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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.

Quoted: “The 7th Circuit would rule on that fairly quickly, whether it be on the substance that the court decision was wrong in some way or maybe that the court didn’t have proper authority to release Brendan at this time,” Associate UW-Madison Law Prof. Adam Stevenson said.

Quoted: In the end, whatever happens in San Francisco and New York tends to diffuse across the country, but as least some regulations could end up being to Airbnb’s advantage, said Hart Posen, a professor in the business school at the University of Wisconsin.“You need a certain degree of scale to manage that kind of regulations, and that’s a barrier to new companies coming into the field. Once [Airbnb] builds the software to do it, it’s usable in San Francisco and Chicago and everywhere else” he said.

Noted: Donna Friedsam agreed. Friedsam, a policy director at the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, said that prohibiting coverage denials while dropping the coverage mandate could “collapse the individual insurance market” in the United States.

Quoted: Kathy Cramer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has studied rural America for years. In her book published earlier this year, “The Politics of Resentment,” she writes about the deep well of distrust that people in rural Wisconsin feel toward the major cities in the state. There is a belief that Madison and Milwaukee get all the attention and all the tax dollars. Rural voters feel left behind.

Quoted: Justin Sydnor, a professor in the business school at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, is not quite so sanguine about Obamacare’s near-term future. “Many insurers had put provisions into their contracts for offering ACA-exchange plans  that they could exit the market during the plan year if the federal government stops payments for ’cost-sharing reductions,’” he said. “Because President Trump will have the authority through executive action to end those payments, he could cause an abrupt pullout and cancellation of ACA policies even in January next year. In light of that, what I would say is that there is some real risk of those who buy ACA plans of not being able to get through 2017 without a serious disruption.”

Quoted: “It’s been a long brutal two years, excruciating,” UW-Madison communications expert Mike Flaherty said.Flaherty said the best thing to do to heal those post-election wounds is to stop venting on social media and unplug a bit.

Quoted: “We have never had polls off this substantially across the board,” says UW-Madison Police Science Department Chairman David Canon.

Noted: UW-Madison Political Science Department Chairman David Canon says Trump greatly expanded margins in counties republican candidate Mitt Romney won in 2012, and also flipped a chunk of rural counties from the democratic column in 2012, to his column by sizable amounts.

Quoted: “Trump was an appealing candidate for people who were feeling like rural Wisconsin always gets a raw deal, and people in rural Wisconsin don’t get their fair share, and people in cities don’t respect them and nobody listens to them or has a clue what is going on there,” said Kathy Cramer, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and author of a book about politics and rural Wisconsin.