Kate Duffy
Joe’s Gonna Be Okay. More So Than Trump. (Hour 2)
We’ll discuss President Joe Biden’s national address about his decision to pull out of the 2024 presidential race. Also: State Rep. Melissa Ratcliff is the focus of our Women Win Wisconsin segment as she talks about her run for a seat in the State Senate. UpNorthNews with Pat Kreitlow airs on several stations across the […]
Main Street’s Progressive Future (Hour 2)
Our Women Win Wisconsin segment powered by @MotherhoodForGood includes a conversation with State Senate candidate Kelly Peterson. We’ll meet Richard Trent, the new national director of the Main Street Alliance, a voice for small business owners. Plus Joe Zepecki on the GOP convention and Luke Mathers tells us about Civic Media coverage of this week’s […]
Fearless (Hour 2)
Our Women Win Wisconsin segment powered by Motherhood For Good includes a conversation with state Assembly Rep. Francesca Hong, a fearless progressive not known for mincing words about the importance of making sure to vote this August and November. UpNorthNews with Pat Kreitlow airs on several stations across the Civic Media radio network, Monday through […]
Chasing a Dream—and History (Hour 2)
A member of the Madison Common Council is running for a seat in the Legislature and a spot in the history books. Nasra Wehelie would become the first Muslim woman to serve as a Wisconsin legislator, though she would first have to unseat a fellow Democrat in the August primary. We’ll talk to her in […]
Bird Watching (2nd Hour)
To begin the hour, we get a forecast from Civic Media‘s Brittney Merlot looking ahead for the next couple days. Then Pat recaps Louisiana’s new law mandating that classrooms display the Ten Commandments and notes the Supreme Court case that was decided decades ago this week that rejected such requirements. Then, we catch up with […]
Get Out of the Echo Chamber (Hour 2)
Congressman Tom Tiffany gets schooled on live TV, proving how bad it is to spend too much time in the echo chamber of political things you want to hear, whether true or not. Also: Our Women Win Wisconsin segment powered by Motherhood for Good introduces us to someone running for Assembly in northeast Wisconsin. Her […]
3rd District Primary: Rebecca Cooke (Hour 2)
Rebecca Cooke concludes our three-day catch-up with candidates in the 3rd Congressional District Democratic primary. State Rep. Jodi Emerson (D-Eau Claire) is our guest in our Women Win Wisconsin segment, powered by our friends at Motherhood for Good. And Luke Mathers helps us review the final Wisconsin episode of Top Chef-Wisconsin before the finalists are […]
Get in a Candidate’s Head (Hour 2)
One of the fundamental tenets of democracy is the ability of ordinary folks to petition their government without fear of retribution—unless you signed a petition a dozen years ago to recall Scott Walker for stripping away workers’ rights. Ever since then, conservative politicians have put those petition signers in a database in order to seek […]
Women, Trump, and Trust (Hour 2)
In our Women Win Wisconsin segment powered by Motherhood for Good, we’re joined by Lt. Governor Sara Rodriguez and Assembly Democratic Leader Greta Neubauer for a discussion on former President Trump’s expressing openness to allowing restrictions on contraception access—before an abrupt about-face. Also: Author Nick Butler runs for an Assembly seat in the Chippewa Valley. […]
The Good Land Cooking Challenge (Hour 2)
We recap the latest episode of Top Chef-Wisconsin, which gets into the overlooked but increasingly revered culture of Indigenous cuisine. And Rep. Lee Snodgrass of the Fox Valley is featured in this week’s Women Win Wisconsin, powered by Motherhood for Good. UpNorthNews with Pat Kreitlow airs on several stations across the Civic Media radio network, […]
