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Reminding Our Legislators: Supporting Our Schools Is Issue No. 1

“Stop playing political games” — that’s the message Heather DuBois Bourenane delivered to the Wisconsin Legislature on our radio show this week.

DuBois Bourenane spoke to us after a few hundred citizen-lobbyists roamed the state Capitol on Tuesday with messages of support for public schools, health care, child care, and other priorities that were repeatedly mentioned during last month’s public hearings before the Joint Finance Committee.

A coalition of groups organized the event, centered on a request of Gov. Tony Evers: If the Republican version of a state budget bill doesn’t adequately fund these important public services, veto the entire budget bill instead of trying to fix it with partial vetoes.

Reminding Our Legislators: Supporting Our Schools Is Issue No. 1

Republicans Call Out Trump’s Bad Behavior

Embarrassed and weary of Donald Trump's insults and treatment of groups of people, former Republican Lt. Gov. of Georgia Geoff Duncan, along with others in the group Republicans for Harris, brought warnings throughout Wisconsin. He says they're tired of making excuses for Trump's poor behavior.

🎥 /✏️ : Salina Heller

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Republicans Call Out Trump’s Bad Behavior

More Job Cuts in Wisconsin

Now that President-elect Donald Trump and other Republicans who ran on a platform of calling immigration an “invasion” have won their elections, the question turns to what kinds of policies they can actually pass in the next Congress—and do so without damaging an economy that depends on migrant labor for its stability.

The American Business Immigration Coalition is made up of more than 1,400 business members calling for immigration reform that is “sensible, economically important, politically smart, and morally right.” ABIC States Director Connor Gallivan said Monday on UpNorthNews Radio there are many ways to come at the challenge of immigration reform and border security—and one wrong way: mass deportation, something that would cripple nearly every sector of the US economy.

Gallivan said even if every American citizen without a job were to become employed, there would still be two million open jobs available.

✏️: Pat Kreitlow

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More Job Cuts in Wisconsin

Gov. Tony Evers welcomed news that Eli Lilly is going to invest $3-4 billion in a Kenosha County

SMART INVESTMENTS - Gov. Tony Evers welcomed news that Eli Lilly is going to invest $3-4 billion in a Kenosha County facility based on injectable drugs, such as Mounjaro.

It’s a project that got its start in 2019, when the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation awarded $1.5 million to a smaller company, Nexus Pharmaceuticals.

Pat Kreitlow takes us through the timeline to show how the state’s investment paid off in a much better way compared to how former Gov. Scott Walker was prepared to give billions of taxpayer dollars to Foxconn in that same part of the state.

✏️: Pat Kreitlow

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Gov. Tony Evers welcomed news that Eli Lilly is going to invest $3-4 billion in a Kenosha County

Brad Woodhouse, with Protect Our Care, reacts to Trump’s healthcare nominees

Brad Woodhouse, with Protect Our Care, reacts to Trump’s healthcare nominees, raising concerns about their records and commitment to the health and wellbeing of the American people.

Interviewed on UpNorthNews Radio, Woodhouse outlined several concerning figures beyond Robert Kennedy, Jr., the nominee of President-elect Trump to be secretary of health and human services, and Dr. Mehmet Oz, whose TV-friendly health advice is frequently incomplete or dangerous.

For example, former Florida congressman Dave Weldon, someone who, like Kennedy, shares anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, is Trump’s choice to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Marty Makary, Trump’s pick to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, embraced a view of the COVID-19 virus that would let many more sick and elderly people die so that younger, healthy people would contract COVID more quickly and build up immunity.

Former Fox News personality Janette Nesheiwat, Trump’s choice for Surgeon General, has spread anti-trans rhetoric and regularly promote dietary supplements she formulates and sells online.

And Jay Bhattacharya, Trump’s pick to be director of the National Institutes of Health, said COVID’s risks were overstated and called for a weakening of safety protocols in a pandemic that would go on to take the lives of more than 1 million Americans.

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Brad Woodhouse, with Protect Our Care, reacts to Trump’s healthcare nominees

Wisconsin Crowd Cheers to Bernie’s “Health Care is a Human Right”

BERNIE'S MESSAGE 📣 “Instead of a government of the people, by the people and for the people, we have now become a government of the billionaire class, for the billionaire class."

That's what Sen. Bernie Sanders told crowds in Wisconsin. Sanders is bringing his Fighting Oligarchy tour to key battleground states across the country, also rallying for expanded Social Security, Medicare, and free healthcare.

The packed crowd of 2,600 in Altoona last Saturday cheered and stood when Sanders said the US should guarantee healthcare to all people as a right.

🎥/✏️: Salina Heller

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Wisconsin Crowd Cheers to Bernie’s “Health Care is a Human Right”

All three finalists for the Patty Kaz Award are from the same school

THIS IS A REALLY BIG DEAL‼️ For just the second-time EVER — all THREE finalists for the Patty Kaz Award (the highest honor in college women’s hockey) are from the SAME school ❤️

The only other time that happened — all 3 finalists were from Minnesota (2013)!

Every year, the NCAA presents the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award to the top player in NCAA Division I women's ice hockey.

Selection criteria includes outstanding individual and team skills, sportsmanship, performance in the clutch, personal character, competitiveness, academic achievement, civic involvement, and a love of hockey.

This year’s winner will be announced March 22!

BADGER PRIDE x 3 ❤️❤️❤️

🎥: Wisconsin Women's Hockey
✏️: Christina Lorey

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All three finalists for the Patty Kaz Award are from the same school