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February 20, 2019

Research

Republicans, touting study, warn against Medicaid expansion

Wisconsin State Journal

The study, by the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty and UW-Madison professor Noah Williams, finds expanding Medicaid in 2020 would cost Wisconsin about $600 million annually despite significant savings to the state, chiefly because of increased private health care costs.

Higher Education/System

Guide to accessibility practices aims to help institutions develop formal policies

Inside Higher Ed

The indicators strike accessibility proponents as well intentioned and potentially valuable, according to Tom Tobin, faculty associate on the learning design, development and innovation team in the Division of Continuing Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He sees them as a motivator for institutions to “build strong foundations for inclusive practices.”

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The Vanishing Flights of the Monarch Butterfly

The New Yorker

Quoted: “We should celebrate the fact that we go up to this six-hectare number, and people who are living in areas where monarchs breed really noticed them this summer,” Karen Oberhauser, the director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum, who researches monarchs, told me. “It illustrates the fact that they have this incredible potential.”

Hagedorn focuses on adoption in first Supreme Court ad

Noted: Hagedorn says his daughter’s battle brought home the opioid crisis and how it affects families. The ad ends with images of Hagedorn in his judicial robe, walking next to police officers as he promises to “hold people accountable” as a Supreme Court justice. Such a claim is “largely nonsense” given the types of cases that come before the Supreme Court, said Howard Schweber, a law school and political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who is not endorsing anyone in the race.

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How The Badger Burrowed Into Wisconsin’s Identity

Wisconsin Public Radio

Bucky (not to be confused with the sweater-wearing caricature of the same name who peps up crowds at University of Wisconsin-Madison sporting events) is the resident education badger at the Henry Vilas Zoo. He goes on field trips and teaches kids about nature, so it seemed likely he could have some answers.