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Next round of COVID vaccines, Social media warnings for minors, Wisconsin folk songs in the National Recording Registry
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A Wisconsin doctor explains what you need to know about the next round of COVID vaccines. Then, we explore the effectiveness of warning labels for social media sites. Then, we hear some Wisconsin folks tunes that were recently added to the National Recording Registry.
Featured in this Episode
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What to expect from next round of COVID vaccines
A doctor from the UW School of Medicine and Public Health explains what you need to know about the next round of COVID vaccines, how the virus is evolving and what the cold and flu season could look like.
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How do social media platforms affect adolescents?
The U.S. Surgeon General recently announced a push to put a warning label on social media platforms, saying the apps may harm adolescents’ mental health. We check in on a Wisconsin research program working with adolescents to learn about the impact of social media and how to promote healthy use.
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Folk music from Wisconsin’s history now archived in the National Recording Registry
Recorded between 1937 and 1946, the Wisconsin Folksong Collection now takes residence in the National Recording Registry. We listen to and discuss songs from the collection with a UW-Madison professor emeritus and the director of the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.
Episode Credits
- Rob Ferrett Host
- Kate Archer Kent Host
- Dr. Jonathan Temte Guest
- Dr. Ellen Selkie Guest
- James P. Leary Guest
- Nicki Saylor Guest
- Dean Knetter Executive Producer
- Joe Tarr Producer
- Richelle Wilson Producer
- Trevor Hook Producer
- Avery Lea Rogers Producer
- Tyler Ditter Technical Director
- Sarah Hopefl Technical Director
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Packers roster cuts, Wisconsin football opener and IndyCar highlight the week ahead for Wisconsin sports Aug. 26-Sept. 1
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Here is the look ahead at Milwaukee-area and other Wisconsin sports events for the week of Aug. 26.
Roster cuts
When: 3 p.m. Tuesday
What to know: NFL teams must cut their rosters from 90 to 53.
More: Predicting the Green Bay Packers 53-man roster: Kicker, backup quarterback still in flux
San Francisco at Milwaukee
When: 7:10 p.m. Tuesday, 7:10 p.m. Wednesday, 1:10 p.m. Thursday (all televised on Bally Sports Wisconsin)
What to know: Perhaps the Brewers will luck out and not have to face one of the most dominant starting pitchers in the second half in San Francisco left-hander Blake Snell.
Milwaukee at Cincinnati
When: 11:40 a.m. (BSWis and MLBN) and 5:40 p.m. Friday (BSWis), 6:15 p.m. Saturday (Fox), 11:10 a.m. Sunday (BSWis)
What to know: Anything can, and usually does, happen in the bandbox that is Great American Ball Park. Opening with a doubleheader, the Brewers are going to need to pitch well in this series.
Western Michigan at Wisconsin
When: 8 p.m. Friday (FS1)
What to know: The Badgers, coming off a 7-6 season under first-year coach Luke Fickell, open the season against a Broncos team that went 4-8 last season.
WISCONSIN BADGERS VOLLEYBALL
When: Sunday and Monday (Sept. 2) at Fiserv Forum.
Schedule: UW vs. Texas, 11:30 a.m. Sunday (Fox); Minnesota vs. Stanford, 2 p.m. Sunday (FS1); UW vs. Stanford, 4 p.m. Monday (Fox); Minnesota vs. Texas, 6:30 p.m. Monday (FS1).
What to know: The Badgers, whose season ended in the national semifinals with a loss to Texas, will aim for revenge when they face the Longhorns in the first match of the event in Milwaukee.
MOTOR SPORTS
Crandon Off Road World Championships
When: Thursday-Sunday
What to know: The Wisconsin Northwoods hosts the biggest pro and amateur event in short-course off-road racing for trucks, buggies and side-by sides, as it has since 1970.
More: How the ‘Baja of the Northwoods’ changed a tiny Wisconsin town and became the center of a sport’s universe
IndyCar weekend at Milwaukee Mile
When: Milwaukee Hy-Vee 250s at 5:05 p.m. Saturday (Peacock) and 2 p.m. Sunday (USA, Peacock).
What to know: The open-wheel cars that have been so important to the history of the track return after an eight-year absence for a pair of 250-mile races.
First games of seasons: Tuesday for cross country, boys soccer, volleyball; Thursday-Friday for 8-player football
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Democracy on line? Swing state Wisconsin offers a test – Times of India
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“Trump, I think, is an existential threat to democracy,” the 36-year-old said as he strolled through the bustling downtown of Appleton, one of the most politically diverse areas of one of the most closely divided US states.
He pointed to the “terrifying” people around the Republican mogul and to Project 2025, the governing blueprint written for, but publicly disavowed by, Trump that would ram through his hard-right policies.
“They aim to truly just bypass and circumvent checks and balances, and really neuter the efficacy of our political system,” Hovde said.
Not far away, past the verdant lawns and elegant Victorian homes in this comfortably middle-class city, Casey Stern, 58, sees the race between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris quite differently.
Above his neatly tended garden of corn and zucchini flies an imposing “Trump 2024” flag. Another banner calls for Biden’s impeachment and says, “We the People Are Pissed.”
If the message is in-your-face, so are the reactions. Stern recounts passers-by shouting profanities, while some critics jot down his address and send him letters.
He acknowledged that Trump’s “mean tweets in the middle of the night” can bother people but believes the country needs a “strong-willed” leader to address inflation, immigration and crime.
“Every time you go to the grocery store, you can’t even afford a steak,” Stern said.
He scoffed at Democrats’ charges that Trump puts democracy at risk, accusing President Joe Biden of stifling public debate over the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Biden has done more to harm democracy,” he said.
– State of tumult –
If there is one state where the Democrats’ message on Trump’s threat to democracy may mobilize voters, it is Wisconsin.
Once known for clean, polite, left-tilting politics, Wisconsin has become an epicenter of partisanship — an ultimate swing state that could tip the national .
Trump stunned complacent Democrats by winning narrowly in 2016. Biden then took back Wisconsin by another razor-thin margin in 2020.
A turning point had come in 2010 when Scott Walker, a young Republican who many presumed would respect Wisconsin’s mild-mannered political style, was elected governor and unleashed sweeping changes.
He stripped power from Wisconsin’s once-formidable labor unions, and his Republicans drastically redrew election maps, virtually guaranteeing party control of the state legislature.
Democrats hope Republicans will have their comeuppance in the November 5 election, fought on less partisan maps after a ruling by the state Supreme Court’s new liberal majority.
Kristin Alfheim, a Democrat who is seeking a state Senate seat, said competitive maps benefit democracy.
“It brings the opportunity for accountability from both sides, knowing they’re going to need to work together,” she said.
– ‘Democracy’ cuts both ways –
Biden and Harris have hammered away on the threat to democracy from Trump, who refused to accept defeat in 2020 and fired up the supporters who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Arnold Shober, a government professor at Lawrence University in Appleton, said the democracy theme carried “special resonance” in Wisconsin after its experience with Walker, who was voted out in 2018.
But Shober said it cut both ways, with some Republicans still smarting over the boisterous, albeit nonviolent, protests that disrupted the state’s capitol when Walker pushed through his anti-union measure, known as Act 10.
“When you talk about January 6 in Wisconsin, folks on the right will instantly say, well, what about those Democrats with Act 10?” Shober said.
“They see it almost as an equity issue. You did it — we can do it, too.”
– Countering vitriol –
The historic home to giant paper mills and now the base for major white-collar employers, Outagamie County, of which Appleton is the seat, was dominated by Republicans and produced the notorious anti-communist witch-hunter Joe McCarthy.
But in a microcosm of the country, an urban-rural split has deepened, with Democrats gaining in an increasingly cosmopolitan Appleton.
Outagamie County Chief Executive Tom Nelson, a Democrat sympathetic to socialist Bernie Sanders, has kept winning since 2011 even as he has seen coarseness in politics rising with Trump.
“He has animated that vitriol, that contempt, that hatred,” he said.
Nelson said he has successfully reached across the divide on a more basic message.
Fundamentally, he said, people want “to be able to live in a community that is safe, that is healthy, that has a strong and vibrant economy.”
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2024 Wisconsin Football Superlatives
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We all have memories of our senior yearbook superlatives, where awards were bestowed upon us/classmates (fairly or unfairly) for our high school body of work. “Most Likely to Succeed” was the golden goose, but others such as “Most Likely to be a Game Show Host” or “Class Clown” were also in the mix.
With this in mind, I crafted my list of Wisconsin Badgers football superlatives for the 2024 team and explored this with the incomparable Ryan Harings of Locked on Badgers.
Here are some categories that Ryan and I came up with and a few others that I awarded on my own.
I’d love to hear your picks in the comments.
Most Likely to Succeed: Tawee Walker and Will Pauling
Most Improved: Nyzier Fourqurean, Bryson Green, Jack Nelson, Jake Chaney
Most Like to Be a Comedian: Will Pauling, RJ Delancy
Best True Freshman: Xavier Lucas, Dillon Johnson, Kevin Heywood
Most Likely to be a Football Coach: Braedyn Locke, Jake Chaney
Most Likely to Run Camp Randall Steps When Nobody’s Looking: Hunter Wohler, Max Lofy, Jake Chaney
Most Likely to be President: Will Pauling, RJ Delancy, Cole LaCrue
Most Likely to Succeed in the NFL: Ricardo Hallman, Hunter Wohler, Kevin Heywood
Most Likely Really Good Team to Lose to The Badgers in 2024: Penn State
Newcomers of the Year: Jaheim Thomas, John Pius, Alex Van Dyke, Tawee Walker, AJ Blazek, EJ Whitlow
Most Likely to Put up a Big Game vs Alabama: Jaheim Thomas, Hunter Wohler
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