The City Cast team is here to round up the news of the week, and what a week it’s been. Executive producer Hayley Sperling digs into the city’s newly approved budgets, while host Bianca Martin unpacks election fallout, including racist texts sent to Black UW-Madison students and U.S. Senate hopeful Eric Hovde’s refusal to concede. Bianca also digs into an abortion case at the Wisconsin Supreme Court and Madison Minutes newsletter editor Rob Thomas gives an update to the Southside Elementary naming process. 

Also mentioned on the show:

How Madison neighborhoods voted on the city’s $22M referendum [Cap Times]

Holiday Fantasy Lights are up at Olin Park!

Top employee at Epic Systems apologizes after arrest on plane [WMTV]

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