Mornings with Pat Kreitlow

For all of the talk about federal budget cuts, there is also some new federal money being made available to schools — but it’s a trap. It’s being billed as a national tax credit scholarship program, …

We are live in Wisconsin Rapids to help WFHR celebrate 85 years of local broadcasting. We’ll talk to members of the Civic Media family about the historic role the station has played over decades of c…

We’ll catch up with Dan Shafer of The Recombobulation Area to discuss how Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is coming to western Wisconsin to help one of the Democrats trying to unseat US Rep. Derrick Van …

We’ll talk to former state legislator Fred Clark about how ridiculous certain Wisconsin politicians looked in sending a letter to Canada to complain about, you know, their country burning down. We’ll…

President Donald Trump recharged his autocratic batteries after meeting up with Russia’s dictator and is back to bashing a cornerstone of democracy: making voting easier for everyone who’s qualified …

John & Gordy join from Madison to talk about some international affairs after Trump gave Putin a photo op. Dr. Kristin Lyerly joins the show from a hotel as she travels back from her conference in Pe…

Wisconsin is unlike many states that allow ordinary citizens to collect signatures and put ideas on a statewide ballot for new laws or constitutional amendments. We’ll talk to two guests who recently…

We’ll discuss the Brewers’ extending their winning streak to a record 14 games before finally losing a game on Sunday. And we’ll discuss how Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has figured out the…

A new report from a nonpartisan research group outlines how the new Wisconsin state budget will draw down the multi-billion dollar surplus. That’s the data. Here’s the judgement: Good. A surplus isn’…

We’ll review the latest moves by the Trump regime with our Week In Review panel: whether it’s a military takeover of Washington, DC streets; sending armed, masked troops to a rally by California’s go…

There’s finally some movement in the legal case surrounding the mayor of Wausau taking it upon himself to remove an absentee ballot drop box from City Hall while echoing Republican talking points abo…

Living in an era where the MAGA far right can’t stop drifting further to the right, Wisconsin has a candidate for governor with a position on public safety that puts a sickening spin on the old Oprah…

The president’s extremism means no Republican incumbents should take their elections for granted in 2026, even a state senator whose district went for Donald Trump by 34 points last year. We’ll talk …

Leave it to a master narcissist to fire board members from the Kennedy Center, appoint new members who would vote to make him their chairman—and then name himself as the host of this year’s Kennedy C…

Wisconsin was the first state in the country to use President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act as a way to put money back in people’s pockets for projects that made their homes more energy efficie…

Naturally, the headline writers have to be brief and leave out context: “Evers vetoes portable benefits for delivery drivers.” The real story is how the governor vetoed the ongoing imbalance between …

Taylor Swift has mastered the art of album anticipation and has created another P.R. juggernaut with her next release, “The Life of a Showgirl.” It got us wondering what other albums were highly anti…

We’ll talk to Dan Shafer of The Recombobulation Area — less about politics this time and more about what he’s seeing in his hometown as Milwaukee takes stock of the damage from massive flash flooding…

The fall session of the Wisconsin Legislature features bills that lawmakers had hoped might make it to the new state budget, but now have to pass on their own merits. One would allow Wisconsin farmer…