Daybreak w/ Brian and Jamie

Spring break is upon us and travel prices surround us. We discuss how increasing gas prices have affected people’s daily commutes. As kids head off to spring break trips, the arts are in the headlines as funding for them waivers. We ask how important arts are to education.

Later we’re joined by Titus Seilheimer, fisheries outreach specialist at Wisconsin Sea Grant, to talk about the impact of invasive carp in the Great Lakes.

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We start off the day with some talk on Iran and whose information you can trust regarding peace talks. We cover other headlines including news that the Pentagon is making more moves against the press. Meanwhile the Supreme Court has declined to review a Texas law regarding freedom of the press, we discuss the law. Also, a woman has been awarded $19.2 million in her sexual battery case against Bill Crosby.

In this hour’s Wisconsin news, we head to Washington County where the county is being sued over the sale of a former UW campus to a Christian school. We talk about the suit and why it is being brought up.

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We take a look into how much money is being put into the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Also, the data center in Port Washington is in headlines again, this time because the construction was going 24/7 and the noise was so bad that residents complained enough to limit when construction can happen.

Airports have been in the news constantly, why? Because lines have been growing longer amid the DHS shutdown and now ICE is being sent to airports to aid the TSA.

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We discuss a plan to make student loans go to the Treasury Department, this comes as the Trump administration continues to dismantle the Education Department. We discuss who the plan seems to target. We ask where you get your news from as we tackle the shuttering of the CBS radio news service, which has been around for almost a century.

We also take a glance at a bill from Minnesota that would let senior homes serve alcohol without a license. We also have some fun in today’s edition of Swipe or Stay.

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We bring you headlines from over the weekend and focus on Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defending military action against Iran. Also in national news, election laws are hitting the Supreme Court in the form of mail in voting. We discuss the key players and what it could mean for the midterms.

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul is joining yet another lawsuit against the Trump administration, this time over greenhouse gas and clean energy standards. In other Wisconsin news, a bill to free up hospital beds has passed but there are worries coming from disability groups.

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Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu has announced that he is not seeking reelection, we discuss this and other key Republicans in the Wisconsin legislature that will not be returning to the chambers. After much ado, more than $1 billion in federal funding has been approved to replace the Blatnik Bridge, the Superior’s connection to Duluth, Minnesota. But, there are some concerns about its connection to donations to Sean Duffy’s son-in-law who is running for office.

Later we’re joined by president and CEO of NeighborWorks Green Bay Noel Halvorsen, he tells us about a bipartisan housing bill that would expand access to homeownership.

We close out the week with some good news stories from around the state in this week’s edition of Dairyland Diaries.

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Despite the overwhelming support for the Knowles-Nelson stewardship program, Wisconsin lawmakers have chosen inaction and the program appears to be at its end. We also discuss the expansion of a Madison Reading Project literacy program for kids.

We play a few games this hour! As always, we catch up on pop culture during Swipe or Stay and later we have a little spelling bee ahead of the Badger State Spelling Bee.

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We check out both local headlines and the latest in Iran, which launches us into our first topic: The Pentagon is seeking $200 billion to help support the war in Iran. Meanwhile, border official Tom Homan met with centrist Democratic senators to reopen the Department of Homeland Security; this meeting excluded Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer.

Back home with Wisconsin news, a bill that would limit what you can use FoodShare to buy is on its way to the governor’s desk. We ask if the government should be able to limit what they can get using FoodShare. Over in Washington County, there is movement to name a highway for the late Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA.

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Bill Lueders, president of Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council, joins us to explain the loophole that allows lawmakers to delete records that should be accessible via open records requests. We also talk to Sara Shaw, the deputy research director at Wisconsin Policy Forum, about a study on how Wisconsin is funding its childcare and what it could do.

Gambling has been a big topic lately, this time it comes up after a journalist was threatened by gamblers after he reported a bombing. We close the show on a light note as Brewer fans prepare to head down a stretch of I-94 that is riddled with construction.

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We’re joined by Nicole Schneider from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. She gives us details on a program that helps people get the food they need in order to help them with their health. Meanwhile, Wisconsin’s Senate has been busy, we dive into some of the several bills that are headed to Governor Evers’ desk, including a postpartum medicaid extension bill.

We glance at headlines, including news that DHS is creating a program to pay immigrants who will “self-deport.”  There is also word that Trump-aligned senators are planning a floor takeover to pass the SAVE America Act.

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