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Quoted: The company, which is registered as a public benefit corporation, includes the charity component to show it’s not just about making profits. This practice is unusual because an insurance company usually keeps all the profit or pays dividends to its shareholders or policyholders, said Justin Sydnor, a behavioral economist and associate professor of risk and insurance at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Quoted: Thomas O’Guinn, professor of marketing at UW-Madison, views the naming rights deal as a good move by American Family. He said the insurance market is crowded, so it’s to American Family’s advantage to stand out.

Quoted: “I found that young children with imprisoned mothers are at risk for having insecure attachment relationships with their mothers and caregivers,” says Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, professor of human development and family studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kids may become ambivalent or anxious about relationships, instead of enjoying the type of secure relationships that help a child flourish.

Art faculty Lynda Barry quoted: “Always carry a pen and a notebook with you — write down the crazy things you hear people say: the good, the bad, the confusing. If you can draw a picture of them saying it, even better! In other words, start to make comics about your experiences in this world.“And learn to sing ‘Bad Reputation’ by Joan Jett. Sing it as loud as you can with all of your heart.”

Noted: Katherine J. Cramer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, recently wrote a book about this. The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker came out just last March. It’s based on research she did from 2007 to 2012, when she essentially kept inviting herself to informal but regular gatherings of people in more than two dozen rural communities around the state—and listened.

Quoted: To Justin Sydnor, a University of Wisconsin-Madison economist who studies insurance and individual behavior, the two measures represent a chance to put politics aside and think about what really happens when the government requires consumers to buy insurance.

Quoted: “The vocal folds have a very specific viscosity, and you need that viscosity to create the mucosal wave,” said Susan Thibeault, an otolaryngologist and surgeon at the University of Wisconsin.

UW-Madison professor Hart Posen joined Steve Ketelaar on Wisconsin’s Weekend Morning News to discuss the future of retail. How did brick-and-morter stores do compared to online during Black Friday and holiday shopping? What will malls look like in the next few years?

Quoted: That has the advantage of allowing the U.S. Senate to pass a repeal measure without needing a filibuster-proof majority of 60 votes. But it also has the downside of being unable to necessarily pass all the elements that are likely needed in a replacement plan, said Donna Friedsam, director of Health policy programs at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.

Quoted: “At the moment, he looks like a very individualized figure in history,” said political scientist Byron Shafer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Hillary Clinton “couldn’t mobilize the Obama coalition because it’s an Obama coalition.”

Quoted: UW-Madison Journalism Professor Mike Wagner told 27 News politicians have always challenged the press, but feels the type of attack from President-Elect Trump is certainly new for an entire of generation of reporters used to covering the likes of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama – all of whom were generally cordial with the media.