Joe Zepecki
This Is How To Do It (Hour 1)
President Joe Biden, Gov. Tony Evers, and Microsoft marked a milestone in Racine County on Wednesday, celebrating success where Foxconn, Donald Trump, and Scott Walker failed to launch. What made it work this time? We’ll go over the reasons with Joe Zepecki.
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Pat Goes to Therapy (Hour 1)
Former President Donald Trump brought his doom and gloom tour to Waukesha on Wednesday. Fortunately, Joe Zepecki is able to offer us some perspective on Trump’s dark rhetoric and lack of popular momentum.
UpNorthNews with Pat Kreitlow airs on several stations across the Civic Media radio network, Monday through Friday from 6-8 am. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! To learn more about the show and all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows to see the entire broadcast line up. Follow the show on Facebook, X, and Instagram to keep up with Pat & the show!
Rooting for Wisconsin to Fail? (Hour 1)
Republican legislators blocked millions for the UW System until they could blackmail diversity programs. Now they’re blocking millions to clean up contaminated drinking water. They’re blocking millions of dollars to address a healthcare crisis in the Chippewa Valley. And now they’re blocking $36 million in opioid settlement money from being used for proven treatment and counseling programs. It leads to valid curiosity of whether some of our legislators are simply rooting for Wisconsin to fail.
UpNorthNews with Pat Kreitlow airs on several stations across the Civic Media radio network, Monday through Friday from 6-8 am. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! To learn more about the show and all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows to see the entire broadcast line up. Follow the show on Facebook, X, and Instagram to keep up with Pat & the show!
Back to Basics on Medicaid (Hour 1)
Wisconsin is one of only 10 states where Republicans still refuse to extend affordable healthcare coverage to families by using extra federal Medicaid dollars—and will soon be one of only two states not to allow new moms to be covered for health problems for up to a year instead of 60 days. We’ll ask Joe Zepecki to put on his “Protect Our Care” hat to explain what Medicaid is and isn’t.
Love That Dirty Water (Hour 1)
There’s a new federal standard for PFAS in drinking water, stronger than what’s already on the books in Wisconsin—making it even more imperative that the money approved by the Legislature gets put to work on cleanup. And yet Republicans continue to sit on $125 million until industry is given more protection.
Trouble for Trump (Hour 1)
We’ll talk to Democratic strategist Joe Zepecki about Tuesday’s election results, including a number not getting the attention it should: the high number of Republican voters who refused to cast a ballot for former President Trump.
An Unserious Candidate (Hour 1)
Our weekly visit with Democratic strategist Joe Zepecki includes the question of whether Eric Hovde is a serious candidate for US Senate based on his approach to some current challenges—and some of the unusual things he had to say last time he ran for Senate in 2012.
Nobody’s Senator But Russia’s (Hour 1)
The congressional attempt to impeach President Joe Biden blew up in Republicans’ faces Wednesday when a former associate to Rudy Giuliani testified about how the Trump campaign and others—including Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson—were willing purveyors of disinformation that frequently originated with Russian efforts to manipulate American voters.
This Is Really Weird… (Hour 1)
Welcome to Monday! The show is absolutely packed and we kick things off with Donald Trump's event this past weekend where he said some...well some very disturbing things. We then welcome Political Consultant Joe Zepecki to talk about the Project 2025 movement and how scary and weird it actually is for this country.
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Rude, Crude, Bad Attitude (1st Hour)
This week’s final session in the Wisconsin Legislature was even worse than first thought. We’ll talk to Joe Zepecki about the pettiness and pointlessness of some of what they did—and the little trick Republicans pulled before starting a nine-month paid vacation.
