Mornings with Pat Kreitlow

When it comes to public funding by legislatures, the University of Wisconsin System is already one of the least-supported in the country because of an ongoing Republican war against education. Now GO…

The big, bloated boondoggle of a budget bill working its way through Congress not only has massive cuts to Medicaid and other vital programs, it also tries to kill the tax credits that could create a…

We’re tracking the progress of the next state budget bill through the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee, including recent moves to maintain the gap between how Republicans support special educati…

The GOP-led Wisconsin Legislature fell all over itself to undermine Tony Evers and Josh Kaul after their 2018 election victories, passing laws in a lame-duck session to strip away powers from the inc…

Dan Shafer from The Recombobulation Area recaps last weekend’s state Democratic convention and reaction to his column about Gov. Evers and whether he should run for a third term.

Mornings with Pat…

We’ll talk to dairy farmer Hans Breitenmoser about President Trump’s latest flip-flop on farm deportations, or was it another fake? We’ll look at the latest wrench thrown into the lack of certainty f…

We’re getting the first unofficial indication from Republicans in the Legislature that they might decide not to write a new state budget bill at all. They’re so defeated by Gov Tony Evers' partial ve…

Author Laura Bird takes us through the genre of memoirs. She explains how they’re different than an autobiography—and she recommends several types of memoirs for your summer reading list. We’ll also …

Pat is joined by Salina Heller to discuss the No Kings protests that happened throughout the nation, meanwhile President Donald Trump had a little military parade. Jimmie Kaska joined the show to tal…

We saw America at its best and worst over the weekend. We saw millions of Americans gather to remind us we’re not alone in demanding better from our leaders—especially when those leaders embrace viol…

We talk to Judge Chris Taylor about her candidacy for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court next year, a race that might feature her going up against incumbent right-wing Justice Rebecca Bradley. We’…

We’ll talk to our Week In Review panelists about the latest effort by the Trump regime to have a permanent military presence in major American cities and a possible setback after a judge ruled the pr…

Republicans on the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee made official on Thursday what had been apparent a few days earlier: a refusal to meet Gov. Tony Evers in the middle when it comes to each sid…

We’ll talk to Chad Holmes about stories he’s following in the Wausau area. We check in one more time with Joe Zepecki ahead of this weekend’s Democratic state convention. And Sean O’Malley looks at h…

It appears to be happening again in the Wisconsin Legislature: Republicans appear to show some willingness to compromise on an issue, only to turn around and add what’s known as a “poison pill,” some…

A former top advisor to Gov. Tony Evers, Melissa Baldauff has some thoughts on a new column by our colleague Dan Shafer and whether the governor should follow his advice and decline to run for a thir…

In our Climate Check segment, Melissa Baldauff talks about Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s war on pollution controls for automobiles. She also has some opinions on a new Dan Shafer column calli…

It’s always hard to defend yourself when you can’t see your attacker. That’s certainly the case for public schools because taxpayers aren’t able to see how much of their money is being siphoned away …

That sputtering sound you’re hearing is coming from Republicans stammering about how their big bloated boondoggle of a budget bill doesn’t actually cut Medicaid benefits to deserving Americans—when i…