For Food Friday, a chef and cooking show host shares with us some of the flavors of Mexico. Then a UW-Eau Claire economists helps us make sense of new inflation numbers, set against the stock market, unemployment, and other factors to consider when judging the health of the economy.

We take a comprehensive look at how the national economy is doing, weighing inflation and cost of living data against the job market and stock gains. Then we discuss a variety of viewpoints on where the redistricting process will go, with Governor Tony Evers expected to veto new legislative maps.

With Governor Evers expected to veto new legislative maps the state legislature's just passed, we discuss a variety of viewpoints on where the process will go from here. And then for Food Friday, a chef and cooking show host shares with us some of the flavors of Mexico.

A health and medicine reporter walks us through a crucial court decision regarding drug company penalties in the opioid crisis. Then a video game designer and professor explains some of the problems he sees with how social media as we know it operates, and walks us through some of his ideas about how to improve things.

A video game designer and professor explains some of the problems he sees with how social media as we know it operates, and walks us through some of his ideas about how to improve things. Then we talk about some of the challenges that low-income Wisconsinites have accessing dental care with the leader of nonprofit healthcare clinic -- and what's being done to help them.

We talk about some of the challenges that low-income Wisconsinites have accessing dental care with the leader of nonprofit healthcare clinic -- and what's being done to help them. And then a health and medicine reporter walks us through a crucial court decision regarding drug company penalties in the opioid crisis.

Educational issues are attracting a lot of political attention and money lately. We talk about why classrooms became such a hot issue. We also hear the story of a Wisconsin soldier who turned to forestry to cope with PTSD. Plus, a biologist shares the excitement of discovering a rare moss in the northwoods.

Ahead of Veterans Day, we hear the story of a Wisconsin soldier who turned to the forest to cope with PTSD. We also hear from a researcher about the excitement of discovering a rare moss in the northwoods. We also look at what Congress is working on after passing a major infrastructure package last week.

Educational issues are attracting a lot of attention and money from political groups around the country. We talk about why the classroom is such a hot issue right now. We also look back at how Congress passed a major infrastructure bill and what lawmakers are working on next.

We hear from listeners about their reactions to the developing story of Aaron Rodgers' COVID-19 diagnosis and admission that he was never vaccinated to prevent catching the disease. Then a state lawmaker behind a new bill to save two Wisconsin paper mills talks about how it would work. And while emergency rooms across the country have been seeing fewer COVID-19 patients, our guest who leads an emergency medicine organization says patients who avoided going to the hospital earlier in the pandemic are now overwhelming emergency rooms.