Good morning.

It’s a mostly sunny day ahead for the Whippet City, with a high temperature of forty-five degrees.

There will be a joint Park & Recreation Board and Landmarks Commission tonight at 7 p.m.

The meeting will feature a public hearing:

Neighbors and interested community members are invited to attend a public hearing on Wednesday, March 30th at 7:00 PM, held at the Whitewater Municipal Building in the 2nd floor conference room. The public hearing will be held jointly by the Parks and Recreation Board and the Landmarks Commission. This will be the third meeting in a series of public meetings, the prepared restoration plan will be presented at the meeting and the intention of the meeting is to generate discussion and direction for the plan. The City has contracted with Jennings & Associates, a planning firm that has significant background in both land restoration and planning, as well as archeological preservation.

The draft plan for the restoration is available online.

Good morning.

It’s a partly sunny day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of forty-one degrees.

There’s a Common Council meeting tonight, at 6:30 p.m. The agenda is available online.

Over at Science News, there’s a story with good news, of a sort: Daniel Strain reports that Major Earth Quakes [are] Not Linked.  Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey conclude that

Big earthquakes like the Sendai quake that devastated Japan in March don’t cause similar disasters on the other side of the globe, a new study suggests.

Like ranks of falling dominoes, tremors on the scale of the Sendai quake can trigger other earthquakes, say geophysicists at the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif. But, based on analyses of about 30 years of seismic data, those shocks are all very small or sit close to the original fault break, the group reports online March 27 in Nature Geoscience.

“If California is ready to go, it’s because California is ready to go,” says Jian Lin, a geophysicist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts. “Not because an earthquake in California would be triggered by Japan.”

Good news, of a particular and limited kind.

Good morning.

Whitewater’s forecast calls for a sunny day, with a high temperature of thirty-eight degrees.

Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets today at 4:30 p.m.  The agenda for the meeting is available online.

Campus and schools are back in session today.  Study responsibly.  It’s only a matter of time before one government commission or another develops a program along these lines: Appropriate Calculus or Respectful Social Studies.

The Wisconsin Historical Society notes that on this day in 1954,

McCarthy Recall Campaign Begins in Sauk City

On this date, “Joe Must Go,” a bipartisan grassroots campaign to recall Sen. Joe McCarthy from the Senate, began in earnest with an organizational meeting in Sauk City. The campaign had to collect 403,000 signatures in 60 days to force a recall election. With little money, a hastily thrown together organizational structure, and unenthusiastic or non-existent support from existing organizations (including farmers and organized labor), the group was still able to secure 335,000 signatures. Later in 1954 Sen. McCarthy was publicly censured by his Senate colleagues. [Source: The History of Wisconsin, v.6: Continuity and change, 1940-1965 (Madison, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1973-1998).]

I’ll post this week on a modern-day version of McCarthyism in Wisconsin.

If you’ve ver thought of building a large, fire-breathing robot, you’re not alone.  Here’s a bit of inspiration: