The Founding Editor of UpNorthNews, Pat was a familiar presence on radio and TV stations in western Wisconsin before serving in the state Legislature. After a brief stint living in the Caribbean, Pat and wife returned to Chippewa Falls to be closer to their growing group of grandchildren. He now serves as Chief Political Correspondent and occasional pontoon captain.
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If Republicans slash the Farm Bill, rural Wisconsin will be hit in many ways
The Farm Bill—reviewed and renewed every five years by Congress—is the main funder of rural economic development, which helps local governments, small businesses, and families in Wisconsin.
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Van Orden is silent on Republican plans to cut $50 billion from the Farm Bill
The 3rd District Republican, who sits on the House Agriculture Committee, has little to say about slashing support for the crucial legislation that impacts farmers, consumers, and the environment.
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Do January 6 ‘spectators’ deserve any benefit of the doubt? We doubt it.
Derrick Van Orden should be considered insurrection-adjacent and is fair game for questions about whether he’ll be part of any post-2024 election subversion.
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Hedge funds prey on communities. A new rule fights back.
The paper mill in Brokaw is long gone, but its demise triggered a campaign by Sen. Tammy Baldwin and others to tighten rules on hedge funds’ secret stock positions.
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Here’s one way to respond to book bans: Pass a law to ban book bans
Legislative Democrats introduce a measure that would prevent schools and other institutions from banning books based on the authors’ background, politics, or other views.
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Landmark lawsuit seeks to end taxpayer vouchers for private and religious schools
The complaint says a small experimental program in Milwaukee in the 1990s has been “transformed by our Legislature into a large and growing cancer” on public education.
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Unprecedented: GOP Senators fire several Evers appointees, after admitting they knew an earlier firing was bogus
The Natural Resources Board no longer had a quorum to meet. Two former legislators are among those fired. A domestic abuse survivor is dropped from a board because a senator didn’t like her tweets and asked if she was emotional and hated men.
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Despite record surplus, Republicans again reject childcare help for Wisconsin families
Gov. Tony Evers’ special session bill has been replaced with another tax cut geared toward higher incomes. Evers is responding with funding that will keep the childcare assistance coming into 2025. Republican legislators have dashed any remaining hopes that a fall legislative session would address critical workforce issues in Wisconsin—doing to Gov. Tony Evers’ proposal…
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Assembly Republicans pass anti-trans bills, despite Evers’ veto promise
The Assembly’s rush job—passing the bills two weeks after they were introduced–is in stark contrast to their refusal to consider bills that would provide a middle class tax cut and invest in childcare.
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Even after conservative former justices warn against it, Vos may still try to impeach Protasiewicz
Only a justice for two months, Protasiewicz has yet to hear a challenge to Republicans’ gerrymandered maps—but the Assembly Speaker is threatening impeachment if he doesn’t like how she rules on the case.
