Mornings with Pat Kreitlow

The party’s over. We wrap things up with a preview from Mike Clemens of Saturday’s Packers-Bears matchup. Mornings with Pat Kreitlow is powered by UpNorthNews, and it airs on several stations across the Civic Media radio network, Monday through Friday from 6-9 am. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on […]

Guest: Mike Clemens

Fri Dec 19, 2025

43:57

We’ll have one more go-round with our Week In Review panel and ask them “what have we learned” in 2025 — and how can we take those lessons and apply them toward getting our country back on track in 2026. Given that the president just renamed a nationally cherished facility as the Trump Kennedy Center, […]

Guests: Jim Santelle, Mark Jacob, Jennifer Schulze

Fri Dec 19, 2025

43:57

They say the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice… but that doesn’t mean there won’t be some injustices along the way. Donald Trump’s police state wins a round by securing a felony conviction for a judge who stood up for independent courts free from chaos, interference, and intimidation.We begin […]

Guests: Greg Bach, Luke Mathers

Fri Dec 19, 2025

43:54

It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy for those who want government to fail: Slash what’s working, blame government itself for being dysfunctional, rinse, repeat. We’ll talk to Joe Zepecki about the latest moves that reduce customer service and increase cynicism about how things work in Madison. Mornings with Pat Kreitlow is powered by UpNorthNews, and it airs […]

Guests: Joe Zepecki, Chad Holmes

Thu Dec 18, 2025

43:56

A new report by a nonpartisan research group needed more than 2,300 words to describe why this month’s property tax bills for 2025 are so much higher than last year. They really only needed a handful of words to connect the dots: A Republican Legislature passed the buck. Rather than contribute a fair share to […]

Guest: Sean O’Malley

Thu Dec 18, 2025

43:52

In Congress, a discharge petition is an extremely rare tool. A majority of members can sign it to force a full vote on a matter, even if the leadership wants to keep it bottled up. For the fourth time, House Speaker Mike Johnson has had his hand forced by members of his own party joining […]

Guest: Cherita Booker

Thu Dec 18, 2025

43:54

One of our favorite long-running stories on this show got the nickname “Pigeon Quest” because Melissa Kaye, from our Civic Media station in Wisconsin Rapids, embarked on a detailed mission to adopt a rescue pigeon. So, yes, we learned that rescue pigeons are a thing. Before we sign off, we wanted to get a final […]

Guests: Melissa Baldauff, Melissa Kaye, Earl Ingram

Wed Dec 17, 2025

43:00

We mark the final installment of Homeroom, our weekly segment about protecting public education in Wisconsin, with the two people most responsible for making it a prime focus of our show: Heather DuBois Bourenane, Chris Hambuch-Boyle and many more from the Wisconsin Public Education Network. We’ll explain the stakes of the 2026 election on property […]

Guests: Heather DuBois Bourenane, Chris Hambuch-Boyle, Ellie Bourdo

Wed Dec 17, 2025

43:00

There have been more unusual events in 2025 than we care to count — and one of the stranger ones took place Tuesday when Vanity Fair published the result of 11 (yes, eleven) interviews conducted with Trump’s chief of staff. Susie Wiles was extremely candid about the president and almost everyone in his inner circle […]

Wed Dec 17, 2025

43:00

There is no bottom: Donald Trump will always find a way to sink even lower than the last time you thought he’d couldn’t be worse. This time, Trump is getting a fair amount of criticism from fellow Republicans for a social media post about murdered director Rob Reiner. Makes you wonder who the real “Meathead” […]

Guests: Dan Shafer, Cam Stevenson

Tue Dec 16, 2025

43:58