Mornings with Pat Kreitlow

We’ll talk to Joe Zepecki about today’s visit to La Crosse by Vice President JD Vance, another effort to spin the narrative on what’s in the Republicans’ package of massive cuts and record deficit sp…

Congressman Derrick Van Orden frequently talks about growing up poor and eating “government cheese,” which only makes it easier to identify him as a ladder pusher: someone who was able to take advant…

The new head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a woman with Wisconsin ties, is out of a job less than a month into her new role — and, predictably, it is setting off alarm bells thro…

Wisconsin is the scene of a new lawsuit that is taking on a familiar new approach to the impacts of a changing climate: the harm to children. We’ll talk to Melissa Baldauff about these youth-centric …

It would be enough for leaders from education, healthcare, labor, and local services to call attention to the damage being done by the Trump administration separately. Today in Eau Claire, they’ll do…

It’s the closest thing the United States will get to a royal wedding: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announced plans to get married. We’ll discuss whether the veteran football player and the billionai…

We’ll talk to Dan Shafer about the increasing popularity of cell phone bans in classrooms. We also look into various forms of hypocrisy in the Republican party.

Mornings with Pat Kreitlow is power…

We’ll talk dairy farmer Hans Breitenmoser, Sheila Everhart of the Wisconsin Agricultural Tourism Association, and Jean Bahn of the Farmview Event Barn about work they’d like to see the Legislature ge…

Vice President JD Vance is coming to La Crosse today, reportedly to talk up the unpopular Trump megabill—but also with a nod to the vulnerable congressman whose caustic comments get in the way of any…

How can you tell if someone’s considering a run for statewide office? It’s one thing to check their social media feed. But anyone can sound like a candidate from behind a keyboard. Check the odometer…

We’ll hear from AFT-Wisconsin president Jon Shelton about the qualities that voters should look for in Wisconsin’s next governor—for him and many other co-signers of a recent letter, there had better…

Vice President JD Vance gives the US another black eye, botching a basic historical fact as part of his effort to help Russia hold onto land it seized from Ukraine. And in the category of “How Is Thi…

Tomah Dr. Jill McMullen was recently featured in a video series by Pete Buttigieg, talking about the impact of Republican Medicaid cuts to rural health care in Wisconsin and nationwide. We’ll talk to…

Despite the many negative headlines and ample reason to worry about the future of our democracy, Mark Jacob reminds us that there are still Americans willing to stand up for American values. In polit…

A court commissioner in Walworth County is out of job after insisting that due process be followed in immigration matters, no differently than in criminal matters. Without the ability for a judge to …

Economic data shows that the Trump presidency is doing exactly what experts tried to warn us about. There’s a widening gap between the super rich and the rest of us. Trump’s trade war has weakened th…

With Lt. Governor Sara Rodriguez launching a bid to become governor next year, there will be a wide open race to take the number two spot in the state in 2026. Sarah Godlewski, the current secretary …

Gov. Tony Evers isn’t wasting time changing how business is done in the Capitol, now that the state Supreme Court has struck down one of the (many) ways Republicans in the Legislature had been blocki…

Congressman Derrick Van Orden can’t stop, won’t stop holding private events rather than public town halls to defend the damage being done to his refusal to stand up to President Trump. One of his upc…