Is Grandma a Deadbeat? (Hour 2)

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Well, hey there, Wisconsin.

Good morning.

It is 6.06 on this Tuesday morning, June 10th, 2025.

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So thanks for starting your day right here wherever you're catching us.

Parker Olson is standing by in Madison Studio A2.

After we talked to John and Gordy yesterday in A1, we understood that there is a difference.

There

is.

It's

very important.

That's the

big studio down the hall from Mr. Olson.

So I've got a question for you this morning.

What's the over and under on young Mr. Olson?

And when he starts becoming a coffee drinker because somebody was teasing me before the show about, you know, who's awake and who's not and who's had their coffee and who doesn't.

And if you've missed it earlier, Parker.

It's not yet a coffee drinker.

I'm not one to cast stones, not being a coffee drinker till I was just about 50.

But my overunderstanding, I'm going to take the under on that one as far as when Parker goes all in on the bean juice.

Yeah, the under is probably a good call.

I'm trying to see how long I can live on.

National Champion Parker, that's right, Tony Zimmerman.

Tony puts on YouTube, National Champion Parker, yes.

It's not, it's not going to be a nickname.

Tony, it's not going to stick.

He's, he gets to celebrate a national championship, but, but that's it.

Um, and Tony puts in his guests early morning radio.

I think coffee is coming.

Yes.

That could be, well, be the case.

And Alicia, thank you.

Good morning to you saying Twitter is so yesterday.

Oh, couldn't agree more, but she goes on to say, I'm not really a coffee drinker and I'm almost 41.

I survived the Navy without coffee.

Now that, I'd like to know how that happens.

That's impressive.

That is very impressive.

So already folks commenting on social media, YouTube, Facebook, but you can also do so through the Civic Media app or at least you could if I'd open up my window.

I'm doing the two screen thing now.

I started that not long ago.

Oh

yeah.

A laptop over on the other side here because I couldn't fit everything on one screen.

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to reach us as well or text us 855-75 Civic 855-752-4842.

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It is cloudy.

It is kind of hazy, not rainy.

And I still wouldn't.

I wouldn't say we're free of Canadian wildfire smoke up here yet either.

What are the conditions like down there in Madison?

I didn't notice any smoke today.

I don't think.

Might get a little rainy tomorrow.

I think today is like our only day of not rain this week

This this is yeah, apparently our only day of not rain and hopefully we'll get to talk to Brittany Merleau and get the forecast in a bit Tom and New Berlin on the text line ex-navy.

He says the gravy thick coffee yum Now we see what?

What did Alicia do on YouTube?

She puts four liters of Mountain Dew a day that no

Hit the but Parker hit the button for your genuine reaction to that for leaders of Mountain Dew a day.

I'm sorry.

What there it is.

That's right How do you have innards left?

Yeah, I don't think you should be alive

right now.

Oh, I yeah, I'm not really sure how she's processing food at this point Although Roger from Stevens Point jumps on Facebook two to one odds on Parker to consume the nectar of the gods I don't know that put my coffee in that category.

I mean, I'm a pretty good barista, but you know the nectar the gods Tony asking Alicia, do you glow?

The room just lights up when she walks in.

I mean, again, not casting stones for the, you know, starting in college and for at least a couple of years after that, I too, it was Mountain Dew in the morning.

I just don't know that it ever got to four leaders.

So that's a lot of Mountain Dew.

That's a lot of anything.

I know.

But look, look, she's still up early doing, you know, crazy good work.

She's doing all kinds of, you know, volunteer stuff, you know, on the side.

So.

Alicia, it's working for you.

So, you go.

You do that do as it were.

So, do you glow?

Alicia responds.

Now, I wasn't a nuke.

I was on the flight deck, which means she was guiding the airplanes in instead with that mountain dew glow.

On the program today, it's an off year for elections in Wisconsin.

That will not dampen the enthusiasm of delegates who are gathering this weekend in Wisconsin Dells for the State Democratic Convention.

Along with celebrating another state Supreme Court victory, they will be voting on a new state chair to succeed Ben Wickler.

Plus, there will be chatter about whether Governor Tony Evers will run for a third term next year.

We will cover all of that and more with Dan Schaefer from the Reconpopulation Area, Civic Media Political Editor.

Two of Medicaid's most vocal critics, as you know, come from Wisconsin.

Senator Ron Johnson and Assembly Speaker Robin Voss neither would hesitate to criticize or cut a program that has helped millions upon millions of Americans stay healthy for these past 60 years.

The thing is, their complaints lose a lot of credibility when they can't be honest about the number of deserving, hardworking people whose health care coverage would be lost if Trump's big bloated bill passes.

So we're going to review the rhetoric and again make the point that you can be opposed to Medicaid.

You can say you want to get rid of Medicaid, as I'm sure Rob and Voss and Ron Johnson want to do.

Just don't lie.

when you're telling us that you're making hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts and nobody who deserves the benefits are going to have their benefits cut a nickel as Derek Van Orden said because now you've crossed a line where you've lost your credibility and we'll get one example from Medicaid director Bill Hannah coming up during the program as well.

U.S.

Marines have occupied their fair share of land in their history from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Triple E and, you know, let's see, we've got the Philippines and Puerto Rico and Cuba and all of that, but President Donald Trump has a new battle plan for the United States Marine Corps, one that's wildly unconstitutional and designed for maximum division in America's second largest city.

We'll talk about that a bit this morning.

Community editor Christina Laurie talks about a milestone in professional hockey that puts Milwaukee front and center for celebrations of Pride Month.

And Chad Holmes gives us an update on spring high school sports championships and Wausau area news.

All of that coming up along the way as well.

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Let's head back over to the mailbag, which started innocently enough with having, you know, Parker drinking coffee and it led to Alicia's, you know, Mountain Dew addiction.

Tony says, so like Rudolph, but green to guide the planes in that makes sense.

But now Alicia says no, she laid off the Mountain Dew after she got out of the Navy.

That's the good news the bad news is she says last year.

It was at least two monsters a day two monsters a day That's

not as bad.

No, I can comprehend two monsters a day far

more than I

can four liters of Mountain Dew a day.

Yes, I Get like that's like an early morning getcha going and then like mid-afternoon You need one to get you through the day that makes sense to me.

I Don't know.

I mean isn't one of those Mount those energy drinks.

I mean

Has enough caffeine to bring down a horse?

Oh, yeah, but okay.

Well That's a little concerning Tony if you want to have a fun conversation in the chat you need to do it live with your YouTube and She says hey wait, I'm down to to Alani.

What's Alani?

Is that an energy drink?

I'm also no water with

Alani.

Oh wait yours.

You're supposed to be My expert on all things.

I'm very sorry

No, that's okay.

Tony, you know, three kids under five.

I've done coffee, monster, et cetera.

I'm not judging anybody.

Understandable.

Fair enough.

You know your place.

That's great.

Yep.

Yep.

Yesterday was the regular visit to the dentist's office.

And I don't get me wrong.

I love doing early morning radio.

I don't mind the early wake up time.

Again, what is the unofficial motto of this show and why I'm doing an early morning show?

The unofficial motto is I'm waking up that early to pee anyway.

I may as well get paid for it.

OK.

I didn't know

that

was our motto.

Yeah, I probably hadn't subjected you to that one yet.

Anyway, I do try to go to bed early.

Last night was a great example.

8 15.

Oh, that was that was great.

It it feels it's.

what sort I'm looking for decadent to have to close the curtains really tight close the bedroom door close the bathroom door so that no light gets in because the sun is still out and I'm going to bed it's a victory because if I don't like the night before when I you know didn't go to bed you know sufficiently early I'm in the dentist chair yesterday yesterday afternoon and the hygienist is making small talk while she's scraping and picking and scraping and picking and scrape scrape scrape and all that

And I figure at least a dozen times, I had what you would, I don't know if you'd call it a micro nap or, you know, just not, not quite dozing off, but where you, you have to open up your eyes.

Cause I've got, they, they give you a little goggles and I asked for the sunglasses one.

So again, it's dark.

And despite one of the most annoying and sometimes painful things that can be done, I'm like, nope, I'm going to steal a little wink here and a little wink there.

And that just didn't strike me as normal.

But no cavities.

Everything was in good shape.

And you know why the teeth were in good shape?

Because I stopped drinking Mountain Dew a long time ago.

Yeah.

It should not be taking shots at our wonderful veterans.

Like Alicia, who says, you got to remember Navy caffeine runs in my veins.

And she says, Hey, that's my motto for early morning work here too.

See, I knew I wasn't being very original on that.

But I just, it was just a good reminder to me.

You got to get enough sleep.

If you're falling asleep during the dental hygienists doing their thing, maybe, maybe you need to fix something

about that.

Yeah, that's pretty bad.

That's

a pretty bad sign.

And again, for people going, well, you should fix your sleep.

Like, yes, I know.

Doctor's appointment in two weeks.

We'll figure it out.

The Stanley Cup playoffs.

Not going well for any of us who'd like to see Edmonton beat a team from Florida.

The Panthers were big winners last night in game three, six to one.

So they've now gone up two games to one.

Game four in the Stanley Cup finals will be Thursday night in Miami.

The NBA Playoffs are tied at one game piece and that resumes tomorrow in Indianapolis.

The Milwaukee Brewers, again the bats fall in sleep against Atlanta this time, opening that three game series.

Atlanta beating Milwaukee seven to one.

Milwaukee's only run came in the third inning.

Joey Ortiz hit a leadoff double and scored on a William Contreras two out single.

but again that's all the offense that they could muster.

So they will pick it up again this evening for game two of the series and that again has a pregame that starts at 6.05 on several stations across the Civic Media radio network and then tomorrow the three game series wraps up with a matinee

And so tomorrow, the pregame will start at 12.35 in the afternoon.

So that's tomorrow.

This evening, it'll be at 6.05.

Again, catch the Brewers versus Atlanta, game two of that series.

We'll follow some of the day's headlines coming up here in just a bit first from the heart of America's up north, live from Lake Wissota.

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Again, Dan Schaefer coming up a little later this morning as we talk about the upcoming State Democratic Convention and some other political notes out of the Milwaukee area.

One of them being the ongoing crisis of lead in the water and lead paint chips in some of the

older school buildings there.

And you recall just what is it just a little over a week ago?

Was it that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr.

I always have to pause and do that again.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr.

I mean, I got to be honest, I still after all these years, I still find myself going President Donald Trump.

But yeah, this is the world we live in now.

Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr.

said that there was a team on the ground in Milwaukee.

That was either a lie or he just was making stuff up, didn't know what he was talking about.

And so the the lead crisis is still an issue there and it's still not being addressed by Kennedy's Health and Human Services Department.

How do we know this?

Because he's busy with other things.

Kennedy yesterday removed all 17 members of a scientific committee.

that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.

I think that deserves the Parker reaction button as well.

Let me do that again.

I'm sorry.

What?

There it is.

And replaced them with his own picks.

You will recall that Kennedy was one of the nation's leading anti-vaccine activists before becoming the nation's top health official.

I have to say that one again too, and I don't mean to twist the knife, but honestly, Kennedy, who was one of the nation's leading anti-vaccine activists before becoming the nation's top health official, has not said who he would appoint to the panel, but said it would convene in just two weeks in Atlanta.

This just has, you know, WWE written all over it.

Although it's typically not viewed as a partisan board, the entire current roster of committee members were Biden appointees.

So why get rid of them all?

Well,

because Kennedy wrote, without removing the current members, the Trump administration would not have been able to appoint a majority of new members until 2028.

He said a clean sweep is needed to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science.

I gotta read that one again.

A clean sweep is needed to reestablish

public confidence in vaccine science?

It is better with a question mark at the end of it.

A clean sweep is needed to reestablish public confidence in vaccine science?

So basically, in a nutshell, the people and no hyperbole intended here, but the people who quite literally killed tens, if not hundreds of thousands of Americans through their negligence and their inability to understand science.

are now in charge of science.

These are folks who got really unhappy about basic safeguards during the pandemic and they came across on the news as so angry, they're so angry.

Please keep in mind media that the people who believe in science are still equally angry if not more so at the damage they did to humanity and the damage they continue to do.

We have measles

killing people now.

We have measles spreading.

We have starving children in Africa literally dying because of this administration.

So, you know, as much as we try to be shiny, happy people when we can, the people who were so angry about basic safeguards are now the ones running the show in the Department of Health and Human Services.

What's not to get angry about?

And then I see this headline.

as we transition to what's happening in California and with migrants and things.

Headline in the journal Sentinel.

Can Trump ignore the courts?

Here's what polling shows Americans think.

No.

No.

Why would you even put that headline in there?

Can Trump ignore the courts?

Here's what polling shows Americans think.

That's not news.

That's not even remotely close to news.

That's chatter.

The news is a president of the United States is ignoring the courts.

What should happen next?

Not, well, the people that like him think he's doing a good job.

Same goes for bank robbers.

In the meantime, in California, Donald Trump is taking the next step in his actual insurrection.

Yes, he's been referring to the folks in California as insurrectionists, the president who pardoned actual insurrectionists.

This is the next step in his insurrection of the United States.

He's sending another 2,000 National Guard troops along with 700 Marines to Los Angeles Escalating a military presence that local officials and the governor don't want and the police chief says creates logistical challenges for safely handling protests Here's what we mean by logistical challenges if you've maybe seen the photos Trump sent these troops in Without any advanced planning without any any thought on how to feed them

where they're going to sleep.

You see them all laying in like storage room floors inside of buildings and things.

If anybody is truly disrespecting our troops right now, it's Donald Trump through using them, deploying them under false pretenses, ripping them away from their homes and their home bases where they could be ready for genuine emergencies for this made up one over protests because of stepped up enforcement of immigration laws.

And

The thing that I think people did a good job pointing out yesterday is this.

There are far more people who were deported in any given week under the Obama administration and under the under the Biden administration.

More people were deported.

But it didn't require the National Guard or Marines because of the way they handled it.

They handled it the way law enforcement should be done as opposed to what Trump is doing on purpose making this a show.

This is all a show, and that's why you're having Marines activated.

Not yet deployed, but trust me, if one Marine sets foot on the streets of LA and has to fire a weapon, it will mark a new stain that can never be erased in American history.

Keep your eyes on that.

Christina Laurie is on the way.

Also your Scotty summer text to win contest keyword is coming up at the top of our next hour here powered by Up North News on the Civic Media Radio Network.

The Midwest Farm Report is next.

Welcome back 635 pack right low in Chippewa Falls Parker Olson in Madison Christina Laurie joining us in a moment and folks watching us on social media We'll see that we've got a website on the bottom of the screen there that says up north news wi.com slash sports dash newsletter

sports dash newsletter.

And that's something Christine is going to be talking to us about in just a bit.

But I did want to solve one of the Parker coffee mysteries here, where on YouTube, Alicia said, Hey, I'm down to to Alani.

And then Tony asks, does Parker drink bubbler?

Those have as much caffeine as a cup of coffee, according to the marketing.

And then Alicia says Alani is like bubbler.

No, and Tony says ah But here so it's bubble but bubbler is different than is it bubbly at the one at Michael buble?

No, no, no, yeah different thing Okay, okay where he wants to call it buble, but it's actually bubbly.

Yeah, but it's not the same as bubbler Not the same things that you you don't want to yeah, you don't want to get the wrong one there and give it Give it to your little kid here Timmy have some bubbler.

It's just water straight water guys

Enough of the water.

But apparently not the bubbler has got the caffeine in there.

Anyway, I mentioned the sports newsletter because Up North News is now a seven day a week joint.

All day, all week, you can open up your inbox and find a newsletter of some sort.

The weekday ones with Wisconsin news and features.

And then the Sunday morning one about Wisconsin politics that I put together.

And Christina has now been putting together one related to sports.

So again, Up North News W I dot com.

slash sports dash newsletter and she joins us now to talk more about that and then some but we'll start Christina.

Good morning by asking where you are on the coffee versus water versus Mountain Dew dial of morning beverages.

Oh, wait a minute.

Sorry, Christina didn't hit the right button.

There we go.

Where are you on the beverages in the morning?

I have a very unpopular opinion.

I'm so boring.

I only drink water.

I don't like carbonation.

I don't

like coffee.

I don't like alcohol.

I'm just, I am a bore.

So I'm sorry.

I contribute a lot to this.

When I did work in morning TV, as adventurous as I would get, sometimes when I needed an extra jolt, I would go for some iced tea.

That's

about as crazy as I get.

Okay.

All right.

Sounds good.

Oh, I thought Parker was reacting there.

Sorry about that.

Also, let's start with a little bit of sports on, you know, a bit of a bittersweet note.

Roger and Steven's point puts on Facebook.

Excellent article, Christina, on coach Pettigau.

He will be missed for folks who might have missed that story.

Tell us about that real quick.

Yeah, so he was the winningest coach in Wisconsin High School boys basketball history.

He coached at Cuba City, small town of just about 2000 people.

The head Wisconsin men's basketball coach Greg Gard actually grew up.

going to his basketball camps.

Later, he became a mentor of his.

He was also really close with Bo Ryan.

If anyone ever watched any of the high school boys' basketball state tournaments, if Pettigo's teams were not playing and winning them, it seemed like Cuba City was frequently in that tournament.

I believe that he...

ultimately won three state titles in his 50 years as head coach there.

But, you know, even in his later years, when his team didn't make it there, he would still be on the mic at those tournaments.

And just everyone who I talked to that had ever come in contact with him, or even just watched him, loved him.

So, I mean,

It reminds me of this quote that I like that says, people will forget what you did, what you said, but they'll never forget how you made them feel.

And that really seems to be his legacy.

He, he literally put Cuba City on the map.

And by that, I mean that, you know, one of the things that people like to do during the tournaments is brush up on their Wisconsin geography.

And yes, there were a number of times where I, like other people go, where's Cuba City?

And you'd pull out your Rand McNally and you'd find out where that one is or peccatonica was another one that people would be like, wait, what is that?

Where is that?

all kinds of great ways to learn about Wisconsin just through the schools and the tournament.

Absolutely, and it's funny as coming from someone who was born and raised in Illinois, I had heard of Cuba City and it was because they were so good at sports,

so.

Mm-hmm, yep.

Although it reminds me, we also, I always love when people are like, what's spash?

Where's Spatch?

Now, Spatch was never used in tournament lingo for Stevens Point area senior high, but still the best name ever for a high school for Spatch.

Oh, it took me a while to figure out what the heck that

was.

I still like it to this day.

Let's see.

In other sports notes that I wanted to ask you about, we have an interesting intersection here of professional sports and Pride Month, and it's based out of Milwaukee, out of the hockey world.

Yes, so this isn't really a collaboration we see far too often.

Unfortunately, I think there are some gay professional athletes that are not out, is what I'm trying to say.

But in Milwaukee, we have a really brave Milwaukee Admirals defenseman, Luke Prokop.

He made history back in 2021 as the first NHL contracted player to public...

publicly come out as gay.

And then in 2023, he made history again when he officially took the ice for his first game with the admirals, becoming the first American hockey league's athlete to play in a game.

And then just this past weekend, he served as Grand Marshal of Milwaukee's Pride Parade.

Really awesome.

He received a great community welcome and

especially now it's so important to have allies as well as really great role models in the LGBTQ community because we see what some leaders are trying to do and trying to act like Pride Month doesn't exist.

So

it's nice to have some very, he's still, you can't question that he's a man.

He plays one of the most rough sports out there.

And then he's out there waving the rainbow flag, which is just fantastic.

It shows people everywhere.

You can be whoever you want to be.

Yeah, exactly.

We're talking to Christina Laurie and she puts together not just the Monday through Friday, Up North News Daily newsletter, but a new all sports edition that comes out every Saturday.

And I know this past Saturday, for example, you know, you were

talking about the, you know, the week of streaks and how nice things have been going for the, for the crew before this past weekend.

The past few days have been a little rough here.

I want to say that symbolically it started with Brandon Woodruff taking that line drive off the elbow on his way back to recovery.

Oh

man.

I just, I don't you feel so sorry for him.

Like

you

really, you couldn't script a worse combat.

I mean,

it's just he's doing everything right and he's just getting the worst luck But but really out of all of the challenges the Brewers are having this season pitching I mean you would think that that would have caused them some problems based on the number of guys they still have on injured reserve and That's not their issue.

They've been stellar with pitching.

They have such a deep bunch there.

They just really need

some offense.

Yes, yeah.

The ongoing reaction to Aaron Rodgers signing with the Steelers has been very satisfying.

At no point have I ever heard anybody say, oh, we should bring him on for one last season and let him retire as a packer or anything like that.

Instead, it's more memes like, oh, finally Aaron Rodgers gets one more chance to crush Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl dreams the way he did back in 2011.

Well, I also saw an interesting stat so if so history could be made in that Packers Steelers game because if somehow which I Hate to even say this because I don't believe it's going to happen one iota But if the Steelers did beat the Packers Aaron Rodgers would become the first quarterback ever to beat all every team in the NHL

Yeah, oh really

yes, so

I mean, we know he beat every other team when he was a Packer.

We

know a lot of that history was not made these past two seasons with the Jets.

But we have to give a shout out to our QB1, Jordan Love.

He immediately, when reporters asked him what he thought of being able to finally face

Aaron Rodgers, since they've never played each other professionally.

He said, and he seemed very genuine.

He said that he's looking forward to it, and he hopes they can swap jerseys after the game.

So that's our guy.

I'm so proud that he represents the Packers now.

We had

some questionable morality in recent quarterbacks.

Yes.

The definite breath of fresh air, if you will.

I did want to ask you to move away from sports for a second here, but I know how much you love to write about the UW and UW Madison.

And so I'm sure it was with great pride that you noted that there's a new global ranking out there.

And first off, here's a little bit of trivia for folks who wondered.

I didn't know this.

Worldwide, how many colleges and universities are out there?

How many universities?

21,462.

And there is apparently an annual ranking from the Center for World University Rankings.

And the headline on the article here from you is just 0.2% of universities are better than Wisconsin according to a new global ranking.

That had to feel like a good story to write up.

It did and especially now because it shows how interconnected all universities are.

Right?

Like we're on this international list that comes at a time when our president is trying to demonize international students and limit them getting here.

But there are large reasons why Wisconsin is so high on this list.

Wisconsin has about 10% of its student body that are made up of international students.

They bring a ton to our university.

They bring a ton to our faculty.

And so Wisconsin ranked very highly on that list.

I don't have the list up in front of me.

I think they were like around 30.

the 30th in the world, which again is, you know, the top 0.2% and 20th in the United States.

You know, and broken down by category includes and again, this is worldwide, 38th in education, 34th in faculty, 45th in research, 115th in employability, again, out of more than 20,000 universities worldwide.

And you

know what's interesting is that they keep climbing because I was extraordinarily nerdy in high school.

So I was very familiar with the top 50 list of American colleges.

And so this was back in around 2010 when I was applying to colleges.

And I didn't even apply to Wisconsin because they were not ranked high enough.

in my mind at the time.

And instead, I went to University of Illinois.

I'm from Illinois.

My entire family went there.

That was not really a question that I'd end up going there.

But now in the past three years of the US News and World Report rankings, they've been tied with Illinois in those rankings.

So that's really impressive that they just keep climbing up.

I believe that they're going to surpass them.

one of these years soon.

I can totally see that.

Uh, folks want to hear and read more from Christina.

Of course, we told you about the sports newsletter, the daily newsletter, but it says here on my little radio schedule that tomorrow evening in the seven PM hour, you're going to be joining Pete Schwabba on his nightlight program to talk a bit more about sports I would imagine.

That is correct.

All right.

I'm

going to be making the rounds.

So I, I wonder how much crossover there is though between people who are up

at this time listening to the radio and then people who are listening to the radio at seven

been wondering the same thing.

So you you get on there tomorrow evening in the seven p.m.

hour with peach waba and try to spread around the the notes about getting on board this new sports newsletter up north news wi.com slash sports dash newsletter Christina Laurie.

Thank you so much.

Have a great day.

You too.

Thanks so much for having me

on that.

You bet.

Coming up next is today's history lesson.

Like we always do, Mornings Up North powered by Up North News here on the Civic Media Radio Network.

Little

hot fun in the summertime by Sly and the Family Stone.

Sly Stone died on Monday.

The singer-songwriter

Maestro of Sly and the Family Stone had a run of hits in the late 60s and early 70s that basically redefined the big, beautiful intersection of pop, funk, rock, R&B, soul, gospel, hits included to everyday people.

Dance to the music.

I want to take you higher.

Family Affair, and thank you for letting me be myself again.

Sly Stone was 82 years old today, and I believe it was John Roach, friend of ours on Facebook, who put up a clip to Sly the Family Stone doing Doris Day's Kei Sarasara, which you think, what can you do with that?

Turn it into a soul gospel version.

that I would highly recommend as well.

So again, happy trails to Sly Stone.

Let's carry on with today's history lesson, bringing in Dan Hagen from NewsWatch 12, WJFW and Rhinelander.

Daniel, how are

you?

You hit me with the Daniel Patrick.

Good morning.

And that's reserved for my mother only.

I thought that was

Dan Daniel.

That's my so my sister called me Daniel growing up because she wanted a sister so bad.

Well, here's the thing, my mom goes from

What's your name again?

Yes, yes.

I know.

You ever get the dog's

name in there?

I get the dog's name.

Yeah, we don't have a dog.

Girls probably.

Yeah.

I would throw the dog in occasionally just for comedic effect when I couldn't remember which name I was shouting at.

Like Sam, Casey, get over here.

You, get over here.

Dan Hagan is with us now and let's continue the history lesson.

Happy birthday to the lead singer of the Charelles, Shirley Owens, is 84 years old today.

This, of course, is the Carol King masterpiece.

Will you love me tomorrow?

that she would do herself later on, but the Charelle's had it first with Shirley Owens.

The United States Naval Academy graduated its first class of students.

So congratulations to the Naval Academy, Alicia and all the other Navy vets out there who I'm sure are marking the day in one way or another.

On this day in 1898 in the Spanish-American War, U.S.

Marines began the invasion of Spanish-held Cuba in the Battle of Guantanamo Bay.

The number one song this week in 1972 is one that I wanted to play just for Dan and Parker here.

You may have heard of Sammy Davis Jr.

I doubt that you heard this song, especially when it was on the radio all the time, like it was for me when I was eight years old.

Here's Sammy Davis Jr.'

's number one hit this day 53 years ago.

It's

a great eight-year-old song, I feel.

Yes,

absolutely.

Yeah.

I do feel like I've heard this before,

actually.

You probably have.

But.

Do

you think that would really fly today?

A grown man saying, hey, I got candy for you.

Definitely not.

Did you play Candyland while listening to the song?

Yes.

Yes, that would be much more appropriate, you know?

Let's see, so that was the number one song in 1972.

Born this day in 1922, Judy Garland.

Born Frances Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minnesota before she went on to become a child star and would play Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz at the tender age of 17.

All right, this next musical clip is from TV history and Parker here was not familiar with this.

Dan, I don't know about you.

If I mentioned the series finale of the Sopranos,

Do you understand the cultural touchstone?

I do.

Okay, so

let's set this up for folks that the Sopranos, this little mob drama series and the family is in a diner and they're eating and people are coming in and out and there's a song that he put in on the jukebox and the last thing you see is Tony Soprano looking up.

Here are the last 10 seconds or so of the Sopranos.

They're eating and people coming in.

Daughter comes running at, I think, one point.

And you're thinking nothing of it.

It's like how we're just grabbing things up.

Tony looks up.

And that's it.

That was it.

It cut to black.

All kinds of people thought there was a technical issue.

Until they realized no that's exactly how they wanted the series to end and Parker's reaction to this yesterday Went like this.

I'm sorry.

What?

I just I Pat I know that I'm missing like however many years of context that the show had but that's a terrible ending

Well,

that's what

a

lot of people thought Dan

I didn't know if it was necessarily reviled or not.

Wasn't there a big controversy whether did he die

or something?

That's the thing.

They wanted you because again you see these ominous people.

You knew people are always out to get him.

Did the series in fact end?

Was he like killed in the next moment or was he not?

And he just continues to live with the danger of there's always people out there who want to kill him.

And the show, the show writers decided not to answer that you decide what happens next to say, it's a, you know, choose your, choose your warrior.

That's such a cop out.

I don't

like it.

I kind of like it.

I think it should be open ended because it leaves some room to the imagination.

I will say the Seinfeld family.

I love Seinfeld just did not like it at all.

I feel like not like the show at

all.

That one and how I met your mother were two of the most unsatisfying series finales.

ever.

You know, you've got some masterpieces like MASH and New Heart and some others.

Cheers wasn't bad.

But then, and the Sopranos was at least controversial.

I don't know that anybody talked about one more than that.

So we've got all of that going on.

On the national day calendar, it's National Ballpoint Pen Day.

And

it's

also, it's also Black Cow Day, the beverage, in other words, another term for a root beer float.

It is iced tea day and it's

Egg Roll Day.

Dan, can you hang around a bit?

I understand there's a nice little fundraiser that folks are doing that you're talking about up in the Rhinelander area.

Are you available?

Yeah, let's do

it.

All right, you do that.

And then we'll do the seven o'clock news.

Then we'll have the Scani summer text to win keyword all two more hours to go as we get rolling on one of these Tuesday mornings powered by UpNorth News.

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At 7 0 6, it's nice to have you back here up north on this Tuesday morning, June 10th.

Coming up later this hour, we will discuss the Medicaid cuts contained in President Trump's big bloated budget bill.

Yes, they are cuts.

We'll hear from the Wisconsin Medicaid director with one example of many to keep in mind when people tell you there's no cuts in there.

Let's connect some dots, shall we?

So we'll be talking about that coming up in just a little bit.

Dan Hagen from NewsWatch 12, WJFW is with us.

We're going to talk about silent sports around some lakes up north and contrast that with a story we talked about last week about

banning wake boats, you know, the kind that can kick up really big waves and possibly do damage.

But now those bands are going to be tied up in lawsuits.

And so we'll talk a bit about that with Dan coming up.

But first meteorologist, Brittany Merleau is here as well to talk to us about a day that might be the best one of the week weather wise.

Yeah, I mean,

unless

you want to be out playing in the rain all the time.

But assuming most of us would like at least one day off from the rain, this might be it.

This is going to be it.

Today is the day.

We've got a high pressure system down to the south that is slowly building in.

So we're seeing some sunshine already across the state line south.

More and more sun will work its way north as we go through this afternoon.

I think the place where the clouds might hang on the longest is going to be in the Fox Valley.

But by this evening, they will clear on out of here.

We're not looking at any rain in the forecast today.

It should stay dry.

Again, this high pressure system building in now.

It does want to hang on a little bit for a lot of the state tomorrow, but then.

We've got another front pushing through and another low pressure system right behind it that of course is going to bring some more showers and storms late tomorrow night.

Overnight and into our Thursday, of course, that starts the unsettled pattern.

We have chances for more showers on Friday and even lingering a little bit into Saturday too.

And as that rain and that cloud cover moves in, it's going to drop our high temperatures.

So today we're going to go to the low to mid 70s all across the state, maybe even near 80 far west by the Mississippi and then some mid 60s far northeast, mostly sunny for a big chunk of us.

And of course, the last light of sun.

Sunsets.

Oh my gosh, 922 were hanging out of that last light.

So much, much longer days and then of course tomorrow very warm.

We're going into the mid 80s far south to mid 70s far north.

So nice and comfortable.

Very comfortable indeed.

Rob says good morning from Tigerton, partly cloudy, 55 degrees, just over a half inch of rain yesterday, hoping for sunshine today so I can be doing my lawn mowing jobs in Wittenberg.

He said yesterday the weather felt like.

October cool and rainy.

I actually wore a hoodie to my dentist appointment yesterday.

It was it was very comfortable most of the time.

We talked we played a little Sammy Davis Jr.

last segment and he said 1972 is famous not just for Candy Man but his appearance on All in the Family when he kissed Archie Bunker on the cheek.

That was again just this groundbreaking moment in TV which sounds really quaint now but it was a very big deal back then.

I wanted to ask you as well Brittany before we get to this kind

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What, uh, what do you got?

Sure.

I'm a coffee 100%.

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It's probably the last four to five years I started that.

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Now I've switched to coffee.

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Rob says diet, sun drop.

Well, of course, because it was sun drop days.

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So there you

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So thank you, Brittany.

We'll check in next hour.

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Let's see, Tony says, Dr. Pepper needs to be mentioned.

I don't drink as much now, but I used to drink a lot.

I have to say, I don't know the difference between all the artificial sweeteners and things.

I definitely am not a, I'm no longer a Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi fan, any of the diet sodas.

But this trend of zero sugar ones, Dr. Pepper zero sugar, there's Barks zero sugar.

And then the one I drink most often is Coke zero, Coke zero sugar.

I don't know which one is different, but I am worried a bit Parker and Dan that maybe I'm going to glow as much as Alicia does for that four liters of Mountain Dew a day.

You know that as

pertain the as pertain my I've heard bad things about it But then you read more and it's like oh you have to drink seven Mountain Dews every single day for it to actually be bad for you

So

I just I'm just a coffee drinker.

I just you know,

oh, I know but there's plenty of artificial sweetener in my coffee, too I mean again Parker, what's the one thing I don't want my coffee tasting like?

Oh

Coffee,

the correct answer is coffee.

Yeah, exactly.

Flavor that baby up, you know.

All right, Matt, what do you

put in that thing

then?

Let's get it out.

My favorite is the peppermint mocha one from a coffee mate or whatever, which used to be just a Christmas thing, but apparently enough of us with a sweet tooth, they now sell it all year long.

So there's usually a little peppermint mocha.

All right, so what I

do is I do whole milk and I do some maple syrup, you know, keep

it

standard.

Maple

syrup and coffee.

Maple syrup.

Oh yeah.

All right.

I like that.

Uh Dan Hagen with us from WJFW News Watch 12 and when we were talking about stories that he's been covering or following up in the Rhinelander area, there's one that kind of uh ties in from a story we talked about last week from up in Burnett County where uh two different landowners out of state landowners on a lake up there uh have sued because the local I think town board up there

put in place a ban on these wakeboard, these wake boats, these boats that are modified to give you an extra big wake that you can basically, you know, surf on, put your, put your boogie board on there, whatever the case.

And they're trying to sue to get thrown out.

Quite conversely, Mr. Hagen, you're covering a story about, I guess I didn't even think to appreciate this.

Up in your neck of the woods, there are things that are classified as non-motorized lakes.

and trying to encourage more of what are called silent sports around those areas.

Yeah, that's right.

So this couple from Sheboygan County were vacationing in the Northwoods for a long time.

They bought a place in the 90s on a non motorized lake.

They didn't even realize it was a non motorized lake until they had the property of their hands.

The last name is Strube and they've been here so long and they've appreciated the silence so much, the serenity of it all that they've started

a natural wonder fund through the Rhinelander Community Foundation and what they're trying to do is promote more silent sport activities and what they're doing with this fund is they're connecting donors to investments in silent sports.

This could be a bike trail, it could be a disc golf course, it could be just some infrastructure for a park.

It's just a way to kind of bolster silent sports because there's a lot of investment in the motorized sports I'm not an ATV or a UTV or I hear it's fun I'm over a silent sports person myself So it's just kind of cool to see because Ryan Lander could use more of this investment

Oh, absolutely.

And again, it takes all kinds.

And in fact, funny that you say that, I realized I saw a headline and I hadn't called it up yet.

The new tourism numbers are out.

This always throws me because National Tourism Day is like right before Memorial Day.

And every year we do the story and we have to always say in the story, the new tourism figures are not out yet.

And then a couple of weeks later, they're out.

So yes, in fact, here they are, the governor's office put out that

along with Tourism Secretary Ann Sears, that Wisconsin's tourism industry saw its third consecutive record-breaking year of economic impact, garnering $25.8 billion in total economic impact, or about $70 million a day.

And again, all kinds.

You need all of it out there.

There will be disagreements over what you can do where.

But I mean, especially up where you are, the diversity of activities is what's giving us that $70 million a day impact.

That's a big deal.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

And fishing is a big part of that.

We've got to keep our waterways clean.

And you know, Vilas County, if you've ever been up there, Pat, they have this thing called the Heart of the Vilas Bike Trail.

And it connects Saint Germain all the way to Mercer on these paved bike paths.

It's really like...

some of the best bike paths in the country.

And it's underutilized.

No, I love the expansion of bike paths.

It was really cool here when an old rail line was paved and became part of the old Abe Trail running up along the Chippewa River here.

But getting back to the strobes who are putting together that fund, again,

the

Natural Wonder Fund, right?

Yeah, Natural Wonder Fund.

And it's part of the Rhinelander Community Foundation

So if you want to learn more about it, go to rinelandercommunityfoundation.com.

Nothing tricky about that, rinelandercommunityfoundation.com.

And that's how you can learn a bit more about that.

Although I'm sure I mentioned Burnett County, I'm sure there are other lakes up around your area where these wake boats are and people hear about these bands and are wondering, hey, wait a minute, can I get one of those bands on my lake?

I'm sure there's disagreements in some spots.

Yeah, I've been to some listening sessions from our local legislators, Senator Maryfelskowski and Representative Rob Swaringen, and it is like the most controversial topic.

It doesn't matter what time of year it is.

Just lately, it's been a lot of people harping on that because they've been trying to get some regulations on it, but there's been really no agreement in the legislature.

So I know a lot of people are passionate about it on both sides and it seems like it can be really damaging to a lake if it's a small lake.

Oh yes and so again a time and a place for everything and there certainly are lakes that are capable of handling you know these you know wakes of the size but

It's not just that the wakes affect you going, let's say, left and right, but also going down.

And if you're in a shallow lake, it also affects the lake bottom, which stirs up things.

you know, again, we we just want all things in moderation.

When you when you have that diversity of activities, you make for a beautiful place to play, even a beautiful place to live.

Dan Hagen does and that's why he's doing the news up in Rhinelander at WJFW News Watch 12.

Thanks for sticking around a bit and telling us about the the work to promote silent sports out there.

Always good to be here, Patrick.

All right, Daniel.

We'll talk to you next week.

Have a great day.

Yeah.

All right.

Sports right now at 719, not a stellar performance by the Brewers scoring only one run.

Atlanta scored seven.

I believe that means they won.

Yes, they did.

Seven to one, they'll do game two of the series tonight in Atlanta.

Once again, coverage begins at 6 0 5 across the Civic Media radio network where we do things here in the mornings powered by Up North News.

I'm Pat Crightlow.

We'll be right back.

Welcome back to mornings powered by up north news or as Tony puts it on YouTube powered by up north news and an assortment of caffeine True guilty well except for Parker.

It's also you know powered by water Just nothing water, baby.

Nothing but what not even one of those little flavor packets crystal light or anything like that.

No,

and I'll tell you what Pat The water that we have here in the Madison office is not good.

It's bad water.

It's so bad

It's in water.

I know.

I mean, no, it's the like the water coolers ones that they bring in.

It's

well,

some of those, you know, I mean, probably I'm not saying that's the case where you are down there.

But some, you know, drinking fun, who thinks to change some of those filters have been changed since the Ford administration, you know, so.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, but I'm sure I'm sure it's healthy.

I'm sure it'll do you no harm whatsoever.

Assembly Speaker Robin Voss was on upfront the WISN TV program that is shown statewide on Sunday mornings.

And once again, after the usual lines about, you know, whether he and Governor Evers can reach an agreement on the budget, he was asked about the big bloated boondoggle of Donald Trump's budget bill.

And it's massive cuts and as if he was concerned about the cuts to Medicaid and snap food share benefits and Voss's words, I'd rather just read them.

I don't care to play the audio the way he says it so dismissively.

He says, I'm not at all worried.

I think there is so much hyperbole and exaggeration from my friends on the left.

There are not cuts for anybody who's watching.

There are not cuts in Medicaid.

When they tell you there are cuts, it is untrue.

And that's a line they continue to stick with, you know, including Donald Trump, who promised in February during a Fox News interview, he said, quote, Medicare, Medicaid, none of that stuff is going to be touched.

One day later.

He endorsed the House Republican budget plan that cuts hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicaid, more than $600 billion.

And of course, they don't want to stop there.

You know, Ron Johnson has said as much.

So have others.

Kevin Kramer, the senator from North Dakota, said in one interview, how much waste front abuse is there in Medicare?

Why don't we go after that?

I think we should.

Senate Republican leader John Thune said, I think anything that is waste, fraud, and abuse are obviously open to discussions, which gets us to one of the main points of this program about getting rid of waste, fraud, and abuse.

You, dear listener, you are the waste that they want to cut because you are not a billionaire.

And so the money that you pay in taxes that might come back to you through Medicaid or through

better schools or clean air.

They want that money going elsewhere to the very wealthy as a tax cut.

Not coming back to you as some kind of tax rebate, but actually leaving you and going to people much wealthier than you.

So who all is in this waste fraud and abuse category?

Well, Wisconsin Medicaid director Bill Hannah was also on up front on WISN.

And here's one example that he gives that I think a lot of folks can relate to.

Let's give a listen.

I think we can look at and think about who is going to be impacted by what's in the House bill.

Let me give you one real clear example that somebody would not be excluded.

We know that individuals 55 to 64 are the least likely to be working and on Medicaid, but that doesn't mean they're not contributing.

You think about somebody who is caring for their grandchildren so that their adult child could work.

We know childcare is a challenge in this state.

That individual...

would no longer be eligible for Medicaid.

They would have to stop caring for their grandchild and go find a job so that they can maintain their Medicaid.

I think that that's specific.

That detail is really important in this conversation instead of broad sweeping generalizations that nobody will get hurt.

Exactly.

100%.

Bill Hanna, the state's Medicaid director, warning against broad sweeping generalizations.

Because again, when you do that,

And you have, as a state report said yesterday, roughly 63,000 Medicaid recipients in Wisconsin would fall under these new harsher requirements for work or for reporting.

Basically, it's all red tape.

It's more hoops to jump through under the guise of waste, fraud and abuse.

But that's 63,000 people in Wisconsin in varying degrees of health or caregiver status or disability or whatever the case.

that would either have to go out and find employment or would have to stop providing the care that they're providing or fill out even more paperwork online or by paper so often that they finally give up and they lose their benefits without Republicans actually saying that they're cutting the benefits.

What Robin Voss and the others are saying to those 63,000 people on Medicaid in Wisconsin?

is you are all a bunch of lazy couch surfers, and that you should get off your butt, put down the box of bonbons, turn off the soap opera, and go out and get a job you lazy hippie.

That is the message from Robin Voss, and he can say, oh, this is hyperbole, and this is, he can say something's a lie all day long, except that he hasn't told you the truth about something.

He hasn't shown you

if you can actually cut Medicaid $600 million based on waste, fraud, and abuse.

I would like to see that.

Again, just show that to us.

Don't give us one or two examples, because in any example of anything, you'll find somebody who is, you know, wasting or squandering the benefits that are out there.

That is not an example give us the example that amounts to again, you know that much money being cut because if you can't then you're kind of giving away the game here and letting us know that you can't actually show waste fraud and abuse but if I show you somebody who looks lazy if I show you somebody who looks scary and I tell you just to multiply that by tens of millions

Maybe you'll be fooled into thinking that we're actually cutting waste fraud and abuse.

They're not.

They're cutting you.

You are the waste that they need to cut to help their friends.

Still ahead, we'll be talking to Dan Schaefer, political editor from Civic Media, about the upcoming State Democratic Convention.

We will visit with Chad Holmes from 98.9 WXCO in Wausau, and we'll give you another chance at hearing our keyword this hour in the Civic Media Scotty Summer Text-to-Win Contest.

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Among the stories Parker is about National Dairy Month.

And of course, we we make a lot of cheese here.

And not not every flavor cheese is for every taste that's out there.

But there are some folks who love their cheese, shall we say, pungent.

Downright

stinky, if you will.

And that would include, perhaps the stinkiest of all, Limburger.

You ever try it?

Limburger.

I don't even know if I've heard of that.

You've never heard of Limburger?

I don't think so.

It is...

According to Merriam-Webster's dictionary here, surface ripened aged and famously malodorous, as in smelling very unpleasant.

It was traditionally in Northern Europe layered between slices of dark bread with raw onions and horseradish or mustard and washed down with good local beer.

And more than one person has quoted that Limburger, you know, at first, at first sniff really is kind of the stinky feet.

Yeah, sensation.

I'm reading foot odor is what I'm finding here.

Yeah.

That's not a great and yet there are people who swear by it.

And so Food Network, as they list all of the iconic eats and drinks from across America's Dairyland, does a little focus on Limburger as well.

America's lone remaining Limburger Cheese Factory is a chalet cheese co-op, and they still make and distribute more than a million pounds of Limburger annually.

And they're all located in the town square in Little Monroe.

And I can't be too

critical.

I mean, I wouldn't try it.

But I also know that we have come a long way from, you know, just processed, you know, American cheese, you know, there's, there's cheddar.

I've now learned to appreciate an aged cheddar.

I've really learned to appreciate an aged Gouda.

I used to never want blue cheese, you know, put blue cheese on a hamburger on a salad or whatever.

I'm like, that's mold.

Why would I put mold on there?

And then of course, I tried it.

And I liked it.

I love blue cheese on everything.

So there, Limburger.

That's the thing for y'all to try next is, is challenge your cheese taste buds for something new and see if you can go up, up the scale a notch, maybe not all the way to Limburger, Limburger, but ease yourself in so.

Yeah.

So again, that story is in our daily newsletter at UpNorthNewsWI.com.

Tony says, Oh, I love Gouda.

Yes.

And about the Limburger, he says, sounds fancy and terrible.

Yeah.

Matter of opinion there.

We also have a Sunday newsletter that I put together.

It's called, not all that creatively, Sunday mornings with Pat Krightlump.

And on those Sunday mornings, you can get some of the best of what we covered for the week in news, but we also have a question of the week.

and it actually came from something that we were discussing on air here with Chad Holmes and Chad will be along in our next hour to talk to us about stories he's covering in the Wausau area where there is discussion on whether it is time to move from a mayoral form of city leadership to a city manager and other communities have tried that or maybe have gone back and forth to a city manager.

And at the county level, there have been professionals who have been appointed as county administrators as opposed to an elected county executive.

So that's our question of the week is, you know, for your city and county, would you want somebody elected, somebody local, or do you want to get above the politics and have a professional who's appointed?

So mayor or city manager.

county executive or county administrator that's in our weekend Sunday morning newsletter and of course you can answer it by email as well just send us an email radio at upnorthnewswi.com again radio at upnorthnewswi.com and share your thoughts on that.

Coming up on the Civic Media radio network later today Dan Schaefer is pinch hitting for Maggie Dawn.

Now Dan will also be with us during the next hour

But before he hosts and fills in for Maggie Dawn this afternoon, he's going to publish his latest column for civic media and the re-combobulation area.

And a lot of it is about the chatter coming up for the State Democratic Convention, and he's going to give his take on some of...

how those conversations should be going.

And then he'll talk all about it when he fills in for Maggie Dawn with his guest cohost, Angela Lang from Block.

So quite the dynamic duo that you can catch this afternoon from four to six, right after Todd Alba's show from two to four across the Civic Media Radio Network.

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She's running for Congress in Arizona's seventh congressional district.

And so our Arizona outlet, the Copper Courier, is going behind the scenes to document Deja Fox's insurgent campaign.

And so if you want one of those, you know, peek behind the curtains, what's the, Parker, what's the sports version on ESPN?

Is it where they go behind with a football team all season long?

Hard knocks.

I think I don't think there's a question mark on there, but yeah, I okay Stump the producer always always a great game to play anyway, you get you get the same version but of a political campaign for this campaign in Arizona and again for that you can search for courier newsroom on YouTube and then scroll down the YouTube page to the videos for the new series called represent

along with all the other newsletters and great things that are there at couriernewsroom.com.

We talked earlier about how Robert Kennedy Jr.

has just fired the entire vaccine advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control.

What could go wrong, right?

As we know, the cuts that the Trump administration wants to make are even bigger than that.

And so here's the latest shoe to drop.

This one from a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel story saying that nine Wisconsin clinics could lose funding for HIV testing after the latest funding freeze and a flurry of grant related changes nationwide.

The article says the Trump budget proposal for 2026 looks to make cuts to HIV prevention

in clinics and community organizations.

The High Impact HIV Prevention and Surveillance Program for Health Departments covers HIV testing, prevention medication costs, and treatment for other sexually transmitted infections like syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia.

The Centers for Disease Control awarded $400 million to 59 health departments nationwide for this five-year grant.

and Wisconsin in the first year alone received just under $2 million.

The second year of that grant was due to start on June 1st, and while Milwaukee clinics are waiting on word about the future of their CDC funding, they're also trying to make plans for how to keep services available.