Here & Now, Ep. 1211 (2013-09-13)

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Here & Now, raw milk, Opent SOT - 'We are free to buy gin, cigarettes and shotguns but not unprocessed milk ', new UW chancellor, Economist Rebecca Blank is no stranger to campus life. She's held faculty positions at M-I-T, Princeton, Northwestern and Michigan. Since 2009 Blank has worked for the U.S. Commerce Department and, prior to taking her new job as UW-Madison Chancellor was that department's Acting Secretary. raw milk, Legalizing and regulating the sale of raw milk in Wisconsin. In favor of the bill is Kara (Slaughter) O'Connor, Government Relations Director, Wisconsin Farmers Union. Against the bill is Shawn Schaff, spokesperson for the Wisconsin Safe Milk Coalition as well as the Wisconsin Dairy Business Council B-roll of hearing + four factoids about raw milk, retiring state senator, Democratic Senator Tim Cullen of Janesville says he will not seek re-election when his term ends in 2014. Cullen served in the state senate from 1975 to 1987, five of those years as majority leader. He served as Tommy THompson's Secretary of Health and Social services and then served as an executive for a private insurance company. In 2010 he jumped back in to politics, winning his seat once…

Directors & creators

Wisconsin Public Television

Subjects

public broadcasting, AAPB, Rebecca Blank, Tim Cullen, Tommy Thompson, Kara O'Connor, Shawn Schaff, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin Farmers Union, Wisconsin Safe Milk Coalition, Wisconsin Dairy Business Council, U.S. Department of Commerce, Act 10, raw milk regulation, Wisconsin politics, state senate retirement

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