Good morning and happy belated Labor Day to you. We hope you relaxed and enjoyed and remembered why you have the day off in the first place. We open the show with a story out of Abbotsford, WI. It's not a metropolitan mecca, it's not the epicenter of glitz and glamor, but it's a place where 2,275 people call home, and community. In other news, firefighters in Washington state had to stop doing their jobs, and you'll absolutely guess why. Then, we welcome Todd Allbaugh is our guest and he talks about the vice president's visit to La Crosse last week and the words of "help" he had to offer the people of Milwaukee.

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