Mornings with Pat Kreitlow

America’s air traffic control system is a fragmented mess that will take many years and billions of dollars to upgrade. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy could spend his entire workday on that proj…

The world’s richest man once bragged he would use his fortune to solve world hunger, but now Elon Musk is announcing plans to start a new political party. Between his DOGE misadventures, his ill-fate…

Now that the state budget is done and President Trump’s federal plans are finalized, we’ll return to an area that the president said would be all summed up by now: 90 deals in 90 days. It’s been 90 d…

We’ll recap the holiday weekend, including the threat of disruption to the Minocqua parade that turned out to be a prank. We’ll discuss grilling, biking, streaming, live concerts, and the triumphant …

We’ll talk to financial expert Sean O’Malley about some aspects of the Trump budget boondoggle that aren’t getting as much attention—as limits on student loan borrowing and cuts to research funding a…

Wednesday’s state Supreme Court ruling invalidating a purported abortion ban provided an early window into the 2026 campaign—with challenger Chris Taylor saying that right wing Justice Rebecca Bradle…

The theme this week in Madison and Washington, DC has been late-night sessions in an effort to find enough unified Republicans to pass both state and federal budget bills. In Congress, that meant all…

In this week’s Climate Check, a lighter story about adaptation. The knock on solar farms has been that all those panels would restrict crop growth or grazing. It didn’t take long for folks to get cre…

Rep. Angela Stroud will give us the full picture of a two-part deal that will lead to the removal of more lead water lines in Superior. It required more than faith in a single bill that didn’t do eno…

We’ll review reaction to the new state budget deal, perhaps best summed up as having something for everyone to like—and hate. The Joint Finance Committee passed it on Tuesday, so the full Senate and …

We’ll review the newly-announced bipartisan state budget agreement with Dan Shafer of The Recombobulation Area. It’s a deal that falls far short of what you’d see if Gov. Evers and advocates of educa…

Heavy rain last week put limits on fieldwork for Wisconsin farmers. We’ll review the latest conditions with Hans Breitenmoser. And we’ll congratulate the Trump administration for needing only five mo…

It appears Wisconsin will not see a protracted budget crisis—but the deal ain’t done yet. Gov. Tony Evers and Republican leaders in the Legislature announced an agreement on a new plan for taxes and …

We’ll talk to Jeff Mandell of Law Forward about their group’s lawsuit against the world’s richest man, hoping to stop people like Elon Musk from ever again being so bribery-adjacent during Wisconsin …

On Saturday, North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis seemed like a rare “profile in courage” for the GOP, voting against President Trump’s big bloated boondoggle. On Sunday, Tillis announced he’d …

The US Supreme Court made a ruling on birthright citizenship that isn’t as broad as President Trump is claiming, but it does stretch out the legal fight to protect yet another basic right. Also: The …

Pat and Dr. Kristin Lyerly talk about Emily Tseffos new column in Dan Shafer’s website The Recombobulation Area, calling on Gov. Tony Evers to use all of the tools at his disposal to get a good state…

Former US Attorney Jim Santelle takes us through a flurry of US Supreme Court opinions being issued in the final days of their session—some of which reaffirm how extreme the right wing justices are t…