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Noted: Those are more or less “functional barriers” that keep Medicaid beneficiaries from getting the medicine that could help them quit, said Michael Fiore, a professor of medicine and director of the University of Wisconsin Medical School’s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. Fiore wasn’t involved in the study.

Noted: But according to University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and legal expert Howard Schweber, Walker is the one who’s off base when it comes to the legality question.

Quoted: While layoffs represent a blow to Wisconsin’s economy in 2015, especially in the manufacturing sector, economist Steven Deller of the the University of Wisconsin-Madison doesn’t find the numbers particularly concerning — not yet, anyway. He said it’s part of the natural ebb and flow of the economy.

Noted: Even though it seems like a lot of cows, Brian Gould, agricultural and applied economics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it likely won’t change national prices much. There are more than 9 million cows in the U.S., but this could still be tough for the region.

Noted: There are a number of factors that could be at play. In some states, patients have to make co-payments toward the medication, or get prior authorization from the Medicaid program before getting the drug. Those are more or less “functional barriers” that keep Medicaid beneficiaries from getting the medicine that could help them quit, said Michael Fiore, a professor of medicine and director of the University of Wisconsin Medical School’s Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. Fiore wasn’t involved in the study.

Kathy Cramer is the director of University of Wisconsin’s Morgridge Center for Public Service. Her new book, “The Politics of Resentment,” connects Scott Walker’s political rise to a rural resentment against the “liberal elite.” This resentment, she says, represents how one’s place-based identities influence his or her understanding of politics.

Noted: But I was most surprised by the opinion of Richard J. Davidson, founder of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Davidson has studied meditation’s effect on the brain extensively, and he described himself as a “deep, dedicated meditator.” Yet he flat-out opposes the use of EEG biofeedback in meditation training—whether with a consumer EEG device or a more advanced one like Dr. Brewer’s.

Quoted: University of Wisconsin-Madison telecommunications professor Barry Orton said a public fiber network would go beyond just improving Madison’s Internet speed and access.

Quoted: Dr. Robert Cropp, a professor emeritus of agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said this year’s decline in exports to China and other countries has been hard on the dairy market.

Quoted: “What we wanted was to find something that works within a given system to produce a reduction of phosphorus, but also works for the producers,” says Laura Good, a soil scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Noted: However, Scott Gehlbach, a co-author of the study and a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the study did not account for how many of the 80 percent are devout supporters versus those whose support is fleeting. Further, it’s likely that the Kremlin manipulates public opinion of Putin through tight control of the media.

“If there is a rule in biology, I can think about how it does not apply to fungi,” Anne Pringle, a mycologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, said earlier this year.

Quoted: In addition, recipients are getting pickier, says Evan Polman, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Consider the long lines of folks returning presents on December 26. Chalk up the boomerang phenomenon to an excess of options. “The more options someone has, the more she or he expects to find something that matches their preferences perfectly,” Polman says.