Here & Now, Ep. 1121 (2012-12-07)

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Here & Now, teachers union merger, WEAC’s Mary Bell talking about a possible merger with the state’s other teacher’s union. Bell is in Madison studio, mining, Two important mining related activities happened on Thursday: an afternoon Senate Mining hearing at the State Capitol and, on Thursday night, an Indian Country summit on mining that includes activists and tribal officials. Shawn Johnson covered the Senate gathering for WPR. He’ll join us via skype. Danielle Kaeding is the News Director at Northland College’s WRNC Radio. She’s covering Thursday night’s tribal meeting. She’ll join us via poly-com from Ashland. Tribe SOT in Kaeding/Johnson talk, raising uw enrollment caps, UW Board of Regents approved raising cap on the enrollment of out-of-state students to 27.5 percent (formerly 25 percent) 200 more seats to in-state students at UW-Madison. We talked to UW System president, Kevin Reilly. Prospects of careers for students graduating mid year, flu and vaccines, Tom Haupt is in charge of flu surveillance and vaccines for State Dept. of Health. Haupt joins Frederica in the Madison studio. Includes vaccine b-roll, sand mining, B-roll of sand mining with voiceover teasing segment in…

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Wisconsin Public Television

Subjects

public broadcasting, AAPB, Mary Bell, Shawn Johnson, Danielle Kaeding, Kevin Reilly, Frederica Freyberg, Tom Haupt, Barack Obama, Wisconsin Education Association Council, University of Wisconsin System, University of Wisconsin-Madison, New Glarus Brewing Company, Wisconsin State Capitol, Mining, Sand mining, Flu vaccination, Higher education enrollment

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