Mornings with Pat Kreitlow

Small business owners are going public over the struggle to access health care, deal with rising tariffs, and meet the needs of their employees when it comes to childcare and more. We’ll catch up with Shawn Phetteplace from Main Street Alliance about their local meetings with small business owners across the country who look out […]

Guest: Shawn Phetteplace

Mon Aug 4, 2025

44:02

It’s the goal of many non-profits and other organizations: create something so popular that it practically funds everything else you do. The folks at the Jackson County Fair figured that out a few years ago when they took the usual demolition derby, traded out cars, and crashed old farm combines! UpNorthNews reporter Salina Heller shares […]

Guest: Salina Heller

Mon Aug 4, 2025

44:02

Wisconsin two active sports teams put on two different types of fireworks displays over the weekend. For the Green Bay Packers, it was the literal kind—a show in the skies to wrap up another successful Family Night practice. For the Brewers, the fireworks came from the bats—setting a record for the number of hits in […]

Guest: Dr. Kristin Lyerly

Mon Aug 4, 2025

44:02

We’re talking live with Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez, the first announced candidate in next year’s race for Wisconsin governor. She’ll talk about her background as a nurse and healthcare leader, what prompted her to run for a seat in the Legislature before becoming the state’s second highest executive, and what she wants to do if […]

Guests: Dr. Kristin Lyerly, Mike Clemens, Sara Rodriguez

Fri Aug 1, 2025

44:02

Brittney Merlot warns of incredibly poor air quality. We’ll review the top stories of the past few days with our Week In Review panel—including this morning’s newly announced tariffs from President Trump that make little sense and will only increase prices further for American consumers. Plus: A discussion about the national news outlets that are […]

Guests: Jennifer Schulze, Jim Santelle, Mark Jacob

Fri Aug 1, 2025

44:02

Imagine living in a country where the leadership is so corrupt it can demand that lawmakers in one of its areas redraw the maps as a way to stay in power, no matter what the voters might think. The country is right here and the area is Texas—with legislators coming into special session to redraw […]

Guests: Keya Vakil, Matt Hennie

Fri Aug 1, 2025

44:02

Wall Street finance and compliance expert Sean O’Malley gives us his Wisconsin common sense take on the latest economic news—raw numbers that suggest things aren’t as bad as people feared they might be, but there’s no clear path out of the current sluggishness. And it goes without saying, the sluggishness wasn’t inevitable, since we were […]

Guests: Joe Zepecki, Sean O’Malley

Thu Jul 31, 2025

44:02

For people who follow the news regularly, there’s no surprise in what billboards are saying about the Trump megabill. But there are still plenty of people in Wisconsin and elsewhere who aren’t aware that the massive cuts in vital programs aren’t saving them a dime—it’s all going to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and […]

Guest: Faiz Shakir

Thu Jul 31, 2025

44:02

Well, that didn’t take long. The 2026 race for Wisconsin governor already has its first smear campaign—and it was as predictable as it is tiring. Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez met her husband at a salsa dancing class and they’ve been married nearly 20 years. He’s an IT network engineer, a naturalized citizen, and they’re raising […]

Guest: Cherita Booker

Thu Jul 31, 2025

44:02