Mornings with Pat Kreitlow

The party’s over. We wrap things up with a preview from Mike Clemens of Saturday’s Packers-Bears matchup.

Guest: Mike Clemens

We’ll have one more go-round with our Week In Review panel and ask them “what have we learned” in 2025 — and how can we take those lessons and apply them toward getting our country back on track in 2…

Guests: Jennifer Schulze, Jim Santelle, Mark Jacob

They say the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice… but that doesn’t mean there won’t be some injustices along the way. Donald Trump’s police state wins a round by securing a…

Guests: Greg Bach, Jennifer Schulze, Jim Santelle, Luke Mathers, Mark Jacob, Mike Clemens, Parker Olsen

It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy for those who want government to fail: Slash what’s working, blame government itself for being dysfunctional, rinse, repeat. We’ll talk to Joe Zepecki about the latest…

Guests: Chad Holmes, Joe Zepecki

A new report by a nonpartisan research group needed more than 2,300 words to describe why this month’s property tax bills for 2025 are so much higher than last year. They really only needed a handful…

Guest: Sean O’Malley

In Congress, a discharge petition is an extremely rare tool. A majority of members can sign it to force a full vote on a matter, even if the leadership wants to keep it bottled up. For the fourth tim…

Guests: Cherita Booker, Parker Olsen, Sean O’Malley

One of our favorite long-running stories on this show got the nickname “Pigeon Quest” because Melissa Kaye, from our Civic Media station in Wisconsin Rapids, embarked on a detailed mission to adopt a…

Guests: Earl Ingram, Melissa Baldauff, Melissa Kaye

We mark the final installment of Homeroom, our weekly segment about protecting public education in Wisconsin, with the two people most responsible for making it a prime focus of our show: Heather DuB…

Guests: Chris Hambuch-Boyle, Ellie Bourdo / Up North News, Heather DuBois Bourenane

There have been more unusual events in 2025 than we care to count — and one of the stranger ones took place Tuesday when Vanity Fair published the result of 11 (yes, eleven) interviews conducted with…

Guests: Jimmy Kaska, Melissa Baldauff

There is no bottom: Donald Trump will always find a way to sink even lower than the last time you thought he’d couldn’t be worse. This time, Trump is getting a fair amount of criticism from fellow Re…

Guests: Cam Stevenson, Dan Shafer

There are lots of holiday gifts you can wrap, but others you need to experience. We’ll talk to Sheila Everhart of the Wisconsin Agricultural Tourism Association about giving the gift of events in rur…

Guests: Hans Breitenmoser, Sheila Everhart

As we often say here: Those who hate government the most should be trusted the least to run it competently. The latest example comes from Republicans in the Legislature who refused a request to alloc…

Guests: Cam Stevenson, Dan Hagen, Dan Shafer, Emily Mills, Hans Breitenmoser, James Kelly, Parker Olsen, Sheila Everhart

The CEO of WisconsinEye talks to us about the network going dark — unable to continue its work of covering state government due to a lack of funding. We’ll ask why such a vital service has to beg for…

Guest: Jon Henkes

Former GOP Congressman Reid Ribble joins us to talk about the lack of a serious Republican healthcare plan — something he says shouldn’t be the case. We’ll hear his suggestions to his old colleagues.

Guests: Reid Ribble, Salina Heller

CBS could have used their time Saturday to honor Dick Van Dyke on his 100th birthday, given his many shows over many years. Instead, the new right wing regime chose to turn the airwaves over to the w…

Guest: Kristin Lyerly

A lot of Wisconsin political insiders sure like asking questions about Mandela Barnes: Can he win a general election? Can he raise $50 million to run for governor? Is the attention he’s getting from…

Guests: Mandela Barnes, Mike Clemens

We’ll ask our Week In Review panel about some of the headlines of the past few days. Republicans had to back off their desire to force grieving women to scoop up the remains of a miscarriage and put…

Guests: Jim Santelle, Joan Esposito, Kristin Lyerly

Some of us are old enough to remember when the United States Senate had a vaunted reputation as the world’s greatest deliberative body. Weighty issues would be debated by senators with the security o…

Guests: Jim Santelle, Joan Esposito, Keya Vakil, Parker Olsen, Ruth Conniff

With Joel Brennan joining the race for governor, we’ll ask political strategist Joe Zepecki if there’s anyone else in the pipeline or are we seeing the likely field of candidates between now and the…

Guests: Chad Holmes, Joe Zepecki

Joel Brennan, a former top official in Gov. Tony Evers’ administration, joins us live — after making it official that he’s joining a crowded field of Democrats hoping to succeed Evers. Brennan said h…

Guests: Joel Brennan, Sean O’Malley

There is a major typographical error on every Wisconsin property tax bill that people are seeing this week. The numbers are correct — they are higher, but the people responsible for the higher proper…

Guests: Cherita Booker, Joe Zepecki, Joel Brennan

When it comes to expensive political campaigns, Wisconsin shatters more records than a jukebox pushed down the stairs. Candidates have to raise big bucks — Mandela Barnes told our Earl Ingram he plan…

Guests: Earl Ingram, Melissa Baldauff

For all of the partisan disagreements about the state budget, there was one area (one!) that seemed to have bipartisan agreement: raising the level of state reimbursement to local school districts to…

Guests: Angelina Cruz, Ellie Bourdo / Up North News

It’s back to the future for Wisconsin license plates. We’ll talk about the unveiling of two new designs for Wisconsin vehicles. Well, not exactly new. Our state has seen both yellow plates with black…

Guests: Earl Ingram, Jimmy Kaska, Melissa Baldauff