Though 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. Then we get better acquainted with the actual contents and goals of a massive, and long-negotiated infrastructure bill that's just arrived at President Biden's desk for signing.

We get better acquainted with the actual contents and goals of a massive, and long-negotiated infrastructure bill that's just arrived at President Biden's desk for signing. Then 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. And a state lawmaker behind a new bill to save two Wisconsin paper mills talks about how it would work.

A vaccine law expert helps us understand how a new requirement from the Biden administration could look in practice. Then a neuroscientist explains why we find comfort in familiar odors, including holiday ones. And we learn about a national distinction for Milwaukee Recreation.

A neuroscientist explains why we find comfort in familiar odors, including holiday ones. Then we learn about a national distinction for Milwaukee Recreation. And we get an in-depth, insider look at the long and ultimately deteriorating history of the National Rifle Association from an investigative journalist who's spent years looking into it.

We get an in-depth, insider look at the long and ultimately deteriorating history of the National Rifle Association from an investigative journalist who's spent years looking into it. Then a vaccine law expert helps us understand how a new requirement from the Biden administration could look in practice.

Best-selling food writer Dorie Greenspan helps us usher in a new era of world peace, by way of cookies and cornbread. Then A WPR reporter and a UW-Madison law professor update us on the Kyle Rittenhouse homicide trial this week, and discuss the challenges of determining what a "reasonable" use of force is.

A WPR reporter and a UW-Madison law professor update us on the Kyle Rittenhouse homicide trial this week, and discuss the challenges of determining what a "reasonable" use of force is. Then an economics reporter shares more reporting on why so many people have left their jobs during the pandemic, and how our economy is being affected.

An economics reporter shares more reporting on why so many people have left their jobs during the pandemic, and how our economy is being affected. Then best-selling food writer Dorie Greenspan helps us usher in a new era of world peace, by way of cookies and cornbread.

We discuss vaccines for children, booster shots, and other COVID-19 updates with the current head of the state's Department of Health Services. And we talk with a director from the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention about why cigarette sales recently went up for the first time in two decades.

We talk with a director from the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention about why cigarette sales recently went up for the first time in two decades. Then the director of the Marquette University Law School Poll shares results of their latest polling, including Wisconsinites' views on Governor Tony Evers and Senator Ron Johnson.