Talked with Arianna Cirincione, she's a vet and the Veterans Program Coordinator at Coulee Recovery Center in La Crosse. An event there at noon Saturday is meant to help Afghan War veterans. Part of the discussion was how Vietnam veterans may be crucial to helping Afghanistan veterans recover, after seeing the US pullout of that country that gets immediately overrun. 

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She's a Democrat in a Legislature controlled by Republicans, Wisconsin state Assembly Rep. Jill Billings of La Crosse. Discussed how she tries to get bills passed in Madison as the minority party — but no, she's not bribing those on the other side of the aisle with gift cards. "That's illegal," she said.

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Talked about a slew of things, including a city council member's idea of just doing away with alternate-side parking in La Crosse. Talked about a slew of things, including a city council member's idea of just doing away with alternate-side parking in La Crosse. Also discussed some of the proposals going through committee, like the Fish Labs building in Riverside Park, as well as the new "speed bumps" in front of the La Crosse Center.

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Hit a bit of everything today with La Crosse Education Foundation president John Havlicek, from the misconstruing of Critical Race Theory to fit the "outrage agenda" to the benefits of teaching foreign language to students beginning at an early age -- something the state isn't mandating, while it tries to make cursive teaching mandatory. 

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UW-La Crosse political science professor, Dr. Anthony Chergosky joined. We discussed the errors retired conservative Supreme Court judge Gableman has made looking into the 2020 Biden-Trump election. Also talked about Ron Johnson's taxes and, most importantly, we discussed how long you'd sit in a doctor's exam room before you thought they forgot about you. 
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La Crosse Talk PM with Rick Solem

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Brett Knudsen is the only Democrat so far running to take Ron Kind's seat in the 3rd Congressional District of Wisconsin. We discussed issues with healthcare, broadband, immigration workforce and his likely opponent on the Republican side, Derrick Van Orden. 

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Steve Doyle, 94 District Assembly rep. here in the greater La Crosse area, joined to discuss cursive and civics classes mandates that just passed, banning critical race theory. We also discussed some legislation he's working on in helping kids get adopted, as well as the fight over redistricting in the state. After that, Coulee Recovery Center executive director Cheryl Hancock on the Turned Leaf Family Festival at Myrick Park on Saturday. 

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Wisconsin's Legislature sending a whole slew of bills through, including forcing schools to teach cursive, civics. Before we discussed that, however, Mayo's Dr. Jacob Erickson joined to preview an Oct. 9 symposium for parents and athletes revolving around youth sports and injury prevention. 

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Wisconsin state Sen. Brad Pfaff joined. We discussed his unique position of confirming Gov. Evers cabinet nominees, after he was part of that cabinet and "fired" by Republicans. Before that, we discussed a French Island "shooting" and Mayor Mitch Reynolds' drop-the-mic statement on Oktoberfest.

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UW-La Crosse political science professor Dr. Anthony Chergosky joins. We discussed how partisan politics are so bad, even Wisconsin's DNR is in a right-vs.-left battle. Also talked about 80-year-old's in government — Breyer on the US SUpreme Court and Grassley in US Senate — and how that's probably not great for anybody. Along those lines, Senate candidate Sarah Godlewski, in Wisconsin, called on Breyer to retire. Oh, and there was also a Flordia man story.

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