Mornings with Pat Kreitlow

Tuesday of Thanksgiving week sure seems like an odd place on the calendar to announce the big, beautiful health care plan that’s been promised for many years, but maybe the president is serious this time. Or maybe he’s only thinking out loud about potentially reversing himself and backing an extension of tax credits that keep […]

Tue Nov 25, 2025

43:55

Author Laura Bird is back with her monthly batch of book recommendations, this time with an eye on books that match the sentiment of the season: thankfulness. She tells us about eight books: “Maggie; or a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar” by Katie Yee, “A Marriage at Sea” by Sophie Elmhurst, “Everything […]

Guest: Laura Bird

Mon Nov 24, 2025

43:57

UpNorthNews reporter Salina Heller talked to the father of a Wisconsin-based member of the cast of “Wicked: For Good” about bringing her talents to Hollywood along with her wheelchair. And we’ll find out what the group Fair Wisconsin has been doing to continue the fight for fairness for the LGBTQ community. Mornings with Pat Kreitlow […]

Guests: Abigail Swetz, Salina Heller

Mon Nov 24, 2025

43:53

We’ll review the Green Bay Packers’ dominating win against the Minnesota Vikings as they head toward a Thanksgiving Day matchup with the Detroit Lions. And we’ll review the weekend’s news headlines that include the death of DOGE, a small payday for Marjorie Taylor Greene for quitting Congress, and what press reports call a “Trump peace […]

Guest: Dr. Kristin Lyerly

Mon Nov 24, 2025

43:57

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