4 Train Routes Funded, 3 Regents Flipping, 2 Journalists… and a Poor Elk Meets an Untimely End

The City Cast team is here to round up the news of the week. Bianca Martin and Hayley Sperling discuss the potential for new Amtrak train routes across Wisconsin, including service from Madison to Milwaukee. Also, it’s been a week of surprising votes from the UW Board of Regents, as they nix an deal with the legislature over diversity programs and funding for the state university system... and then abruptly reverse course.

Mentioned on the show:

• UW Regents approve deal on funding, engineering building with controversial re-vote [Wisconsin State Journal]
• ‘A huge win’: Madison Amtrak plan gets big lift with federal money [Cap Times]
• Derailed podcast [Wisconsin Public Radio]
• Bull elk spotted throughout Wisconsin killed by semi in Illinois [WKOW]

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