We’ll begin a weekly series of check-ins with Dan Shafer, Civic Media political editor and founder of the online news site The Recombobulation Area. He’ll tell us about the big political stories he expects to follow each week—and we suspect he’ll also express a high level of angst about his beloved Milwaukee Bucks. Plus, he’s […]

Guest: Dan Shafer

Apr 29, 2025

44:02

Democrats (and progressive Americans who prefer not to wear a party label) are still celebrating this month’s state Supreme Court victory, but no one out there is assuming some kind of permanent corner has been turned. Feelings are still raw about Donald Trump’s Wisconsin victory, so what do Democrats need to do to have more […]

Guest: Eric Genrich

Apr 29, 2025

Welcome to the 100th day of the Trump administration, a milestone opportunity to outline the many, many, many, many, many ways it turned out to be a not-very-good idea to elect a convicted criminal with a chip on his shoulder, who’s willing to take out his frustrations on every non-billionaire American. On the bright side: […]

Guests: Cherita Booker, Christina Lorey, Dan Hagen

Apr 29, 2025

44:02

A recession appears increasingly likely with a president operating an economic policy that resembles a bull in a china shop more than a coherent strategy. We’ll talk to Sean O’Malley about ways to protect your retirement nestegg from the worst of a potential Trump Slump. And state Sen. Kelda Roys tells us about a bill […]

Guests: Kelda Roys, Sean O’Malley

Apr 28, 2025

44:02

There’s a mistaken impression that our national forests are supposed to be in some kind of primeval condition. That’s not what anybody wants, and health forestry practices have been standard in Wisconsin for a long time. But with a president abusing an emergency declaration to sidestep environmental safeguards, it’s easy to see why a former […]

Guests: Joe Hovel, Mike Dombeck, Salina Heller

Apr 28, 2025

14:38

We’ll have an update on Friday’s politically motivated arrest of a Milwaukee County judge and, as Paul Harvey would say, the rest of the story that President Trump’s FBI doesn’t want you to know. We’ll also talk to Kristin Lyerly about the experience of having the NFL Draft in her backyard. Mornings with Pat Kreitlow […]

Guest: Dr. Kristin Lyerly

Apr 28, 2025

14:38

We’ll visit live with Devin Remiker, the executive director of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, who’s in the race to become the next DPW state chair. And we’ll talk to Dr. Kristin Lyerly—not only about what things were like inside the NFL Draft festivities, but about how the Trump administration is trying to come up […]

Guests: Devin Remiker, Dr. Kristin Lyerly

Apr 25, 2025

44:02

Hillary Clinton got it right in 2016 when she tried to warn Americans that Donald Trump would be a “Putin puppet” if elected. But perhaps the president has earned an even stronger title: Quisling. We’ll talk to our Week In Review panel about that and more. Plus an update on sentencing for a man in […]

Guests: Dan Schumacher, Jennifer Schulze, Jim Santelle, Mark Jacob

Apr 25, 2025

14:38

It’s a case of MAGA vs. IRL. It’s one thing to be boisterous about a candidate during a campaign, but President Trump is finding public support diminishing when they’re watching his failings IRL, “in real life.” We’ll also talk about Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s embarrassment as government lawyers risk their careers by “mistakenly” filing paperwork […]

Guest: Keya Vakil

Apr 25, 2025

14:38