La Crosse Talk PM WIZM

Started the show ranting about Daylight Saving, before Viterbo biology professor and immunologist, Dr. Chris Mayne, talked some of the recent news in the COVID-19 pandemic, including 5-11-year-old vaccinations and getting a booster.

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La Crosse County board chair Monica Kruse joined to discuss them passing a study committee at looking into creating a police oversight board, as well as passing the 2022 budget.

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La Crosse Mayor Mitch Reynolds joined. Started off listening to Rick rant about Aaron Rodgers. After that, got into city issues and spent a majority of the final half of the show discussing the homeless situation in La Crosse. Reynolds not happy with state government essentially ignoring the issue.

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UW-La Crosse political science professor, Dr. Anthony Chergosky, in studio, to discuss the Build Back Better social infrastructure bill and how Democrats really don't do a great job promoting. Also hit on how we consume news, Joe Biden and the Wisconsin election investigation.

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Wisconsin Democracy Campaign's Matt Rothschild joined. We talked about buying politicians, continuing election investigations and ignoring citizens when it comes to how Wisconsin determines who represents them in office.

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She wants Ron Kind's seat in Congress. Rebecca Cooke joined, running for the 3rd Congressional District. Cooke's a small business owner, runs a nonprofit for women entrepreneurs and grew up on a Dairy Farm. If she were a Navy Seal, she'd have all the boxes checked. We talked about about healthcare, broadband, water, the Build Back Better plan in Congress now and her opponents, Democrats Brad Pfaff and Brett Knudsen, and Republican Derrick Van Orden.

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La Crosse County District Attorney Tim Gruenke in studio. We talked about communities not charging and not even pulling people over for basic traffic violations. Also hit on where La Crosse County is at with a Police Board or oversight board. And we talked about the judge in the Rittenhouse case and some homicide cases coming up in the county.

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Al Bliss, from Alliance to Heal, joined to talk about drugs, overdoses and deaths in La Crosse County and what they're doing to help bring those numbers down. After that, city council member Chris Woodard joined to talk about a big vote Tuesday on a $15 million plan for affordable apartments, including some dedicated to the unsheltered.

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UW-La Crosse political science professor, Dr. Anthony Chergosky joins. Along with all things Halloween candy, we do talk about the terrible optics Democrats create around Biden's Build Back Better plan and how Congress removes things in the bill that they literally have as part of their job.

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La Crosse Fire Chief Ken Gilliam joined. Along with talking about best-worst Halloween candies, we did discuss things like electric fire trucks, the new speed bumps in front of the La Crosse Center and bringing the giant rig to call like a heart attack, as opposed to a fire.

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