As you go throughout Wisconsin's highways and byways, take on the day.
Take on the snow.
Welcome back to Civic Media this morning on the Civic Media Ready Network.
Greg Bach and Racine, Todd Aval in Madison.
We are filling in for a vacationing pack.
Crite Low, who will be back on Monday.
It is 21 past the hour of 7 o'clock on Friday, February 14th, 2025.
Welcome back, everyone.
That's a great song to get you going, Greg Bach.
Heck yeah, baby.
Good morning on Friday.
Absolutely.
Lots of fun.
Thanks for Brittany Burlow for stopping by.
Always brings it a fantastic segment as always.
And do be careful though.
out there on Wisconsin's roads.
As Brittany says, most of that snow will be starting somewhere between two and three o'clock this afternoon and then could be heavy at times as they say throughout the late afternoon evening and into tomorrow.
Several inches across the state of Wisconsin.
Taking a quick look at temperatures across the state again, still two below in superior right now.
It is warmed up nicely already to nine below zero in Eagle River this morning over in Hayward six below this morning.
It is six below in Eau Claire looks like eight below now in the Warsaw area two below in Green Bay up to five above very balmy over in La Crosse now at one above in Richland Center for below in Oshkosh.
It is three degrees in Milwaukee and it has dipped a little down to one degree above zero and Racine and Kenosha.
So how Greg's Greg's got to put on the leggings to make yourself.
I already had them on.
Aw, look at you, Greg Fogg.
That's fantastic.
So do bundle up this morning.
If you're going to work, drop the kids off to school and just be prepared for that snow moving in across most of Wisconsin later on this afternoon.
I want to spend a few minutes here talking about something we talked about on our show.
from noon until two yesterday had Eve Galanter on.
I've known Eve Galanter for a number of years.
She was the Madison director for former U.S.
Senator Herb Cole's office here in Wisconsin.
At the same time, I was working for former now former U.S.
Congressman Scott Kluge.
And although at the time we were on different sides of the political aisle, what always struck me about Eve is that
And people I think don't I guess I've been out of the quote-unquote business for a long time now I don't know that it works this way now, but it did then
I think to some degree it still does.
That for all the blustering that goes on publicly, when it comes to constituent case work, a lot of times what will happen is in the congressional office, we would say, hey, we want some gravitas of the U.S.
Senator and we'd call over on whether it was somebody needed a passport expedited or a social security check or, you know, countless things that legislators, elected officials do every day that
rarely gets reported.
But Eve was always great about making sure that Senator Cole and his office worked with us in tandem for the people of Wisconsin, which always appreciated about her.
Well, we're both long since out of politics.
Now, of course, I left the Republican Party in 2011.
But, you know, we talk about this Greg and our show, you and Jay have talked about it, other people, the lack of civic.
awareness, just how our government works, how it runs.
There's debate right now in the state legislature whether or not we should add back a civics class mandated in our school systems across the state.
Well, here's somebody, Eve Galanter, who now is on the Wisconsin Newspapers Association Foundation Board of Directors.
And a couple of three years ago, she
had pitched this idea of creating a civics games kind of think of the old quiz bowl back in the day and it's based on civics and and she was gonna call the civics bowl and her oldest grandchild said no grandma make it a games like you like the hunger games it'll it'll sell better to the kids and so she did and it's been phenomenally successful and what I love about it is anyone any high school student
I think you have to have at least two people and up to four on your team and you can sign up and you and it doesn't cost anything to sign up or to enter.
The only caveat is you have to be in a high school age.
It can be a public school, private school, home school and you have to have an adult as your advisor or or you know, as somebody who's consenting and going to be there with you.
And so they have regional playoff competitions or virtual by the way, you don't have to drive anywhere on April 9th and 10th and then the state finals
here in Madison are on May 2nd.
And the cool thing is the winners get a $2,000 scholarship to any university or college that they so choose to continue their education after high school.
And it involves, I mean, Eve quizzed me a little bit yesterday on the air, I did moderately, okay.
But I guess I didn't completely embarrass myself, but I didn't get every question either.
One of them was,
What was the one of the quiz questions was what?
Bill or whatever was signed into law in 1982 that was the first state in America to protect a right and of course it was based on sexual orientation and Ironically former Republican Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus was the one maybe not ironically, but looking back in current times to then it was Republican Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus who had been the Chancellor at UW Stevens Point before he was governor who signed that bill into law a Democratic legislature passed it a Republican governor signed it
and Wisconsin was the first state in the union to protect people based on their sexual orientation in the workplace.
So it's questions like that, questions on Bill of Rights.
A lot of it comes off of, Greg, I guess, what...
Naturalized citizens people who go through the naturalization process that course you have to pass an exam or a test and as many of those same questions that we expect our naturalized citizens to know that we're asking in our high school students in the in these civic games
I would I Of course thinking I do it great, but then as soon as they be like alright first question like oh god I'm gonna get this wrong and it's gonna be like who?
Who lives in the White House?
What what shocked me and I'm gonna get the number a little bit wrong But what shocked me yesterday one of the things that Eve said and recently there was a credible polling They've been doing this for the last two or three years.
It's like 25% or less of Americans can name all three branches of government I'm like wow
that unfortunately that doesn't surprise me because
We just don't, we don't make those, I mean, and those are just like little things, like those are the things that aren't gonna, they're not gonna get you a driver's license or a job
unless
you want to work in the government, but like, they're not, I don't want to say they're not key, but it just, it doesn't surprise me that people
don't know.
Not on top of
mind.
Exactly, like, and yeah, we should be teaching, but also, I also think that we should still be teaching auto repair in school as well, but you know.
I'm going to come back after this and talk a little bit more about this on the other side of weather update as well.
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