The next session of the Wisconsin Legislature is still weeks away, but Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is already spreading misinformation in order to justify not using the state’s $4 billion surplus to fix chronic underfunding of public schools. We’ll have one of the state’s best experts in our Homeroom segment to tell us the tricks […]

Guests: Christopher Thiel, Heather DuBois Bourenane, Sandy Whisler

Nov 27, 2024

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We already know what a second Donald Trump term will be like for efforts to tackle a changing climate. Now we know more about the team he’s putting in place to slash federal support for clean energy, remove protections from sensitive lands and water, and pump more carbon into the air. We’ll have more in […]

Guest: Melissa Baldauff

Nov 27, 2024

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President-elect Donald Trump is eight weeks away from being sworn in, but he’s already having an impact on the economy with his new pledge to seek higher tariffs on some of our largest trading partners. Why are so few newsrooms explaining that, in plain English, what Trump actually said is that he’s pledging to seek […]

Guest: Jennifer Schulze

Nov 26, 2024

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America is learning that the wheels of justice can turn too slowly, now that a convicted felon charged with trying to overturn the last election was able to run out the clock and win the next one. We’ll have more about the legal cases against President-elect Trump being dropped. Also: UpNorthNews community editor Christina Lorey […]

Guests: Cherita Booker, Christina Lorey

Nov 26, 2024

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We’ll talk to former US Attorney Jim Santelle about President-elect Trump’s new choice to be Attorney General, now that Matt Gaetz has withdrawn his nomination. Pam Bondi, the former Florida attorney general, is no better—having torpedoed one investigation of Trump, Inc. fraud and becoming one of his superspreaders of the 2020 Big Lie. UpNorthNews with […]

Guests: Dan Schumacher, Jim Santelle, Mark Jacob

Nov 22, 2024

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