It’s a flaw in Wisconsin’s school funding formula that everyone’s known about for decades, yet nothing gets done about it: There are school districts with lakes and other features that lead to a handful of high-end properties, which reduces the amount of state aid even though most of the families and kids in the district live in lower-value households. Why are we still using land value to determine whether kids get a good education or not? We’ll talk to guests from Lake Holcombe, where the school district could shut down if a referendum fails to make up what’s lost in a terrible formula.

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A bunch of unqualified or underperforming white guys are giving the rest of us in the group a bad name. We’ll have the latest on the Keystone Cops’ group text, whose members all seem to be getting a free pass for treating national security like an inconvenience. And Wausau’s mayor is at it again, giving himself duties that may not exist—after removing City Hall keycard access for a city council member with whom he was having a disagreement. Also: This week’s Climate Check guest updates his work to connect folks in Wisconsin with the resources that can help them remodel their homes, create jobs, save money, and cut carbon use. 

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Lucy Ritzmann of Courier Newsroom tracks online spending in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. It's not just a big campaign for TV and radio commercials. Digital ads are everywhere. Also: Richard Trent, national executive director for Main Street Alliance, talks about President Trump's cuts that are harming small businesses and even getting some Republican members of Congress upset with him

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It’s already worthy of American History textbooks for being the dumbest group text ever—potentially the most dangerous. The vice president, the secretary of defense, the secretary of state, the director of national intelligence and other top officials planned a recent military strike in Yemen using a group text—which included a reporter accidentally added by the president’s national security advisor.

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The world’s richest man isn’t hiding it: He’s trying to bribe as many Wisconsin voters as he can, offering $100 as part of a publicity campaign for state Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel. But while $100 is nice to have in hand, does it come close to offsetting the drip-drip-drip of what Trump’s trade wars will do to Wisconsin wallets? We’ll talk to the chair of the UW-Eau Claire Economics Dept. about that. And we’ll play some audio from a recent legislative hearing about anti-trans bills—featuring an older gentleman who came to testify for the bills, but changed his mind after hearing from its many critics.

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With about a week to go until the state Supreme Court election, Brad Schimel lets go of any final pretenses to be anything moderate—thanking Donald Trump for his endorsement and certainly heeding the words of Sen. Ron Johnson who says Schimel will owe Elon Musk if he wins. And we’ll recap a busy weekend in sports. You might be thinking it’s all about basketball, but playoff hockey had most of the drama.

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We hear a lot that a Constitutional crisis is looming, but with President Trump’s defiance of judges’ orders, aren’t we already there? We’ll talk to a former US Attorney as part of our week-in-review panel.

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Twice in a week we’ve been singled out by a western Wisconsin congressman, this time because he wanted proper credit for wanting to threaten federal judges with impeachment. Now that we’re living in the congressman’s head rent-free, what do we do with the savings?

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Congressman Derrick Van Orden gets his 30 pieces of silver for contributing to the betrayal of a Constitution to which he once pledged his loyalty. The world’s richest man gave a substantial donation to each member of Congress who called for the impeachment of judges whose only “fault” was seeking to hold the president accountable to that same Constitution. Also: State Sen. Jeff Smith and new state Rep. Vinnie Miresse give us this week’s update from the state Capitol. 

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