There are concerns that the recent court ruling overturning Act 10 means that next year’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race will have an outsized focus on a law from 13 years ago. Political strategist Joe Zepecki says we may as well get into it, since one of the candidates for justice was part of the original […]

Guest: Joe Zepecki

Dec 5, 2024

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We’ll visit with Ron Martin, a social studies teacher in Eau Claire who also serves on the executive board of the National Education Association, to get his reaction to a judge overturning Act 10. Also: Nick Ouellette, superintendent of the Hudson school district and Megan Rozowski of the Hudson school board talk about the pressures […]

Guests: Megan Rozowski, Nick Ouellette, Ron Martin

Dec 4, 2024

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Congressional Republicans have a dilemma on their hands. President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is creating a new generation of jobs nationwide, without regard to who supported him. A lot of “red states” are seeing big benefits. So when President-elect Trump talks about undoing Biden’s investments, these GOP lawmakers find themselves in a bit of a […]

Guest: Melissa Baldauff

Dec 4, 2024

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President Biden’s unconditional pardon of his son Hunter has united two groups of people who rarely come together: hypocritical conservatives who didn’t say “boo” about Trump pardoning a Who’s Who of political criminals—and easily-startled progressives who work too hard at trying not to be too supportive of the president who got more done than Democratic […]

Guest: Hans Breitenmoser

Dec 3, 2024

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Act 10, the 2011 Scott Walker law that stripped away rights from public workers, was always based on a sham premise: that state workers could be fairly divided into two groups, one that would be exempt from losing rights—coincidentally, the same group of unions that endorsed Scott Walker in 2010. The willful blindness of (coincidentally!) […]

Guests: Christina Lorey, Dan Hagen

Dec 3, 2024

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