Mark Jacob
Nixon Was an Amateur (Hour 2)
We’re 50 years removed from Watergate, when Richard Nixon faced impeachment for trying to use the US Department of Justice to go after his political enemies. Now Donald Trump is weaponizing DoJ in ways that make Nixon look like an amateur. So we’ll ask our Week In Review panel if turnabout is fair play: Can we stop pretending that president’s cannot face criminal charges when they commit actual crimes? Also: Corrine Hendrickson has results of a statewide survey of childcare providers, showing the dire straits the industry is in—and could get worse if Republicans writing the next state budget leave them high and dry.
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!
Toxic Toughness (Hour 2)
We’re having to endure an age where too many politicians have set aside the notion of service and solutions, choosing instead to base their ambitions on being perceived as “tough.” It’s led to a national security team incapable of accountability after a botched group text and a Wisconsin Legislature considering a bill that threatens to stuff our prisons, even when rehabilitation is a proven alternative. We’ll discuss those stories and more with our week-in-review panel.
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!
The Crisis Is Looming? (Hour 2)
We hear a lot that a Constitutional crisis is looming, but with President Trump’s defiance of judges’ orders, aren’t we already there? We’ll talk to a former US Attorney as part of our week-in-review panel.
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!
Brittany Kinser (Hour 2)
We have a conversation with Brittany Kinser about her campaign for state Superintendent of Public Instruction. As an advocate of charter and voucher schools, we’ll ask how she intends to have three things at once: strong public schools, taxpayer-supported private schools, and taxpayers who don’t mind paying for two systems. Also: Our week-in-review panel looks at how President Trump shows no sign of letting up on the steamroller that’s been wearing down national media and Senate Democratic leadership.
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!
Trumps Ends Local Service Offices (Hour 2)
Step away for a moment from the big numbers about all the people President Trump is terminating. Look at the local level and you’ll see how your federal tax dollars help provide services through offices around the country. Trump and Elon Musk are closing more than a dozen such offices around our state. We’ll tell you what they do and how the guys who promised to make government more efficient are in the process of making much less efficient.
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!
Best and Worst Actors (Hour 2)
On this Oscar weekend, we’ll talk about our own nominees for the best and worst actors in today’s political theater. We’ll talk to two Chicago news veterans: print journalist Mark Jacob and broadcaster Joan Esposito, as well as former US Attorney Jim Santelle.
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!
No Guardrails (Hour 2)
This week’s confirmation of Kash Patel as FBI director puts the final nail in the coffin of anyone’s hopes that Senate Republicans would stand for integrity when faced with a slate of unqualified and dangerous Cabinet appointees. We’ll review this week’s political headlines with journalists Mark Jacob, Jennifer Schulze, and former US Attorney Jim Santelle. Also: A bittersweet conversation with Dan Schumacher of Northland College, where he and others learned this week that the small college in Ashland will shut down at the end of the academic year.
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!
It’s Work… But It Works (2nd Hour)
Pat begins the second hour with a weekend weather report from Civic Media meteorologist Brittney Merlot, covering the wild swings our state is facing this week. Then, Pat touches on what it would mean for a challenge to Act 10 before this Wisconsin Supreme Court, with two current Justices having ties to the case in different ways.
Our week-in-review panel looks at the whirlwind that accompanied the uncertainty of whether the new administration could actually get away with cutting a massive amount of government services for Americans. The bottom line: Dealing with this president is going to require work—work to fact-check, work to challenge, work to maintain a stable government… but as we learned, it works.
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!
Don’t ‘Both Sides’ a Nazi Salute (Hour 2)
January 24, 2025
If ever there were a topic in the news that cried out for not treating it with typical “both sides” coverage, couldn’t we agree making a Nazi salute is one of them? And yet that’s what media outlets are doing after a Milwaukee TV meteorologist rightly called out Elon Musk for a gesture that, at its best, was Nazi-adjacent. We’ll talk to Mark Jacob and Jennifer Schulze about this week’s media coverage of the news, as well as former US Attorney Jim Santelle, who will react to the warrantless raids being done on immigrant laborers—as well as President Trump’s order for US Attorneys to investigate local officials.
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!
A National Show of Defiance (Hour 2)
Happening Saturday all across the country, including in at least a half-dozen Wisconsin communities, the People’s March is a national show of defiance against those who want Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday to usher in an era that rolls back rights for workers, women, immigrants, the LGBTQ community, communities of color, and voters. We’ll talk to an organizer of the march in Eau Claire. And our Friday panel assesses the Trump transition and reminds us that on Monday’s Martin Luther King Day, we shouldn’t let conservatives continue to misuse MLK’s “content of their character” line.
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!
