Last week Gov. Tony Evers signed a bill that will provide consistent funding for Wisconsin’s Citizen Utility Board. Next week a moratorium on utility shut offs will be lifted. We discuss this news and learn about consumer advocacy with the board’s executive director.

Last week Gov. Tony Evers signed a bill that will provide consistent funding for Wisconsin’s Citizen Utility Board. Next week a moratorium on utility shut offs will be lifted. We discuss this news and learn about consumer advocacy with the board’s executive director.

As immunizations continue we check in on the economic recovery for the retail industry. Then, we learn about a project in Iowa that transforms waterways with dams into recreation spots.

A panel of medical experts now recommend that a wider array of smokers receive annual lung cancer screenings. We discuss the shift in screening practices with a pulmonologist and radiologist from UW Health.

A panel of medical experts now recommend that a wider array of smokers receive annual lung cancer screenings. We discuss the shift in screening practices with a pulmonologist and radiologist from UW Health.

We hear about the atrocities of the palm oil industry from an investigative reporter who recently won an award for their work uncovering labor abuses by manufacturers. Then, we dig into the ethics and logistics behind so-called vaccine passports.

Earth is quickly approaching a point of no return with global warming, climate change and harm done to the environment. In her new book “Under a White Sky,” Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert explores extreme ideas and out-of-the-box thinking to reverse course and repair the planet.

On this edition with Mondays with Mike, we talk about Simply Folk's search for a new host after Dan Robinson announced he would step down. Then, Mike Crane, Director of WPR, fills us in on other programming changes, upcoming events, special coverage and more.

We learn about new legislation aimed at establishing so-called "micro-schools" from the Republican representative who wrote the bill. Then, we hear from the top Democrat in the Assembly about the state Supreme Court recently negating the governor's mask mandate.

During the Great Depression, the United States created a civilian conservation corps to develop natural areas and resources. We talk with two conservationists who are now promoting a similar idea with the goals of putting people back to work, fighting climate change, and connecting people to nature.