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Quoted: Peter Carstensen, professor of law at UW-Madison, said he wasn’t surprised policyholders approved the change, adding that for policyholders it should be business as usual.

Noted: Tom O’Guinn, professor of marketing, appeared on WPR’s Central Time to talk about companies speaking out on political issues and the impact of consumer boycotts.

Quoted: But regulation may be difficult, admits Christine Whelan, a clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin who studies the lucrative self-help industry and now sits on the board of SEEK Safely. “Do we regulate the physical things someone can do at one of these workshops?” Whelan says of the challenges of regulation. “Are we regulating the speech in terms of what advice people can give? And then who is the judge of what is good and bad advice?”

Quoted: “We have a program that now costs us $247 million. All at a time when the state of Wisconsin has been one of the biggest public school cutters in the United States,” said Julie Underwood, a University of Wisconsin-Madison law and education professor and voucher critic. “It concerns me that the solution would be to continue to shift resources from public to private, or to shift the bill to the public schools.”

Noted: Political scientist Barry Burden, the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it would be extremely difficult to complete the recount on time. About twice as many votes were cast in the presidential election as the 2011 Supreme Court race.

Quoted: John Hawks, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin—Madison, human evolution expert and co-author of a study which found that 7 percent of human genes have evolved in the recent past (5,000 years), largely in response to environmental change

Quoted: “They reverse lower courts sometimes so it’s not out of the ordinary that a court would do this,” said Keith Findley, co-director of the innocence project at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

“It has had really an impact across the board in retail, both mom and pops as well as the large department stores and pretty much everything in between has been impacted by it,” said Dan Olszewski, Director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Business.

A week after the historical presidential election last week, a Washington Post reporter and Milwaukee radio host joined two UW-Madison professors Tuesday to discuss the ramifications of Donald Trump’s shocking victory.

Galen McKinley, an associate professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at UW-Madison, talks about the incredibly warm weather we’ve been having.

Quoted: “There are updates to the tax code all the time,” said Fabio Gaertner, an accounting professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Business who specializes in taxation.

UW Health Clinical Psychologist Dr. Shilagh Mirgain joined NBC15’s Meredith Barack to share advice on how to approach kids with serious, hard-hitting topics.

Quoted: “People between the ages of 15 and 25 tend to be high school kids or young adults in college and there is some concern about this hook-up culture. With that sort of culture there may be less openness in the relationship and willingness among the couple to discuss condoms for STD prevention,” said UW Health OBGYN, Dr. Cynthie Anderson.