Mornings with Pat Kreitlow

Once upon a time, it seemed like the most shocking thing far-right politicians could do was require that women seeking abortion care first allow themselves to be violated through the use of an invasive type of ultrasound. They somehow found a way to make things worse. We’ll discuss a proposal by Wisconsin republicans that would […]

Guest: Dr. Kristin Lyerly

Fri Nov 21, 2025

43:56

We’ll review some of the week’s big stories with journalist Mark Jacob and former US Attorney Jim Santelle, who probably has some thoughts on the new US Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Among the stories: The US Coast Guard changes its policy on swastikas. Add that to your list of “words we never […]

Guests: Dr. Kristin Lyerly, Jim Santelle, Mark Jacob

Fri Nov 21, 2025

43:58

When Robert Kennedy Jr. was nominated to be the next US Secretary of Health and Human Services, he promised a member of Congress that the website for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would continue to say that vaccines do not cause autism, despite Kennedy’s anti-vaccine beliefs. Now we are shocked (shocked!) to discover […]

Guests: Jim Zons, Keya Vakil, Rebecca Cooke

Fri Nov 21, 2025

43:54

A new campaign of political ads warns voters in the 7th Congressional District up north about the dangers of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani. One problem: Neither is running for office in Wisconsin. One’s a New York City member of Congress and the other is the incoming mayor of New York City. But you’d never […]

Guests: Chad Holmes, Joe Zepecki

Thu Nov 20, 2025

43:55

Despite getting a full-time salary from taxpayers, the Wisconsin Legislature won’t be addressing any more challenges in 2025. Did you get your money’s worth from so many salaries and so few days in session? We’ll review what did and didn’t get done. Also: Sean O’Malley reviews the trickle of economic data coming out since the […]

Guest: Sean O’Malley

Thu Nov 20, 2025

43:52

Imagine a proposal that improves women’s health, making it easier to get critical health care during and after pregnancy, supported by nearly three-fourths of the Legislature — Republicans and Democrats alike — and one man is blocking it, using dirty tricks when necessary. If it were a Democrat, there would be a very public revolt. […]

Guest: Cherita Booker

Thu Nov 20, 2025

43:58

This week’s Climate Check adds to a string of stories we never thought we’d see in this nation again. The Clean Water Act of 1972 is landmark legislation that helped un-do generations of pollution. Now, the Trump administration wants to restrict how the Environmental Protection Agency can limit pollution dumped into wetlands. It’s a victory […]

Guests: Earl Ingram, Melissa Baldauff

Wed Nov 19, 2025

43:54

Wisconsin’s school funding system is a mystery to most people, but there’s an even bigger mystery out there: Gathering dust on a shelf is a comprehensive bipartisan plan to simplify and improve school funding in our state. Whatever happened to it? We’ll talk to two members of the 2017 Blue Ribbon Commission on School Funding. […]

Guests: Ellie Bourdo, Julie Underwood, Sondy Pope

Wed Nov 19, 2025

43:56

You might have heard how some politicians are described as either workhorses or showhorses. Somehow, Wisconsin ended up with a pugnacious pony. We’ll talk about Congressman Derrick Van Orden’s latest utterances, which are utterly embarrassing — especially if it turns out the Epstein files have something in there that would cause Van Orden to rethink […]

Wed Nov 19, 2025

43:54

With the government shutdown ending, Congress can get back to work doing… very little work. We’ll talk to COURIER’s Cam Stevenson in Washington, DC to see what kind of “normal” is returning to Capitol Hill. He also tells us about the searchable Epstein files database that he made with what is already available. And we’ll […]

Guests: Cam Stevenson, Dan Shafer

Tue Nov 18, 2025

43:54