in other fields are no less applicable to our politics. Success elsewhere should encourage us to greater success in political life.

Looking clearly. Observation – valuable observation – in politics is no different from observation required to make a major purchase or decide on a place to live: looking honestly at circumstances, then deciding what they mean.

A person looking at life in Whitewater may see things he both likes and hopes will change, and at a minimum he or she should see simple facts the way most other people do. (The same white house, the same gray dog, the same green tree, etc.).

By contrast, someone who tells you that life’s not changed in Whitewater since 1958, or even 1978, isn’t noticing life as it truly is. On the contrary, that view is a good bit wrong, and a good bit strange, too.

We can, and should, look carefully and accurately.

Flexibility. A few decisions involve liberty directly, but most involve policy differences at the margins.

Saying what one will never do, in advance, on ordinary policy is profoundly ignorant – it presumes to see facts and alternatives that are not immediately known.

In fact – as a candidate who truly understood economics would know (and many people understand intuitively) – economic decisions are made at the margin. For buyers, one weighs a possible purchase against alternatives (opportunity cost), and for sellers, one weighs the benefit of additional expenditures for more units produced (marginal cost).

Those who decide economic alternatives presumptively are economically confused, and honestly are providing voters or clients only mediocre service.

One should be open to possibilities; anything less is unworthy of others’ confidence.

Ignoring status. We are a people, and a city of people, who are equals in liberty under law. We don’t need dignitaries, VIPs, majesties, or self-appointed poobahs. A few will try to use supposed status to cajole people into doing what they want them to do.

Ignore these unprincipled appeals to status – we are all equals.

Knowing credentials don’t trump careful, ongoing study. Good and careful work is good in-and-of itself, not through an appeal to credentials. If what someone writes is strong, it’s strong on the basis of reasoning and composition, not the author’s credentials (or vain declaration of them).

Similarly, someone who signs every statement with credentials can’t make shoddy reasoning and writing better by appending PhD after his or her name. PhD, MBA, JD, MD, NFL, CBS, whatever – they don’t make poor work good, and can’t make good work better.

Being one’s own man or woman. Liberty and equality – the heritage of our vast, continental republic – are best enjoyed by people as individuals.

What a sad thing it would be for a free person to set aside his or her opportunities to become another’s mere catspaw.

We can turn away from that path, reasoning, writing, and choosing as men and women standing on their own feet. The great men and women of our civilization cared for others as bold and independent leaders, on the foundation of their own individuality.

We can do the same, by their positive example.

Daily Bread

Daily Bread for 3.28.14

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Good morning.

Friday brings a day of gradual clearing to Whitewater, with a high of forty-five. Sunrise today is 6:44 AM and sunset is 7:14 PM.

On this day in 1979, a reactor overheats at Three Mile Island:

The most serious nuclear accident in United States history takes place at the Three Mile Island plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on this day in 1979, when one of the reactors overheats. Fortunately, a catastrophic meltdown was averted and there were no deaths or direct injuries from the accident.

The Three Mile Island plant had begun operations just months earlier on December 28, 1978. Very shortly after operations began, problems arose. It was 3:58 a.m. on March 28 when a pump that directed steam to the plant’s electric turbines stopped working, causing a water circulation pump to break down. Without the water, the temperature of the reactor rose dramatically and a relief valve opened to stop the pressure from building to dangerous levels. Unfortunately, the valve then would not close.

The plant operators, with no experience in emergencies, made key errors. Another valve was opened to allow water from the nuclear system into a waste tank. But this water ruptured the tank and radioactive water flooded into the reactor. Even worse, an operator shut off the automatic core-cooling system. The result of all these events and mistakes was that radioactive steam poured out of the plant. Additionally, radioactive water had to be released into the Susquehanna River. However, area authorities were not notified of these events until nearly three hours later.

It’s March Madness across America, and below is Puzzability‘s Friday game in a series for the week with that same name:

This Week’s Game — March 24-28
March Madness
You can fill in your brackets every day for our little tournament. Each answer in this week’s trivia quiz is a name, title, or phrase that includes the letters in the word MARCH together, but out of order.
Example:
What song was Culture Club’s biggest hit, and its only song to reach #1 in the United States?
Answer:
“Ka[RMA CH]ameleon”
What to Submit:
Submit the name, title, or phrase, with the MARCH section in brackets (as “Ka[RMA CH]ameleon” in the example), for your answer.
Friday, March 28
What comedian and actor won the first Celebrity Jeopardy! tournament in 1992?

City, Economy, Local Government, Politics

Mr. Yvarra’s Campaign: Even More Deceptive Than Before

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I’ve written previously about the contested race in Whitewater’s Fourth Council District, an election choice between Lynn Binnie and Paul Yvarra. See, on this topic, On Whitewater’s 4th District Council Race, and (about the Yvarra campaign) A Dodgy and Deceptive Campaign.

In a statement to the Gazette, for their comprehensive election series, Paul Yvarra has now offered the single worst, most false and deceptive claim anyone has made in Whitewater’s recent political history.

(In my prior posts, from a position of independent commentary, I wrote in support of Lynn Binnie’s re-election. Occasional policy differences that we’ve had don’t change in the slightest my view that he’s well-deserving of re-election. Considering how his opponent has campaigned, that’s more true than ever.)

Even a few days ago, one might have supposed that Paul Yvarra wouldn’t be able to issue any more false, deceptive, or error-riddled statements than he already had. As it turns out, that would have both underestimated and overestimated Mr. Yvarra.

I’ll offer Mr. Yvarra’s beyond-the-pale statement, and then debunk it.

The Gazette asked both candidates to answer the question, “How important is the development and growth of downtown Whitewater to you? How would you address this?”

Here’s the published answer from Mr. Yvarra:

Yvarra: Downtown development is crucial to a vibrant Whitewater. Unfortunately, one of the major tools for funding development in Whitewater is tax increment financing, which is declared stressed. TIF No. 4 helped subsidize a development cost for my opponent’s employer. As my opponent and his employer did not meet their promises, this is one of the reasons for the distress classification. In January 2011, my opponent testified before the Community Development Authority for the distress designation. As a result, the developer’s promises were not met. I would work to make sure that such promises would be kept.

Mr. Yvarra’s claim is false and blatant in its deception.

As readers will see in the Gazette story (subscription required), Lynn Binnie works as administrator of operations at Fairhaven Senior Services.

I’ve written about and against tax incremental financing for years, and yet as a sincere critic I can write – honestly and confidently – that

(1) Mr. Binnie was not responsible for the distressed status of Tax Incremental District 4,

(2) Fairhaven was not responsible for the distressed status of TID 4,

(3) There’s no truth to the claim that Fairhaven, of all places, hasn’t made proper payments or kept promises over TID 4, and

(4) every knowledgeable person in this town knows that TID 4’s shortfall absolutely, positively was not because of Fairhaven.

On the contrary, as every reasonable person in Whitewater does know, Fairhaven represents an economic gain to the community. Our city benefits by its presence and its work.

(Quick note – as I have no professional or social connection to either candidate in this race, so I also have no connection to Fairhaven.)

Candidate Yvarra plainly doesn’t understand even the most simple aspects of tax incremental financing. Many people talked about what to do when it was clear that TID 4 was struggling, and how to react to that situation, but that doesn’t mean they were responsible for the situation, for goodness’ sake.

Paul Yvarra’s contentions in this regard are not just false, not just deceptive, but strangely and bizarrely distant from the truth. (It’s inescapable, too, that Mr. Yvarra’s flyers and candidate statement to the Gazette are also littered with jumbled terminology & malapropisms usually indicative of someone who has neither read nor thought with comprehension about a topic.)

For years I have argued for – and for many more years to come I will argue for – a respect for facts, data, and sound reasoning in politics, economics, and fiscal policy.

Paul Yvarra’s campaign demonstrates a reckless disregard of facts and sound analysis that’s beyond anything we’ve likely seen in town politics.

It’s an embarrassment to this city; thousands of smart, sharp residents deserve better – much better – than this.

Want to see what better looks like? Here’s Lynn Binnie’s answer to the Gazette‘s question about caring for Whitewater’s downtown:

Binnie: Downtown’s vitality is important. I supported the $20,000 contribution to downtown Whitewater in the 2014 budget. Additionally, we provide in-kind support for events. The city can’t do much more. As business owners support their organization and citizens patronize the businesses and donate to downtown Whitewater, progress will continue to be made.

Well said.

That strikes me as profoundly right – contributions and efforts from different sources (municipal, private businesses, patrons) can together help our downtown’s economy. It’s a combined effort.

Whitewater may be watching the worst campaign in memory from Paul Yvarra, but fortunately the 4th District also has a reasonable and sound option in Lynn Binnie.

Tomorrow: Positive Perspectives for Local Politics.

Daily Bread

Daily Bread for 3.27.14

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Good morning.

We’ll have a rainy Thursday, with perhaps a bit of snow mixed in, with a high later today of forty-four. No accumulation is expected.

On 3.27.1865, a meeting of Union leaders:

On this day in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln meets with Union generals Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman at City Point, Virginia, to plot the last stages of the Civil War.

Lincoln went to Virginia just as Grant was preparing to attack Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s lines around Petersburg and Richmond, an assault that promised to end the siege that had dragged on for 10 months. Meanwhile, Sherman’s force was steamrolling northward through the Carolinas. The three architects of Union victory convened for the first time as a group–Lincoln and Sherman had never met—at Grant’s City Point headquarters at the general-in-chief’s request.

As part of the trip, Lincoln went to the Petersburg lines and witnessed a Union bombardment and a small skirmish. Prior to meeting with his generals, the president also reviewed troops and visited wounded soldiers. Once he sat down with Grant and Sherman, Lincoln expressed concern that Lee might escape Petersburg and flee to North Carolina, where he could join forces with Joseph Johnston to forge a new Confederate army that could continue the war for months. Grant and Sherman assured the president the end was in sight. Lincoln emphasized to his generals that any surrender terms must preserve the Union war aims of emancipation and a pledge of equality for the freed slaves.

After meeting with Admiral David Dixon Porter on March 28, the president and his two generals went their separate ways. Less than four weeks later, Grant and Sherman had secured the surrender of the Confederacy.

Here’s the Thursday game in Puzzability‘s March Madness series:

This Week’s Game — March 24-28
March Madness
You can fill in your brackets every day for our little tournament. Each answer in this week’s trivia quiz is a name, title, or phrase that includes the letters in the word MARCH together, but out of order.
Example:
What song was Culture Club’s biggest hit, and its only song to reach #1 in the United States?
Answer:
“Ka[RMA CH]ameleon”
What to Submit:
Submit the name, title, or phrase, with the MARCH section in brackets (as “Ka[RMA CH]ameleon” in the example), for your answer.
Thursday, March 27
What bland cookie-like snack was invented in 1829 by a Presbyterian minister as part of his radical diet meant to suppress sexual urges?

Local Government, Open Government

The Daily Union (Rightly) Forges Ahead

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In nearby Fort Atkinson, that city’s municipal manager, Evelyn Johnson, recently resigned after somewhat over a year in her role.

The Daily Union submitted to the City of Fort Atkinson an open records request, to learn more about her departure from a public position. In reply, Fort Atkinson’s city attorney, Chris Rogers, wrote denying the request.

The paper – of whom I have been sometimes critical for tepid coverage of government officials – has wisely and rightly decided to press on with a subsequent request.

Good for them – the people of the city they serve deserve to know the circumstances of their own city manager’s departure. I don’t know what the paper or its residents may learn, but they’ve a right to know.

In similar circumstances in our own city, I would advance a public records request of this kind (although it goes without saying that neither I nor others in Whitewater would want these circumstances here).

Advancing a request this important – residents deserve full and accurate information from their government – is worth supporting and defending, even at law if necessary.

This shouldn’t be – ever – a matter of delay or concealment – people deserve an open accounting of how their representatives, appointed and elected, serve in office.

Daily Bread

Daily Bread for 3.26.14

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Good morning.

Wednesday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of thirty-eight, with south winds from 10 to 15 mph in the morning.

Later this afternoon, the Community Development Authority board is scheduled to meet at 5 PM.

On this day in 1953, a medical accomplishment becomes public:

On March 26, 1953, American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk announces on a national radio show that he has successfully tested a vaccine against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease of polio. In 1952–an epidemic year for polio–there were 58,000 new cases reported in the United States, and more than 3,000 died from the disease. For promising eventually to eradicate the disease, which is known as “infant paralysis” because it mainly affects children, Dr. Salk was celebrated as the great doctor-benefactor of his time.

In Wisconsin history on this day in 1881, a famous mascot dies in an accident:

1881 – Old Abe Dies
On this date Old Abe, famous Civil War mascot, died from injuries sustained during a fire at the State Capitol. Old Abe was the mascot for Company C, an Eau Claire infantry unit that was part of the Wisconsin 8th Regiment. During the Capitol fire of 1881, smoke engulfed Old Abe’s cage. One of his feathers survived and is in the Wisconsin Historical Museum. [Source: Wisconsin Lore and Legends, pg. 51]

Puzzability‘s March Madness series is at its halfway point:

This Week’s Game — March 24-28
March Madness
You can fill in your brackets every day for our little tournament. Each answer in this week’s trivia quiz is a name, title, or phrase that includes the letters in the word MARCH together, but out of order.
Example:
What song was Culture Club’s biggest hit, and its only song to reach #1 in the United States?
Answer:
“Ka[RMA CH]ameleon”
What to Submit:
Submit the name, title, or phrase, with the MARCH section in brackets (as “Ka[RMA CH]ameleon” in the example), for your answer.
Wednesday, March 26
At a pivotal point in the film Shine, what composer’s difficult Piano Concerto No. 3 is performed in competition?

City, Elections, Politics

A Dodgy and Deceptive Campaign

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Of our local elections, with a spring general election next Tuesday, one may confidently say two things. First, there is one contested Whitewater election on the ballot, between incumbent Lynn Binnie and Paul Yvarra for the 4th Council District.

Second, and sadly just as true, the Yvarra campaign is running the most error-prone and deceptive campaign this city has seen in many years. Through a series of flyers that he grandly labels as ‘position papers,’ Paul Yvarra offers a concoction of false claims, many of which are deceptive by implication or omission, with other points demonstrating economic ignorance.

Error alone is bad; deceptive implications are far worse.

Not along ago, I wrote in support of Lynn Binnie’s candidacy, and it was an independent endorsement; I have no professional or social connection to either candidate in this race. For many years this has been a website of independent commentary from Whitewater; it will be a website of independent commentary for far more years to come.

I’ll address the four flyers that I’ve seen, although Mr. Yvarra may have more or will produce more, assuming that he has a reservoir of additional confusion from which to draw. The flyers to which I am referring are entitled, “Time for a New Direction,” “Single Family Housing Position Paper,” “Economic Development Position Paper,” and “Senior Position Paper.”

Housing. It’s here that Mr. Yvarra works several dodgy statements, intended to sow worry. He writes about a supposed ‘big box development’ that he contends was meant for the area of Indian Mound and Walworth, but there’s been no such plan, and his claim shows that either (1) he doesn’t understand the planning process, or (2) doesn’t care and will simply advance any mere rumor. The contention that neighbors rose up “in mass” [sic – it’s en masse] against the proposal is fantastical.

Similarly, Mr. Yvarra distorts the March 10, 2010 Planning Commission session about a residential property development to which he objects; the project didn’t receive funding, but it also had no – that’s no as in none – opposition at the meetings at which it was discussed.

This was, by the way, a well-regarded and carefully considered proposal. Candidate Yvarra is free to consider it less so, but not a single person in this town of fifteen thousand – including Mr. Yvarra – spoke at a meeting in opposition.

Paul Yvarra contends, more than once in his flyers, that he’s opposed to low-income housing in this city, and he worries that low-income housing will become student housing.

Let’s be blunt: there’s no program to fund additional low-income residential housing in this city, and pushing rumors about possible developments that simply aren’t planned or truly possible is designed to create worry among homeowners that’s unfounded, and that’s cynical.

Notably, Lynn Binnie has never advocated that approach, in any event. Never.

I’ve written more often about poverty in this city, I think, than anyone else writing or speaking on that local topic. Although Mr. Yvarra professes to be concerned about the poor, he’s not above scapegoating them.

Almost as bad, he seems to think that insisting on single-family housing, as a political position, will make it happen. Virtually the whole community would like more single-family housing for Whitewater. Those homes don’t appear, however, because a candidate insists on them, or argues against other kinds of homes.

If that were true, people would simply declare or wish themselves into new conditions.

Say what one might about the Yvarra campaign, but it’s hit upon a new product: Magical Thinking for Local Candidates™.

Team Yvarra’s housing claims are false, and evidence of economic error and misunderstanding.

Economics. It’s in Candidate Yvarra’s economic position paper that one finds real confusion. He argues that one has to fix the problem in “TIF 4” [sic], but his solution is no effective answer at all.

(It’s evident that Mr. Yvarra hasn’t read widely – if at all – about tax incremental financing, and he repeatedly jumbles tax incremental financing, the municipal funding concept, with tax incremental districts, the actual parts of a city where that concept might be employed. It’s TID 4, for example, not TIF 4.)

I see that TID 4’s distressed status is a problem, but I’m also committed to a sound solution and a fair accounting of what went wrong. Councilmember Lynn Binnie wasn’t even in office when TID 4 was created, for goodness’ sake – these weren’t his plans gone awry.

Significantly, Mr. Yvarra seems to think that selling off land in the industrial park is the solution to a distressed TID (distressed is both a condition and a designation under Wisconsin law).

That’s a limited option, useful but hardly a panacea. It’s easy to see why it’s limited: anytime a candidate insists that something (in this case public property) must be sold soon or quickly, he tells prospective buyers that, in effect, they can have it cheaply, and at under-market prices.

Mr. Yvarra, a candidate who claims to know & care so very much about single-family housing, should be able to see this point (although either he doesn’t or doesn’t care to be serious in his proposals).

It’s as though a homeowner, looking to sell is house, put up a large sign that said: I’M DESPERATE AND IN A HURRY – GO AHEAD, MAKE AN OFFER. ANY OFFER. PLEASE.

That’s not fiscal prudence – it’s a call to sell public goods below market, only further exacerbating a municipality’s challenges. Deliberate, careful, case-by-case: that’s the only sound way to protect a city’s position and avoid aggravating existing problems.

Crony capitalism – giving away public things at low cost to benefit insiders’ friends who could pay market rates – is a fiscal threat to government at all levels.

Seniors. The Yvarra campaign also offers a “Senior Position Paper,” by which they mean a flyer (one supposes) about issues of concern to senior-citizen residents, not a position paper that’s older than their others.

Funny, but in that paper Mr. Yvarra talks about issues of law enforcement as though they were of special concern to seniors – that’s silly, of course, as public safety matters to all the community.

Mr. Yvarra declares that he’s in favor of a police K9, as though Mr. Binnie and others were not. The implication is deeply misleading and unfair – everyone in the local government supports this program (with a combination role of detection and tracking for the dog they’ll select).

Honestly, as a libertarian I’ve written critiques of policing over the years, and yet I’ve not opposed this program.

It’s as though Mr. Yvarra said that he supports clean drinking water – of course, Mr. Binnie does, too, but the implication is meant to suggest otherwise.

On Fire & Rescue, the subject of an ongoing task force, Mr. Yvarra takes a similar approach: he declares that he wants a volunteer force, as we have now. Well, there’s no one in government who has proposed a change, not on Council, and not in the municipal administration. Some changes will come out of an independent consultant’s report, and some need to happen, but we will continue to have a volunteer force.

On bike paths, Candidate Yvarra advances a similar scare tactic, suggesting that Whitewater might spend millions on bike paths. Too funny, if it weren’t too sad and too misleading.

If I told you that Whitewater might become a huge outdoor waterpark, you’d have reason to think that I’d lost my reason. The Dells has no cause to fret – that’s not happening, either.

I think contested elections usually serve their communities well, but to do so those races need to be based on accurate information and sound analysis. Sadly, that’s not Mr. Yvarra’s approach.

Whitewater deserved better than this, but she can be assured of better representation if she wisely re-elects Lynn Binnie.

Daily Bread

Daily Bread for 3.25.14

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Good morning.

It’s spring, but Tuesday will be a blustery day with a high of twenty-five. Sunrise is 6:49 AM and sunset 7:13 PM. The moon’s a waning crescent with 32% of its visible disk illuminated.

Today in town, the Urban Forestry Commission meets at 4:30 PM.

On this day in 1911, America experiences one of her worst industrial tragedies:

In one of the darkest moments of America’s industrial history, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burns down, killing 145 workers, on this day in 1911….

The Triangle factory, owned by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, was located in the top three floors of the 10-story Asch Building in dowas a sweatshop in every sense of the word: a cramped space lined with work stations and packed with poor immigrant workers, mostly teenaged women who did not speak English. At the time of the fire, there were four elevators with access to the factory floors, but only one was fully operational and it could hold only 12 people at a time. There were two stairways down to the street, but one was locked from the outside to prevent theft by the workers and the other opened inward only. The fire escape, as all would come to see, was shoddily constructed, and could not support the weight of more than a few women at a time….

On March 25, a Saturday afternoon, there were 600 workers at the factory when a fire broke out in a rag bin on the eighth floor. The manager turned the fire hose on it, but the hose was rotted and its valve was rusted shut. Panic ensued as the workers fled to every exit. The elevator broke down after only four trips, and women began jumping down the shaft to their deaths. Those who fled down the wrong set of stairs were trapped inside and burned alive. Other women trapped on the eighth floor began jumping out the windows, which created a problem for the firefighters whose hoses were crushed by falling bodies. Also, the firefighters’ ladders stretched only as high as the seventh floor, and their safety nets were not strong enough to catch the women, who were jumping three at a time.

Puzzability‘s March Madness series continues with Tuesday’s game:

This Week’s Game — March 24-28
March Madness
You can fill in your brackets every day for our little tournament. Each answer in this week’s trivia quiz is a name, title, or phrase that includes the letters in the word MARCH together, but out of order.
Example:
What song was Culture Club’s biggest hit, and its only song to reach #1 in the United States?
Answer:
“Ka[RMA CH]ameleon”
What to Submit:
Submit the name, title, or phrase, with the MARCH section in brackets (as “Ka[RMA CH]ameleon” in the example), for your answer.
Tuesday, March 25
What Discovery Channel series was about severe weather in Tornado Alley?