On this episode of Badgers United’s podcast, The Flagship, Maggie Gau, chief of staff for Gov. Tony Evers, joined the podcast this week for an in-depth conversation on UW-Madison and Wisconsin. Gau shares an extensive look at Gov. Evers’ budget priorities, including the capital budget and higher education more broadly. Gau also shares the administration’s perspective on COVID-19, the impact it will have on the upcoming school semester, and the broad direction of higher education in the State of Wisconsin.

There is no “unease” with the recall effort. The answer is no.

“Nobody thinks that that’s a responsible way to carry out justice—shooting someone in the back [multiple] times,” says Mandela Barnes. “That’s beyond bad police work.”

While there are studies that show racial disparities in police misconduct other than the use of lethal force, the oft-repeated narrative that police are “hunting down” African Americans is simply false.

Wisconsin residents of all political stripes are horrified by the violence we’ve seen in our state and elsewhere this summer, and we expect our elected leaders to sit down together in one room long enough to adopt policies to address the problem.

We battled persistent myths, spread on social media and by word of mouth, that Black people couldn’t get coronavirus. I also personally got barraged by white supremacists.

Former Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch is increasing her political visibility ahead of the 2022 elections with the debut of a effort to create a new conservative agenda for Wisconsin.

Wisconsin is, once again, the center of the American political universe. And I can’t imagine a more important place to be.

Firearms are everywhere. There are more of them in the United States than there are people. They wind up in the hands of gangs, robbers and thieves. They have become the go-to choice for police, some of whom see a need to resort to firearms even when it makes absolutely no sense.

Nationally and in Wisconsin more toxins allowed.

“The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football” by John Miller is a brilliant and fun book that tells the little known story of how Roosevelt saved the game of football.

Efforts are already underway to educate people of all ages of the importance of getting involved as poll workers, with organizations like AARP working alongside the Association of Younger Americans and Power the Polls to recruit as many poll workers as necessary.

What science can justify a ban on high capacity wells considering the flooding throughout the Central Sands region?

While Trump has long used inflammatory rhetoric, he has now openly embarked on a strategy to create violent disunity in America.

Thompson deserves support for his “bipartisanship” in fighting COVID-19.

Mobley recounts a conversation with neighbors about UW-Madison’s COVID-19 restrictions.

The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need for the U.S. to think globally about the issues that threaten our domestic security.

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