La Crosse Talk PM WIZM

Wisconsin Democracy Campaign executive director Matt Rothschild joined (24:00) to talk about the money floating around Wisconsin politics, as the governor's race has the most money in the U.S. Began the show, however, just breaking down election day, which included a quick elections update (20:45) La Crosse County Clerk Ginny Dankmeyer.

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County clerk Ginny Dankmeyer on La Crosse Talk PM at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday for a quick elections update. 

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La Crosse Mayor Mitch Reynolds in studio Monday covering a lot of ground. Spent the first part of the show talking about the homeless situation and, perhaps not related, the messaging around a person who died in the park last week. Discussed the La Crosse School District plan some more, and how that will affect the city. In relation to that — and homelessness — we hit on affordable housing in the city a couple different times. And, somewhere in there, we discussed the state's potential $6 billion budget surplus that's been lying around since January, while the Legislature has been out of session the past nine months. 

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UW-La Crosse political science professor, Anthony Chergosky, Ph.D. in studio, as the midterm election season winds down. Part of that discussion was polling on whether the Tuesday election day should be a holiday or a paid holiday. Also talked Bernie Sanders at UW-La Crosse and these figures who are phenomenons to political scientists. Democratic US House candidate Jeff Ettinger joined for a few, as he tries to win Minnesota's 1st Congressional District. Ended the show talking about how people hit deer drastically more right after we "fall back" with Daylight Saving Time ending.

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A year ago, the Senate accidentally passed permanent Daylight Savings — so we wouldn't change our clocks in November or ever again. It's sitting in the US House for passage. Congressman Ron Kind, who's retiring after 26 years, joined to talk about that, some of the things the House has done to combat inflation and why he thinks Brad Pfaff is right for his job. Before that, UW-L Outreach Specialist, Spencer Wilken and Rochester Mayo HS physics teacher Matt Drucker joined to recap the Bill Nye presentation that happened this week at Winona State.

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La Crosse Homeless Services coordinator, Brian Sampson, joined the show, as the city's campground designation at Houska Park came to an end this week, but the move out of that has yet to begin. Before that, however, US House Rep., Republican Brad Finstad hopes to continue in office, after a special election this summer. He's running against Democrat Jeff Ettinger.

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Dr. Joe Heim, UW-La Crosse Professor Emeritus, in the WIZM studio Tuesday, a week before the fall election cycle ends. Of course, the discussion hovered around those races — including the 3rd US House District between Brad Pfaff and Derrick Van Orden. With Gov. Tony Evers in town at UW-L we discussed whether campaign stops to get college students to vote is worth it. We also discussed campaign spending, the partisan races that could be nonpartisan, and a potential change of guard of the committee in Wisconsin that controls elections.

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Onalaska School Superintendent Todd Antony in the WIZM studio Monday to talk about the district's two referendum questions on the ballot. One question is a five-year operational question which essentially is to pay for day-to-day operations. The other is a $75 million capital referendum for building updates to both the middle and high school.

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La Crosse County Democratic Party chair William Garcia in studio. Discussed a variety of topics, including people's attention spans, social media/news notifications and student reading scores to start. Also had to hit on some Halloween theme topics including, not just what you're handing out to trick-or-treaters, but how you're delivering that candy — if it is candy, for those toothbrush folks out there. Ended the show going over the texts.

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UW-La Crosse public administration professor John Kovari made his WIZM debut, and helped try to explain the recent tax revaluation in the city of La Crosse — and elsewhere — and what that means for people's property tax bill. In the midst of that discussion, Kovari uses a Big Mac analogy. And, in no relation to that analogy, Kovari also talks a bit about taxing our vices, including Wisconsin legalizing recreational marijuana.

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