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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Senior Research Associate with Wisconsin Policy Forum Ari Brown joins Kristin and Brian to discuss a report her authored regarding a decrease in opioid deaths in Wisconsin and its correlation with the recent distribution of settlement funds. Brown explains what they uncovered from their report, trends they’ve seen within the last year revolving opioid and fentanyl usage and deaths, what settlements were reached in Wisconsin and local government and state health departments are using their money. Then it's been decades since a homeless 29-year-old Silver Jenkins was found dead in the Eau Claire Jail. An investigation was conduction was complete in August of 2003, however; the Wisconsin Department of Justice still has not released the review. Frank Zufall has been reporting on the story through the Criminal Justice Reporting Project with The Wisconsin Examiner. Zufall shares with Kristin and Brian what he has uncovered through his reporting and what other findings have come to light since the incident.

Today on Spinning the State:

Oshkosh: New exhibition at Paine Art Center will focus on Native American basketmaking.

Milwaukee: Milwaukee School of Engineering is building a new A.I. learning Center.

Today on Spanning the State Kristin and Brian discuss President Trump’s Joint Resolution of Congress. They also discuss his recent remarks regarding a “Crypto Strategic Reserve” built from five different digital assets. David Krause Emeritus Associate Professor of Finance at Marquette University later joins Kristin and Brian to further breakdown Trump’s executive order to establishing the Working Group on Digital Asset Markets, which is tasked with evaluating the creation of a strategic stockpile of national digital assets. Krause explains what a crypto reserve will look like, how the U.S. will afford it, what are the benefits and other concerns we should be aware of. Later Peer Specialist Program Manager for Access to Independence, Gaochi Vang joins the show to discuss their initiative to bring their program of getting advice and support from professionals to Wisconsin prisons. Vang explains how this program was introduced to prisons, how their certification training works, success stories from their initiative as well as where else this program is being utilized. Kristin and Brian then circle back to President Donald Trump’s Joint Resolution of Congress and share their thoughts on the state of decorum when conducting official government meetings, hearings and events.