Here & Now; 1244

Wisconsin Public Television · May 9, 2014

Here & Now, John Doe investigation, Judge Randa's decision to halt the John Doe investigation about illegal coordination between conservative groups and candidates in the recall elections and subsequent appeals and stays and injunctions and re-injunctions. Analysis by former State Supreme Court Justice and current Marquette Law School Professor Janine Geske who appears from Marquette poly. listening session, UW System President Ray Cross who joins us from UW Green Bay to talk about his state-wide listening sessions. Yahara 2070, Steve Carpenter, the Director for the UW Center for Limnology, joins Fred in the studio to talk about the work of the “Yahara 2070” project looks 56 years into the future, and what the watershed that encompasses the region including lakes Mendota, Monona, Wabesa and Kegonsa, COULD look like if climate change continues unabated. compassion project in la crosse, La Crosse Public Schools are in the midst of a “Compassion Project” with students—teaching tolerance and kindness in the process. Tim Riley of the La Crosse Public Education Foundation is in Madison, as is a project collaborator, UW Neuroscientist Richard Davidson of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds. B-roll: Compassion Project art work.