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Today on Spinning the State:

DeForest - Study committee recommends bill linking sandhill crane hunt to aid for farmers.

Madison - Madison- More residential street to have 20mph speed limit.

Milwaukee - “Flight to the North Pole” takes off Saturday.

Kristin Brey, the founder of As Goes Wisconsin, and longtime WTMJ host Brian Noonan are skilled at taking the complex and making it digestible. They will take you behind the headlines of the day’s biggest stories from across Wisconsin. Fans will hear the stories being told by those who live and cover those communities firsthand for the most accurate and relevant information.

Lead Pastor at the St. John’s Lutheran Church Reverend Peter Beeson, talks to Kristin and Brian about the how they are demolishing and voluntarily converting one of Madison’s oldest churches into a 130-unit low-income affordable housing complex.

Mario Koran, Investigative Reporter for Wisconsin Watch joins Spanning the State to dissect the Wisconsin’s Prison and Correctional Department request of $463,000 per year for per year to go to the Lincoln Hills Youth Prison. Koran shares more information on th past of the prison, the average cost to incarcerate a juvenile in and out of the state, and what efforts the state plans to make to change juvenile justice.

Kristin Brey, the founder of As Goes Wisconsin, and longtime WTMJ host Brian Noonan are skilled at taking the complex and making it digestible. They will take you behind the headlines of the day’s biggest stories from across Wisconsin. Fans will hear the stories being told by those who live and cover those communities firsthand for the most accurate and relevant information.

The Wisconsin State Park System is celebrating a big milestone in 2025: 125 years since the opening of the first state park in northwestern Wisconsin, Interstate State Park. Missy VanLanduyt Chief of the Recreation Partnership Section for the DNR tells Kristin and Brian more about the major milestone birthday, the history behind the department and how they plan to celebrate.

Wisconsin is falling behind when it comes to protecting children from vaccine-preventable diseases, like Polio, Measles, Mumps, Rubella and more. Professor and UW-Madison Chair in the Department of Life Sciences Communications, Dominique Brossard joins Spanning the State to share more elaborate on how vaccine hesitancy, how the new presidential administration will impact policies about vaccines and more.

Today on Spinning the State:

Milwaukee - New Hallmark Christmas Movie set in Milwaukee.

Lake Hallie - Health cooperative hopes to reopen Chippewa Falls hospital next yea.

La Crosse - Kwik Trip releases holiday merchandise.

Kristin Brey, the founder of As Goes Wisconsin, and longtime WTMJ host Brian Noonan are skilled at taking the complex and making it digestible. They will take you behind the headlines of the day’s biggest stories from across Wisconsin. Fans will hear the stories being told by those who live and cover those communities firsthand for the most accurate and relevant information.

Associate Professor of Law at UW-Madison and Criminal Law and Procedure Expert, Cecelia Klingele joins the show to talk further about the lack of body cams worn by the police. Currently Madison is the biggest city in the Midwest that doesn’t require their officers. Now due to a new pilot project, Police Chief Shon Barnes is requesting city funding to implement these devices. Professor Klingele shares more about this new request, the current status of police in Madison, what else they learned from the pilot test and more.