Mornings with Pat Kreitlow

The US Senate this week is busy with some contentious nominees for President-elect Trump’s Cabinet, with raised voices and numerous controversies. Sean Duffy, by comparison, had smooth sailing as the…

The news story is like a scene out of “Tommy Boy,” where Ray Zalinsky was going to shut down Big Tom Callahan’s factory in Sandusky and slap his trusted name on Zalinsky’s brake pads. But this time, …

Paul Hambleton, a former state senate candidate in St. Croix County, talks about how important it is for former candidates not to walk away after an election loss but to stay involved in their commun…

Some law enforcement agencies in western Wisconsin have acknowledged using Eau Claire as a dumping ground—picking up homeless or mentally ill people who have not committed a crime, taxiing them to Ea…

Former Gov. Martin Schreiber joins us live to discuss the book he’s written about his experience as a caregiver for his late wife—his high school sweetheart—during her years-long struggle with Alzhei…

We hope you enjoyed your two-month reprieve from political ads because the Wisconsin airwaves are again about to be bombarded again with commercials about big elections—now that Scott Walker’s former…

We’ll visit with Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford, a Dane County judge who is running against Scott Walker’s former attorney general Brad Schimel for a pivotal role on the state’s hig…

We’ll review the Packers unsurprising but still unnecessarily harsh defeat in their Wild Card playoff game in Philadelphia. And America is in its last full week of what we’ll later look back on as “n…

We’ll discuss this week’s news headlines with a new weekly panel: veteran journalists Mark Jacob and Jennifer Schulze, former US Attorney Jim Santelle, and Civic Media afternoon host Todd Allbaugh. T…

As former President Jimmy Carter was memorialized on Thursday, courts were weighing in and deciding that President-elect Donald Trump would still be sentenced today for his felony hush money convicti…

On this first full week of work for members of Congress and the Wisconsin Legislature, we’re getting a classic demonstration of misplaced priorities—with lawmakers using their first days back at work…

Give Gov. Tony Evers some credit. Where other governors facing such a hostile legislature might have given up, Wisconsin’s top Democrat is going right to the voters on the subject of getting popular …

We now know who is running in nonpartisan elections across Wisconsin and whether any of the races will require a primary in February before a general election on April 1. We’ll update the choices for…

As the world’s billionaires compete for the affections of Donald Trump, users of Facebook and Instagram will notice something different: more misinformation. Trump himself is again putting on a sides…

This Is It: We’re about to have new leadership in Washington closer to Caddyshack than to Top Gun, our country is entering a Danger Zone. So we’ll have a Heart to Heart with Congressman Mark Pocan to…

Today’s music marks the birthday of Yacht Rock icon Kenny Loggins, so forgive the play on song titles—but we’ll feature social media manager Cherita Booker in our first hour to describe how things ar…

Gov. Tony Evers has seen enough of Republicans monkeying with the state constitution and wants Wisconsin voters to have a chance to directly propose and vote on amendments more in line with the prefe…

It’s an unfortunate coincidence that we share the same birthday, but UpNorthNews first came on the scene on Monday, January 6, 2020. One year later, an insurrection forever put a stain on that date—s…

State Senate Democratic Leader Dianne Hesselbein previews the upcoming session of the Wisconsin Legislature—one where Republicans have a much smaller majority thanks to fairer maps. But whether that …