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Mornings with Pat Kreitlow

Pat Kreitlow is a longtime Wisconsin journalist and former state legislator who lives in and produces his show from along Lake Wissota in Chippewa Falls. UpNorthNews is Northern Wisconsin"s home for informative stories and fact-based conversations. Broadcasts live 6 - 9 a.m. across the state! Listen Live: 6:00 am - 9:00 am Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

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Making Political Mischief Costly (Hour 1)

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2025/08/06

What Ed Prehn, Scott Walker, and legislative Republicans did to sabotage the Wisconsin Natural Resources Board a couple of years ago wasn’t “politics as usual,” it was conduct that should disqualify people from ever being entrusted by voters with elected or appointed offices. We have an update on a lawsuit over text messages that led some of Walker’s appointees to stay in place after their terms had expired simply to obstruct appointments from Gov. Tony Evers. Mornings with Pat Kreitlow is

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Another Birthday, Another Death Watch (Hour 3)

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2025/08/05

Last month, America marked 60 years of Medicare and Medicaid as a lifeline for the elderly and vulnerable. Not long after that, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to ensure racial discrimination would find no place in America’s elections. But it’s back, thanks to a politicized US Supreme Court and an all-out assault by a sitting president on anything resembling racial justice. Civic Media news director Chali Pittman tells us how recent events play a role in Wisconsin

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Superior Connectivity (Hour 2)

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2025/08/05

It has taken a while due to restrictions from a Republican-led Legislature, but progress is being made in Wisconsin communities that want to create a local network to ensure access to high-speed internet service. We’ll talk to Superior Mayor Jim Paine about the latest hometown to get a project started. We’ll also review the latest talk among progressive insiders over next year’s Democratic primary for governor and whether a robust primary will help or hurt the eventual nominee. Mornings with Pat

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Texas Corruption and Scott Walker (Hour 1)

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2025/08/05

The case of Texas legislators leaving the state in order to delay rigged Republican congressional maps evokes memories of what happened before Act 10 in Wisconsin in 2011. But the similarity goes deeper than that. States are in these positions of corrupt cartography because right wing justices on the US Supreme Court wouldn’t step in when Wisconsin Republicans rigged our own maps during former Gov. Scott Walker’s administration. Is there a path forward that doesn’t involve a race to the bottom when

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Main Street Hit by Trumponomics (Hour 3)

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2025/08/04

Small business owners are going public over the struggle to access health care, deal with rising tariffs, and meet the needs of their employees when it comes to childcare and more. We’ll catch up with Shawn Phetteplace from Main Street Alliance about their local meetings with small business owners across the country who look out for the employees who power their productivity. We’ll also check in with Civic Media friends Jane Matenaer at Radio Park and John & Gordy in Madison. Mornings with

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Crash Those Combines! (Hour 2)

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2025/08/04

It’s the goal of many non-profits and other organizations: create something so popular that it practically funds everything else you do. The folks at the Jackson County Fair figured that out a few years ago when they took the usual demolition derby, traded out cars, and crashed old farm combines! UpNorthNews reporter Salina Heller shares some insight from her hometown fair. We’ll also check in with Civic Media’s Jimmie Kaska. Mornings with Pat Kreitlow is powered by UpNorthNews, and it airs on

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Fireworks from Packers and Brewers (Hour 1)

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2025/08/04

Wisconsin two active sports teams put on two different types of fireworks displays over the weekend. For the Green Bay Packers, it was the literal kind—a show in the skies to wrap up another successful Family Night practice. For the Brewers, the fireworks came from the bats—setting a record for the number of hits in a three-game series as they pounded the Nationals in Washington, and manager Pat Murphy getting attention for his in-game snack of… pocket pancakes?! Mornings with Pat Kreitlow is

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Weekly Best of Mornings with Pat Kreitlow for Aug 2

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2025/08/02

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Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez (Hour 3)

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2025/08/01

We’re talking live with Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez, the first announced candidate in next year’s race for Wisconsin governor. She’ll talk about her background as a nurse and healthcare leader, what prompted her to run for a seat in the Legislature before becoming the state’s second highest executive, and what she wants to do if elected to succeed Tony Evers in November 2026. Dr. Kristin Lyerly joins the discussion. And Mike Clemens gives us an update on Packers training camp and previews the Brewers’

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Trade War via Whack-a-Mole (Hour 2)

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2025/08/01

Brittney Merlot warns of incredibly poor air quality. We’ll review the top stories of the past few days with our Week In Review panel—including this morning’s newly announced tariffs from President Trump that make little sense and will only increase prices further for American consumers. Plus: A discussion about the national news outlets that are worth the subscription price and the ones that have put their credibility in the journalistic dumpster.Mornings with Pat Kreitlow is powered by

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Corrupt Cartography (Hour 1)

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2025/08/01

Imagine living in a country where the leadership is so corrupt it can demand that lawmakers in one of its areas redraw the maps as a way to stay in power, no matter what the voters might think. The country is right here and the area is Texas—with legislators coming into special session to redraw maps mid-decade just because Donald Trump told them to rig the lines to add five more Republicans in Congress. We’ll talk to Courier Newsroom’s national political editor Keya Vakil and Matt Hennie, senior

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The Anemic Economic Enigma (Hour 3)

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2025/07/31

Wall Street finance and compliance expert Sean O’Malley gives us his Wisconsin common sense take on the latest economic news—raw numbers that suggest things aren’t as bad as people feared they might be, but there’s no clear path out of the current sluggishness. And it goes without saying, the sluggishness wasn’t inevitable, since we were enjoying a resurging economy when it was under adult supervision. We’ll also visit with Chad Holmes from our station in Wausau and Joe Zepecki will have an update

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We Make. They Take. (Hour 2)

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2025/07/31

For people who follow the news regularly, there’s no surprise in what billboards are saying about the Trump megabill. But there are still plenty of people in Wisconsin and elsewhere who aren’t aware that the massive cuts in vital programs aren’t saving them a dime—it’s all going to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and others in the highest tax brackets. We’ll talk to the head of a national group putting up billboards featuring America’s most prominent rich guys and sharing a simple message: We

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Racism Is Rarely on Pause (Hour 1)

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2025/07/31

Well, that didn’t take long. The 2026 race for Wisconsin governor already has its first smear campaign—and it was as predictable as it is tiring. Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez met her husband at a salsa dancing class and they’ve been married nearly 20 years. He’s an IT network engineer, a naturalized citizen, and they’re raising two teenagers. Naturally, the first whisper campaigns of his immigration status are underway, and Rodriguez put into perspective perfectly for voters. We’ll also look ahead to

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Climate in the Courts (Hour 3)

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2025/07/30

Is Big Oil about to go the way of Big Tobacco and face an overdue courtroom reckoning for its role in putting our climate and human health in danger? If so, there’s no shortage of courtrooms where that might happen. Former US Attorney Jim Santelle joins Melissa Baldauff in this week’s Climate Check to discuss a World Court ruling as well as landmark lawsuits making progress recently in Hawaii, New York, and Italy. Also: Civic Media reporter James Kelly has an update on stories across northwest

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A Kid Leaves a School. The Lights Still Have to Go...

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2025/07/30

We’ll talk to a guest from Chippewa Falls, the school district business manager, about the problems being faced in communities with declining school enrollment. Whether because of demographics or (increasingly) the threat from taxpayer-funded private school vouchers, each kid who leaves means state aid goes down a little. But expenses don’t. The lights still go on and the school bus gets fueled whether there are 20 kids or 19. Is the current system sustainable? Also: We’ll get some western Wisconsin

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Happy 60th. We’re Here to Kill You. (Hour 1)

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2025/07/30

Today Medicare and Medicaid turn 60 years old. It should be a cause for celebration, for the untold number of lives made better through healthcare security for the retired, the disabled, and other at-risk populations. Instead, those recipients are being called lazy, told to “get off the couch,” and being lumped in with a miniscule number of cheats as an excuse for conservatives to reach their long-sought goal of removing the safety net and letting Americans return to an era of old age poverty and

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Democratic Dominoes (Hour 3)

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2025/07/29

Now that Gov. Evers has made his retirement official, we’ll ask Dan Shafer from The Recombobulation Area and the way Democratic dominoes could start to line up—with incumbents considering a run for new seats, which opens up other seats for newcomers. We’ll also get an update on Wausau headlines with Chad Holmes from 98.9 WXCO Radio.Mornings with Pat Kreitlow is powered by UpNorthNews, and it airs on several stations across the Civic Media radio network, Monday through Friday from 6-9 am

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Farming More Than Food (Hour 2)

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2025/07/29

Lincoln County dairy farmer Hans Breitenmoser and Sheila Everhart of the Wisconsin Agricultural Tourism Association will fill us in on upcoming fairs, festivals, and farm shows—and they’ll take on the more serious issues of how laws need to be changed to assist farmers who want to diversify their businesses to welcome more visitors and events. Check this link to read a letter of support for overhauling farm private event laws. You can sign a petition here to support "farm stay" camping. We’ll

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Falling Up (Hour 1)

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2025/07/29

Once upon a time, it was rare for someone to run for a higher office with no experience serving in some other capacity. Chief executive is a heck of a place for on-the-job training, whether it’s at a factory or running a state — or a country, right? In a two-and-a-half minute interview segment, a candidate for Wisconsin governor showed his inexperience in talking about President Trump, reproductive rights, and tariffs. Was he really advocating for tariffs at the state level? Mornings with Pat

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