Salina Heller
Are You On The Naughty List? (Hour 2)
We’re bringing back author Laura Bird to share more recommendations on books as holiday gifts for kids and adults. And reporter Salina Heller asks kids how they know if they’re on Santa’s naughty list or the nice one. Here are the books recommendations mentioned on today’s show: UpNorthNews with Pat Kreitlow airs on several stations […]
The Future of Progressive Campaigns (Hour 2)
Behind every candidate is a campaign manager running countless details behind the scenes. In many progressive campaigns, that manager is someone very young with no employment security after election day. We ask our guest Michael Horecki if there’s a better way to train, maintain, and retain the best campaign organizers, based on his own cross-country […]
Mayor Pete and Midwestern Values (Hour 2)
Before he ever ran for president or took a job in DC, Pete Buttigieg was mayor of a small Indiana city, so he knows a thing or two about Midwestern values and what makes our economy tick. We talk to him about the economic resurgence that could come crashing down on Election Day. Also: Folks […]
Same Suppression, Different Tactic (Hour 2)
College students are getting texted with false information designed to intimidate them into not voting. We’ll sort out fact from the criminally fictitious, as we cover the stories making news as we start the final full week of the 2024 campaign. And a new Monday regular joins us—a radio rookie (!) by the name of […]
Still Lying About Women (Hour 2)
Eric Hovde did it in Friday night’s debate. Donald Trump keeps doing it on the campaign trail along with many other Republicans. They can’t stop lying about abortion rights and the conditions that actually occur during pregnancy that require a full slate of care options not dictated by political ideology or whims. We’re joined by […]
Enemies Foreign and Domestic (Hour 2)
Veterans for Responsible Leadership is a group dedicated to amplifying the message coming from the many people who’ve worked with Donald Trump: He is unfit to serve as Commander in Chief once again. We’ll talk to a national leader in the group and a member organizing a billboard campaign in rural locations, starting with Wisconsin. […]
The Dangerous World of They/Them (Hour 2)
UpNorthNews reporter Salina Heller has a story about the important role to be played next month by college students. Once seen as an apathetic block barely worth candidates’ attention, today’s generation of students can be true difference-makers—they know it and are politically active in a way that hasn’t been seen in a couple of generations. […]
Voting With a Purposes (Hour 2)
While Trump & Co. try to motivate people to vote by using fear and lies, it still seems like most voters will make up their minds using the real world in front of them—politicians who want to control their bodies but have no plans to improve the lives of children, families, and the economy. We’ll […]
Senators and Surrogates (Hour 2)
Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) talks to us about what he’s hearing while campaigning in Wisconsin on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris and Sen. Tammy Baldwin. And Salina Heller tells us how rural school districts are using a new approach to help themselves and their communities with the worsening shortage of affordable childcare options. […]
How Not to Defuse a Tense Situation (Hour 1)
We offer some free advice on the topic of leadership—especially when it comes to being an elected official asked to help resolve a conflict between two groups of constituents: Don’t compare one side to terrorists. We’ll give the background on why state Sen. Mary Felzkowski has now been banished from Lac du Flambeau tribal lands, […]
