Chad Holmes
Award-Winning Friend to Farmers (2nd Hour)
Chippewa County farm management educator Jerry Clark is the 2024 recipient of the University of Wisconsin’s Distinguished Teaching Award. He’ll tell us about the vital work of helping farmers with crop rotation, markets, and new technologies that make Wisconsin agriculture a big player in global trade and family farm success.
Conservation Starts With Us with Jeff Nania (Hour 2)
It’s Wednesday, and we haven’t forgotten our regular guest, Pat Kreitlow of UpNorthNews Radio. He and Chad Holmes of The Chad Holmes Show on Bull Falls Radio WXCO talk about living up North, higher education, healthcare, the New Hampshire primary, and… Batman’s nipples? While in Wausau, Todd takes the opportunity to speak with Jeff Nania, […]
You Can’t ‘Both Sides’ January 6th (Hour 2)
We’ll talk to journalist Dan Shafer of The Recombobulation Area. We’ll cover the fall legislative session where Republicans are nixing all kinds of ideas related to improving the economy, but they did rush along a stadium bill for the Brewers—maybe too quickly. And we’ll question whether PolitiFact got it right when addressing criticism of Rep. […]
So Much to Do, So Little Help (Hour 2)
We review what should be an ambitious to-do list for the fall session of the Wisconsin Legislature with state Senate Democratic Leader Melissa Agard—though it still looks like the Republican leadership would rather do little to nothing at all.
LIVE from Wausau
Crute and Dom kick off their “Fall in Love Hometown” tour in Wausau, checking in with Chad Holmes for Wausau sports, and Wausau Mayor Katie Rosenberg for curling, birds, and the politics of Wausau.
Opportunity Out in the Country (Hour 2)
The Rural Democracy Initiative worked with a coalition of dozens of groups to lay out a roadmap of policies that could renew America’s rural communities and help the country with some of its big challenges. We’ll talk to two Wisconsin individuals from Main Street Alliance who played a part in the new 2023 Rural Policy […]
Too Big to Break Up? (Hour 2)
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul is among 31 attorneys general helping the US Dept. of Agriculture examine ways where companies are trying to remove competitive pressures from the marketplace in the agriculture and food industries. We’ll talk to Hans Breitenmoser about the things that aren’t blatant monopolies but still hurt capitalism and consumers. Also: Heather […]
Giving Veterans the Care They’ve Earned (Hour 2)
We’ll talk to veteran and former candidate Ben Murray about recent actions by the Biden administration to help veterans—and get his take on what else needs to be done at both the federal and state levels.
Against a Free Press, For More Child Labor (Hour 2)
We’ll visit with state Sen. Kelda Roys about two recent instances of Republicans getting attention for the wrong reasons. In one case, a Republican senator up north appears to be trying to sue a small news outlet out of business. That same senator and two Assembly colleagues are also co-authors of a new bill that […]
That Big Ol’ 6-Pack Will Be Old Style Again
It’s been more than 20 years since the sad news that La Crosse’s old G. Heileman Brewing Co. would go bankrupt and Old Style beer would go away. The label was eventually bought by Pabst and brewed in Milwaukee, but now Pabst is bringing Old Style back home—and the brewery’s iconic “6-Pack” of storage tanks […]
