UpNorthNews Radio with Pat Kreitlow

Mark Jacob talks to us about how Elon Musk has turned Twitter into a dumpster fire—and that fire is spewing a lot of information pollution. And as the Brewers head into their final regular season series, Dan Schumacher gets us looking ahead to the baseball playoffs and this weekend’s Packers-Vikings game.

UpNorthNews with Pat Kreitlow airs on several stations across the Civic Media radio network, Monday through Friday from 6-8 am. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! To learn more about the show and all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows to see the entire broadcast line up. Follow the show on Facebook, X, and Instagram to keep up with Pat & the show.

Keya Vakil gives us analysis of this week’s national news, including our country’s most dysfunctional Congress passing another short-term spending bill. Still, Sen. Ron Johnson and US Reps. Derrick Van Orden and Tom Tiffany voted against it, preferring a government shutdown with barely a month until a national election. In a separate story, Tiffany spread misinformation about a duplicate ballot situation in Wisconsin.

UpNorthNews with Pat Kreitlow airs on several stations across the Civic Media radio network, Monday through Friday from 6-8 am. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! To learn more about the show and all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows to see the entire broadcast line up. Follow the show on Facebook, X, and Instagram to keep up with Pat & the show.

A massive storm is forecast to slam into Florida and Georgia today—and while the focus is rightly on safety, there’s also a sports footnote about the uncertainty it brings to the Milwaukee Brewers’ playoff plans. And Our Women Win Wisconsin segment powered by Motherhood for Good visits with state Assembly candidate Alison Page. And Luke Mathers is back with plenty of vacation memories—we’re just jealous he got to leave the country long enough to take a break from election politics.

UpNorthNews with Pat Kreitlow airs on several stations across the Civic Media radio network, Monday through Friday from 6-8 am. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! To learn more about the show and all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows to see the entire broadcast line up. Follow the show on Facebook, X, and Instagram to keep up with Pat & the show.

We’ll have an update on the Wausau mayor who may face criminal and ethical investigations for taking it upon himself to remove an absentee ballot drop box without authorization. And Joe Zepecki has analysis of this week’s Wisconsin political happenings, or lack of happenings in the case of Eric Hovde who gave another predictably vanilla answer to a serious question about public safety.

UpNorthNews with Pat Kreitlow airs on several stations across the Civic Media radio network, Monday through Friday from 6-8 am. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! To learn more about the show and all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows to see the entire broadcast line up. Follow the show on Facebook, X, and Instagram to keep up with Pat & the show.

More Wisconsin school districts are getting into the daycare business—and with good reason. If parents have to travel to a neighboring community to find childcare, those children are likely going to start kindergarten in that other school district as well. We’ll talk to the superintendent for Alma Center-Humbird-Merrillan about their unique November referendum. Also: Reporter Elisabeth Montemurro tells us how Donald Trump’s promise to resume trade wars would hurt Wisconsin farmers—again.

UpNorthNews with Pat Kreitlow airs on several stations across the Civic Media radio network, Monday through Friday from 6-8 am. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! To learn more about the show and all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows to see the entire broadcast line up. Follow the show on Facebook, X, and Instagram to keep up with Pat & the show.

In this week’s Climate Check, we share the unique —and predictable— view from some of Ohio Sen. JD Vance’s constituents, that they hate the Biden-Harris Inflation Reduction Act and are going to vote for Donald Trump but are excited for the money, jobs, and economic future coming to their communities because of it.

UpNorthNews with Pat Kreitlow airs on several stations across the Civic Media radio network, Monday through Friday from 6-8 am. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! To learn more about the show and all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows to see the entire broadcast line up. Follow the show on Facebook, X, and Instagram to keep up with Pat & the show.

We get a return visit from Julie Lassa, state director for the USDA’s Rural Development arm, to learn about more investments the Biden-Harris administration is making for the rural Wisconsin economy. And Chad Holmes has a preview of his Wausau show that follows ours on Civic Media.

UpNorthNews with Pat Kreitlow airs on several stations across the Civic Media radio network, Monday through Friday from 6-8 am. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! To learn more about the show and all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows to see the entire broadcast line up. Follow the show on Facebook, X, and Instagram to keep up with Pat & the show.

UpNorthNews with Pat Kreitlow airs on several stations across the Civic Media radio network, Monday through Friday from 6-8 am. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! To learn more about the show and all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows to see the entire broadcast line up. Follow the show on Facebook, X, and Instagram to keep up with Pat & the show.

UpNorthNews with Pat Kreitlow airs on several stations across the Civic Media radio network, Monday through Friday from 6-8 am. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! To learn more about the show and all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows to see the entire broadcast line up. Follow the show on Facebook, X, and Instagram to keep up with Pat & the show.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) talks to us about what he's hearing while campaigning in Wisconsin on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris and Sen. Tammy Baldwin. And Salina Heller tells us how rural school districts are using a new approach to help themselves and their communities with the worsening shortage of affordable childcare options.

UpNorthNews with Pat Kreitlow airs on several stations across the Civic Media radio network, Monday through Friday from 6-8 am. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! To learn more about the show and all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows to see the entire broadcast line up. Follow the show on Facebook, X, and Instagram to keep up with Pat & the show.

We’ll hear from Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Sen. Tammy Baldwin from their Saturday visit to Richland County, where they made the case for rural voters to support Baldwin’s bid for reelection and Vice President Kamala Harris’ bid for the White House. Also: Some straight talk from Dr. Kristin Lyerly and Vice President Harris about abortion bans and maternal deaths. Plus we’ll catch up on the rest of the weekend’s headlines and mark this first full day of autumn—pumpkin spice for everyone!

We’ll hear from Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and Sen. Tammy Baldwin from their Saturday visit to Richland County, where they made the case for rural voters to support Baldwin’s bid for reelection and Vice President Kamala Harris’ bid for the White House. Also: Some straight talk from Dr. Kristin Lyerly and Vice President Harris about abortion bans and maternal deaths. Plus we’ll catch up on the rest of the weekend’s headlines and mark this first full day of autumn—pumpkin spice for everyone!