Friday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 81. Sunrise is 6:31 and sunset is 7:09, for 12 hours, 38 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 70.7 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Prices consumers pay for a variety of goods and services moved higher than expected in August while jobless claims accelerated, providing challenging economic signals for the Federal Reserve before its meeting next week.
The consumer price index posted a seasonally adjusted 0.4% increase for the month, the biggest gain since January, putting the annual inflation rate at 2.9%, up 0.2 percentage point from the prior month and the highest reading since January. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been looking for respective readings of 0.3% and 2.9%.
For the vital core reading that excludes food and energy, the August gain was 0.3%, putting the 12-month figure at 3.1%, both as forecast. Fed officials consider core to be a better gauge of long-run trends. The central bank’s inflation target is 2%.
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On employment, the Labor Department reported a surprise increase in weekly unemployment compensation filings to a seasonally adjusted 263,000 for the week ended Sept. 6, higher than the 235,000 estimate and up 27,000 from the prior period’s revised figure. The claims level marked the highest in nearly four years.
There’s an unusual factory in Curitiba, Brazil. It’s producing mosquitos by the millions, all to combat the diseases these insects spread. That’s because the mosquitos produced here can’t spread infections like dengue, zika and chikungunya. So, what does it take to raise an army of virus fighting mosquitos? Read more: https://www.nature.com/articles/d4158…
Wednesday, September 17th at 1:00 PM, there will be a showing of Beat the Devil @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building:
Action/Adventure/Comedy Rated PG
1 hour, 29 minutes (1953)
Written by Truman Capote, directed by John Huston, and bankrolled by Humphrey Bogart’s Santana Productions company, this is a droll satire of the Maltese Falcon, and was Huston’s and Bogart’s sixth and last collaboration. On their way to Africa, a group of rogues and swindlers hope to get rich by outsmarting each other in their chase for uranium. Filmed on location in Italy, this film has become a Bogart cult classic. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lorre and Robert Morley.
Thursday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 77. Sunrise is 6:30 and sunset is 7:11, for 12 hours, 41 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 81.3 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 2001, the September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks kill 2,977 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Ron Johnson. Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America / (CC BY-SA)
On the eve of the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson sought to encourage those promoting unsubstantiated theories about the tragedy to continue to investigate it.
He told a crowd of about 75 people gathered in northwest Washington to pursue the “truth” about the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people and suggested the government was covering up key details about the events. Still, he said he’s unsure if the “full truth could ever be possibly revealed.”
“I know a lot of people have theories,” Johnson said Wednesday evening.
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Johnson has previously questioned how World Trade Center 7, a third building in downtown Manhattan, could have collapsed in “any other way than a controlled demolition” since it was not directly hit by a plane.
“What actually happened at 9/11?” Johnson asked during an interview with the MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson in April. “What do we know? What is being covered up? My guess is there is an awful lot being covered up in terms of what the American government knows about 9/11.”
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, whose investigation into the collapse Johnson has called corrupt, determined that debris from the destruction of the Twin Towers started fires on floors of Building 7. The sprinkler system failed, and heat from the flames meant a structural column failed, ultimately causing the whole building to fall.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 75. Sunrise is 6:29 and sunset is 7:13, for 12 hours, 43 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 89.6 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
More students mean more opportunity. They represent potential and potentialities; not certainties, only possibilities, for themselves and us. What the Whitewater community makes of these additional students depends on how they and we interact. In the last decade, the 2010s, Whitewater saw a university leadership inadequate to its students and faculty. (See categories 1 and 2.) No amount of rationalization then or since changes that decade’s series of mistakes and misconduct. This libertarian blogger was right then and remains right now.
We are past that time, and one should be grateful (I know that I am) that we are.
What we make of this opportunity — whether we achieve some or all of what we can — still lies ahead.
There is a new method to detect and map spots on stars by “using observations from NASA missions of orbiting planets.” according to NASA”s Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 73. Sunrise is 6:28 and sunset is 7:14, for 12 hours, 46 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 93 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1972, in Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world.
Rich Kremer reports that Bryan Steil and Derrick Van Orden are Wisconsin’s top Democratic targets but haven’t strayed from Trump:
Trump has pursued much of his agenda without Congress, but his signature budget law is the exception. Nearly every Republican voted for it, including Steil and Van Orden.
Neither lawmaker has shied away from the votes, especially Van Orden. While he’s avoided in-person town halls, he’s been among the president’s most outspoken supporters, especially on social media.
“We will be passing @realDonaldTrump Big Beautiful Bill and anyone that is (in) the way needs to find another Party,” Van Orden wrote on X in late May.
“I am very proud to stand with @realDonaldTrump and the One Big Beautiful Bill,” he wrote in another post in June. “We are delivering on the mandate given by the American people. Cope.”
Steil and Van Orden cannot stray from Trump: WISGOP primary voters in their gerrymandered districts would not allow it.
There’s another reason they’ll not stray, however, a reason more immediate and psychological. They’ve espoused a far-right populist agenda, and populism is an insatiable extremism from which few adherents ever recant. Those who develop a craving for populism (the nativism, the magical economics, the thirst to impose their will on others by force) want more, not less. Go that far, and you’ve gone too far to walk back. Drink a little, and they quickly fill another glass.
The gap between a reasoned politics and populism is canyon-wide. Van Orden and Steil will stay where they are, come what may.
Visible from Australia, across Asia and western Europe, a blood moon has been captivating stargazers. This marvel is caused when the Earth shades the moon from direct solar light, causing the moon to appear red.
Monday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 71. Sunrise is 6:27 and sunset is 7:16, for 12 hours, 49 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 99 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
The Whitewater School Board’s Policy Review Committee meets at 4:30 PM. Whitewater’s Planning and Architectural Commission meets at 6 PM.
On this day in 1966, the landmark science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, “The Man Trap.”
Administration officials also have said they expect provisions in Trump’s signature legislation, which he dubbed “the One Big Beautiful Bill,” to encourage greater business investment. In July, Bessent promised Fox that the measure “will set off growth like we have never seen before.”
Some Wall Street banks forecast a more muted performance, at least in the short term. Morgan Stanley pegs economicgrowth in the current quarter at 1.5 percent.
Today’s labor market weakness can be traced to several Trump policies, economists said. On-again, off-again tariff announcements over the past several months have made it difficult for businesses to plan new investments or to hire.
Trump has imposed the highest tariffs since the 1930s in a bid to encourage domestic manufacturing. Yet factory employment has dropped by 41,000 since February. Other trade-related sectors, including mining, wholesalers and oil and gas extraction, also have seen payrolls shrink in recent months. And the boom in factory construction that began under President Joe Biden ended after Trump eliminated many of the government subsidies that encouraged such projects.
“We aren’t even seeing the beginnings of a tariff-related recovery in manufacturing. You don’t expect to see it overnight. But it’s going in the wrong direction,” said economist Dean Baker, co-founder of the Center for Economic Policy Research in Washington.
The president’s crackdown on illegal immigration, including workplace raids like the one at a Hyundai plant in Georgia on Friday, is driving down the availability of foreign-born workers, which also weighs on hiring. Over the first six months of the year, the nation’s foreign-born population fell by more than 1 million, according to the Pew Research Center.
Trump’s tougher immigration policy, coupled with the effects of societal aging, are reducing potential monthly job growth by more than 100,000 hires, according to Barclays.
The Trump administration weathered another disappointing U.S. jobs report when the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced on September 5, 2025, that total nonfarm payroll employment rose by only 22,000 in August. The total seasonally adjusted labor force has increased by only 34,000 since January 2025 and has decreased by 357,000 since its peak in April 2025.
“The loss of immigrant workers and immigrant consumers is a major cause of slow job growth,” said labor economist Mark Regets, a senior fellow at the National Foundation for American Policy, in an interview. “Immigrants both create demand for the goods and services produced by U.S.-born workers and work alongside them in ways that increase productivity for both groups.”
Far-right populism has no sound economic theory, certainly not a theory of mutually supporting, synergistic growth. (The populists aren’t free-market types.) Populism has, in economics and culture, only a zero-sum theory of someone’s loss as someone else’s gain. And so, and so, they erroneously believe that deportations, for example, would leave more for everyone else.
It hasn’t and it won’t work that way. It’s worth noting, however, that populist claims of an economic gain were, at bottom, only secondary to them in any event.
It’s a cultural and political retribution that they want. They’ll inflict (and endure) widespread economic pain for their primary cultural goals.
South Korea’s president, Lee Jae Myung, has promised to make ‘all-out efforts’ to resolve the arrest of hundreds of the country’s citizens by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) during a raid at a factory being built in Georgia, Atlanta, to make car batteries. The incident could exacerbate tensions between the Trump administration and Seoul, a key Asian ally and investor.
Sunday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 64. Sunrise is 6:26 and sunset is 7:18, for 12 hours, 52 minutes of daytime. The moon is full with 100 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1776, according to American colonial reports, Ezra Lee makes the world’s first submarine attack in the Turtle, attempting to attach a time bomb to the hull of HMS Eagle in New York Harbor.
New data last week showed a fourth month of tepid job growth and propelled joblessness to its highest level since late 2021, when the economy was still recovering from the effects of the covid-19 pandemic. Now, as companies wrestle with inflation, economic uncertainty and trade policy whiplash, many are shredding payrolls and shifting tasks to artificial intelligence while pulling in higher profits. And some executives are pointedly broadcasting sizable layoffs as wins, a sign they’re making workforces leaner and more efficient.
Hardly any corner of the economy is untouched by jobs cuts and slowdown: Employment in all goods-producing industries slumped in August, with the deepest losses coming from manufacturing and mining. The service sector was racked by steep layoffs in business and professional services and IT.
Meanwhile, job vacancies are shrinking as employers hold fire on hiring, data show. Factor in dimming consumer sentiment — which hit a three-month low in August — and conditions are ripe for labor market gridlock, said Bill Adams, chief economist for Comerica Bank in Dallas, leaving the economy “operating in low gear.”
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Mark Cohen, the former director of retail studies at Columbia Business School, expects those numbers to grow as retailers contend with tariff headwinds and as consumers feel increasingly pessimistic about the economy.
“There’s enormous uncertainty throughout the economy. Retail and retail support is well over 70 percent of the economy’s makeup, and the inputs to retail are entirely linked to international trade,” he said. “In the face of uncertainty, what choice do they have? Hire fewer people.”
Trump’s role was never economic. His role was, is, and always will be to deliver retribution for far-right populists against their ethnic, racial, and cultural enemies.
The world’s largest and most enduring iceberg is splintering into smaller pieces, to the point that it’s no longer the biggest chunk of ice floating in the oceans. It’s currently drifting between the southern tips of Africa and South America.
Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 63. Sunrise is 6:25 and sunset is 7:20, for 12 hours, 55 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 98.2 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1976, Soviet Air Defense Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.
At an animal shelter in Green Bay, a retired volunteer is living every cat lover’s — and nap lover’s — dream.
For seven years, 82-year-old former Spanish teacher Terry Lauerman has been donating his time to Safe Haven Pet Sanctuary. The shelter is dedicated to rescuing cats and dogs with special needs and disabilities. Terry’s specialty? Lying down and snoozing with the shelter’s cats.
“When you get old, you fall asleep easily, so it’s natural,” Lauerman told WPR’s “Wisconsin Today.”
See Beatrice Lawrence, Wisconsin’s viral ‘Cat Napper’ is living every cat lover’s dream (‘Retiree Terry Lauerman volunteers at Green Bay’s Safe Haven Pet Sanctuary, where he takes naps with the shelter’s special-needs cats’), Wisconsin Public Radio, September 5, 2025.
Friday in Whitewater will be windy with a high of 62. Sunrise is 6:24 and sunset is 7:21, for 12 hours, 58 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 93.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
U.S. job growth slowed significantly in August, a sign the labor market is under increasing stress.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that the United States added 22,000 jobs in August, well below expectations of 75,000. The unemployment rate ticked higher to 4.3%, in line with expectations.
“The U.S. economy appears to have stagnated” since July, analysts with Citi said in a note this week. They cited a separate survey from the Federal Reserve released Wednesday that showed little to no increase in economic activity or employment over the past several weeks.
Revised data reported by the BLS showed the jobs market actually contracted in June, though it climbed slightly more than initial estimates in July. Combined, employment for the two months is now 21,000 lower than previously reported, the BLS said. The federal statistical agency issues revisions as more businesses and governments provide data, and as seasonal factors get recalculated.
None of this should be surprising. Extreme populism does not, at bottom, have a coherent economics (let alone a sound economics); it has cultural grievances and political scores to settle.
Tuesday, September 9th at 1:00 PM, there will be a showing of Jane Austen Wrecked My Life @ Seniors in the Park, in the Starin Community Building:
Comedy/Romance rated R (language)
1 hour, 38 minutes (2025).
An aspiring author, looking to get more out of life, takes up a writing residency and finds herself in the sort of romantic entanglements that could come from the pages of a Jane Austen novel. Filmed in England and France. Dialogue in English and French with subtitles.
Thursday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 64. Sunrise is 6:23 and sunset is 7:23, for 13 hours, 0 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 87.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Public Arts Commission meets at 5 PM.
Whitefish Bay manufacturing CEO Bill Berrien said he supported Milwaukee Police Association President Alex Ayala’s plans to ask the Trump administration to send National Guard troops to Milwaukee, calling the city “one of the most crime-ridden cities in the country.”
And Washington County Executive Josh Schoemann told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Wednesday that he would “proactively work with the President to deploy sufficient law enforcement to keep our neighbors in Milwaukee safe, including the National Guard,” if he’s elected governor.
How could it be otherwise for them? They’re the equivalent of leaves on a river asking the river to keep flowing. They won’t shape their campaigns, even in part; the populist movement will.
When Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers announced this summer he would not seek reelection in 2026, Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany called President Donald Trump.
“With me considering doing it, I just wanted to make sure the president knew that Gov. Evers is not going to run for re-election. And we talked about it,” said Tiffany, who plans to announce whether he’ll launch a campaign for governor before the end of September.
“The purpose of that call was to set up the state of play in Wisconsin because the president more than anyone understands the importance of Wisconsin,” Tiffany, who represents the solidly red 7th Congressional District, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Republican sources have told the Journal Sentinel that Trump declined to endorse Tiffany’s run for governor during his White House meeting. But Tiffany said Trump “didn’t say anything like that to me.”
He said Trump’s top concern during the discussion was maintaining a GOP majority in the House. Trump asked Tiffany what the status of the 7th District would be if Tiffany decided to run for governor.
Oh my — pitiful as it is servile. In Tiffany’s telling, he felt the need to tell Trump that Gov. Evers wasn’t running again. Trump may not know economics, foreign policy, or public health (he doesn’t), but he does know politics. Trump most certainly knew that Tony Evers declined a third run without Tom Tiffany calling the White House. Honest to goodness.
Articles about the local aspects of the Wisconsin gubernatorial race are largely anachronistic. The Wisconsin gubernatorial race will be a national race, as populism and Mr. Trump’s opinion matter far more to the WISGOP.
