S1E19: COVID-19 coronavirus in Wisconsin: Week six - protests and counter protests
On Friday, roughly 1,500 protesters gathered on the state Capitol grounds to demand an end to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ COVID-19-related stay-at-hom...
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Front Page is a podcast that takes a look back at some of the Wisconsin State Journal's most interesting recent stories, and provides a glimpse behind the scenes at the reporting process that goes into the creation of those stories. For more information on the stories or reporters in each episode, visit madison.com/wsj.
S1E18: COVID-19 coronavirus in Wisconsin: Week five - where are the testing kits?
A plastics manufacturer, located in Baraboo, Wisconsin, claims to be one of two in the world able to produce the type of swab sticks needed for COVID-...
S1E17: COVID-19 coronavirus in Wisconsin: Week four - the effect of social distancing on the Madison curve
State and national leaders dubbed the first full week of April as "our Pearl Harbor or our 9/11 moment" in regard to the pandemic, and in the past wee...
S1E16: COVID-19 coronavirus in Wisconsin: Week three - will state-wide elections take place as scheduled?
The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic upended an already chaotic election season across the country and in Wisconsin. Over the past week, the state electi...
S1E15: COVID-19 coronavirus in Wisconsin: Week two - the impact on state-wide unemployment
Governor Tony Evers introduced the “safer at home” order in an effort to help slow the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Wisconsin. The order effe...
S1E14: COVID-19 coronavirus in Wisconsin: Week one - the response from officials and the impact on higher education
The COVID-19 coronavirus has ground everyday life to a halt in Madison and in many cities across the country, as well as the world. I spoke with heal...
S1E13: How Super Tuesday narrowed the field of Democratic Presidential Candidates
In the week leading up to and the week after Super Tuesday, the field of Democratic presidential candidates shrunk to three, Vice President Joe Biden,...
S1E12: The controversy behind Madison's push to land F-35s at Truax Field
The U.S. Air Force has considered Madison's Truax Field as one of its top choices for a home for its next generation fighter jet, the F-35, for over a...
S1E11: What Wisconsin learned about political polls between 2016 and 2020
Results of a new Wisconsin state-wide poll, released Sunday, show Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in a commanding lead ahead of the Democratic presiden...
S1E10: In a time of public health uncertainty, UW-Madison researchers look to the stars for new therapeutics
As antibiotic resistant bacterium become more prevalent, rendering antibiotics useless for a growing number of illnesses, researchers at UW-Madison ar...