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Noted: Interview with Hart Posen of the Wisconsin School of Business.

Quoted: At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, economics professor Noah Williams said Wisconsin’s manufacturing jobs losses would have been steeper without the tax break. “Job growth would have been lower in manufacturing and overall,” the economist said in an email.

Quoted: Can a governor radically change the course of a state’s economy?” asked Steven Deller, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension. “Not really, but they can influence on the margins, or around the corners. As you know, the larger macroeconomy (what is happening to the U.S. economy) is the 800-pound gorilla in the room. But a governor can set the tone of how the state thinks about the business climate.”

Quoted: The hope is for those 150 cuttings to sprout into hearty trees in the next few years so they can be replanted elsewhere on the property, said Curt Meine, adjunct associate professor in University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Forest and Wildlife Ecology Department.

Noted: Steve Ackerman and Jonathan Martin, professors in the UW-Madison department of atmospheric and oceanic sciences, are guests on WHA radio (970 AM) at 11:45 a.m. the last Monday of each month.

Quoted: There are options on the market for weed killers that have less of a negative impact, but there aren’t any products that have zero risk to the environment, UW-Madison professor Paul Koch said.

Quoted: Susan Nitzke, professor emerita in nutritional sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says most people know the benefits of healthy eating and “if they have kids, they know the importance of being a good role model.”

Quoted: Further, the continuing weakness across much of brick-and-mortar retail could mean lower real estate costs for firms that are doing well enough to expand, Hart Posen, a business professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said by email.

Quoted: Increasing the penalty for not having insurance and increasing the subsidies to offset the costs of insurance could bring more people into the market and help spread that risk, said Justin Sydnor, a professor of risk management and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: “We are seeing a pattern now that the recession is over, the large-core metro counties are starting to lose population again,” said David Egan-Robertson, a demographer with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Applied Population Lab. “And that’s true around the country.”

Quoted: Dan Olszewski, the director of the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship for the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said failure is common when people go into business for themselves.

Quoted: A system for examining and sharing the factors that contributed to an incident with an eye toward prevention is the next step, said Cecelia Klingele, associate professor at the UW law school. “A key feature of a good review system … is the recognition that we have to be focused on helping people prevent future incidents rather than blaming people for past mistakes,” she said.

Interview with Frank Tuerkheimer of University of Wisconsin Law School.