WPT Midweek Moment

This week, we look at how:

• literally, the coolest reason to win a Nobel Prize
• New York's getting a win/win for schools and taxpayers that we aren't
• WPT is still playing whack-a-mole with municipal fees
• datacenters are making allies in unique ways

Then, we bring it home with one of the best founding father quotes in a while, and do it all in less time than a Jake Bauers 12 pitch at bat that ends in a walk.

…and as always, thanks for listening.

This week, we have a few headlines from Wisconsin's economy:

• a difficult decision in Wisconsin Rapids,
• a business expansion in Sheboygan Falls,
• a flock camera update from Milwaukee,

Then, we bring it home with a quote from a founding father on how to tell if government is doing a good job, and do it all in less time than it takes for pumpkin spice to be on every menu in Wisconsin.

…and as always, thanks for listening.

This week, our stories look at how motivations impact outcomes:

• an outdoors, immersive experience in Wisconsin that's pretty cool
• a data center that's acting like a good neighbor
• two stories about how your taxpayer dollars are being spent

Then, we bring it home with a quote from a founding father that made the most of his side hustles, and do it all in less time than it takes to go from shorts to sweatshirt weather in Wisconsin.

…and as always, thanks for listening.

This week, our stories look at how motivations impact outcomes:

• an abuse of power from the You Can't Make This Stuff Up File
• a Wisconsin guest at the White House
• an overdue reprimand for the dairy checkoff program
• a big opportunity for Wisconsin manufacturing

Then, we bring it home with a quote from a founding father that made the most of his side hustles, and do it all in less time than it takes to get the flannel sheets out of storage.

…and as always, thanks for listening.

This week, our stories revolve around education:

• a major award for Wisconsin
• analysis last year's record breaking tax increases
• recent results and trends of math aptitiude in the U.S.
• an example of teaching methodology gone astray

Then, we bring it home with a quote from the longest serving Supreme Court Justice in history, and we do it all in less time than it takes to flag down a busy bartender.

…and as always, thanks for listening.

This week, we look at quite a few stories:

• a major victory in the courts for taxpayers
• something cool in Kewaskum
• a "You Can't Make This Stuff Up File" story
• an update on our Flock cameras story
• Wisconsin Technical Colleges are getting glowing reviews
• Wisconsin Technical Colleges budget increase requests

Then, we bring it home with a quote from the most famous script writer in history, and we do it all in less time than it takes to order your hunting license.

…and as always, thanks for listening.

This week, we look at a few of the many technology headlines flying around:

• satellites aimed at farmers
• Flock cameras
• technology upgrades for law enforcement databases
• tablets for inmates
• data centers

Then, we bring it home with a quote from POTUS #4 and we do it all in less time than it takes to reboot your computer.

…and as always, thanks for listening.

This week, we look at headlines about the kids:

• the kids being up to no good
• the well meaning adults that might be doing them a dis-service
• a success story about the school that is avoiding the status quo, succeeding in spite of its circumstances

Then, we bring it home with a quote from POTUS 13 and we do it all in less time than it takes to launch a boat at a public launch.

…and as always, thanks for listening.

This week, we rapid fire through five or six headlines:

• a story from the You Can't Make This Stuff Up file
• the polls weren't as wrong as I told you they were
• a university takes a step to coddle students and their grades even more
• a study on childhood reading that a child could have predicted

Then, we bring it home with a quote from the layer that defended the British soldiers charged after the Boston Massacre and went on to serve as President of the United States, and we do it all in less time than it takes for your icecream cone to start quickly dripping.

…and as always, thanks for listening.

This week, we are LOADED UP with exposing some of the irony and chaos that resulted in a wild primary. We dissect multiple:

• wild election results
• massive piles of campaign money
• wildly inaccurate polls
• endorsements that make less sense the longer you stare at them

After all that, we bring it home with one of the most iconic founding father quotes ever, and do it all in less time than it takes for Milwaukee come up with yet another way to look incompetent at counting votes.

…and as always, thanks for listening.