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La Crosse County Clerk Ginny Dankmeyer on WIZM broke down election day, what she thought of voter turnout and the processes that happen next. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Spent most of the show on the referendum by the La Crosse School District's to build a new high school for $194.7 million not passing. WIZM's Brad Williams broke down the news conference the district had Wednesday. We also worked in La Crosse County clerk Ginny Dankmeyer and her post-election day hangover to discuss how everything went and what's left to do, including a possible La Crosse County s...

Wisconsin Democracy Campaign executive director Matt Rothschild joined (24:00) to talk about the money floating around Wisconsin politics, as the governor's race has the most money in the U.S. Began the show, however, just breaking down election day, which included a quick elections update (20:45) La Crosse County Clerk Ginny Dankmeyer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

County clerk Ginny Dankmeyer on La Crosse Talk PM at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday for a quick elections update.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

La Crosse Mayor Mitch Reynolds in studio Monday covering a lot of ground. Spent the first part of the show talking about the homeless situation and, perhaps not related, the messaging around a person who died in the park last week. Discussed the La Crosse School District plan some more, and how that will affect the city. In relation to that — and homelessness — we hit on affordable housing in the...

UW-La Crosse political science professor, Anthony Chergosky, Ph. D. in studio, as the midterm election season winds down. Part of that discussion was polling on whether the Tuesday election day should be a holiday or a paid holiday. Also talked Bernie Sanders at UW-La Crosse and these figures who are phenomenons to political scientists. Democratic US House candidate Jeff Ettinger joined for a few,...

A year ago, the Senate accidentally passed permanent Daylight Savings — so we wouldn't change our clocks in November or ever again. It's sitting in the US House for passage. Congressman Ron Kind, who's retiring after 26 years, joined to talk about that, some of the things the House has done to combat inflation and why he thinks Brad Pfaff is right for his job. Before that, UW-L Outreach Specialist...

La Crosse Homeless Services coordinator, Brian Sampson, joined the show, as the city's campground designation at Houska Park came to an end this week, but the move out of that has yet to begin. Before that, however, US House Rep., Republican Brad Finstad hopes to continue in office, after a special election this summer. He's running against Democrat Jeff Ettinger. See omnystudio.com/listener for p...

Dr. Joe Heim, UW-La Crosse Professor Emeritus, in the WIZM studio Tuesday, a week before the fall election cycle ends. Of course, the discussion hovered around those races — including the 3rd US House District between Brad Pfaff and Derrick Van Orden. With Gov. Tony Evers in town at UW-L we discussed whether campaign stops to get college students to vote is worth it. We also discussed campaign spe...

Onalaska School Superintendent Todd Antony in the WIZM studio Monday to talk about the district's two referendum questions on the ballot. One question is a five-year operational question which essentially is to pay for day-to-day operations. The other is a $75 million capital referendum for building updates to both the middle and high school. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

La Crosse County Democratic Party chair William Garcia in studio. Discussed a variety of topics, including people's attention spans, social media/news notifications and student reading scores to start. Also had to hit on some Halloween theme topics including, not just what you're handing out to trick-or-treaters, but how you're delivering that candy — if it is candy, for those toothbrush folks out...

UW-La Crosse public administration professor John Kovari made his WIZM debut, and helped try to explain the recent tax revaluation in the city of La Crosse — and elsewhere — and what that means for people's property tax bill. In the midst of that discussion, Kovari uses a Big Mac analogy. And, in no relation to that analogy, Kovari also talks a bit about taxing our vices, including Wisconsin legal...

Tim Dale is a UW-La Crosse political science professor who specializes in political philosophy and American politics. We spent the hour talking about how unique Wisconsin voters are when it comes to statewide races and, basically, how unpredictable they can be. We also discussed debates, voter turnout and took some calls. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

La Crosse County Board Vice Chair Kim Cable joined to talk about homelessness in the area. Cable is also Couleecap’s Housing and Community Services Director. Cable talked about why the homeless situation has grown to unprecedented numbers. What she thinks of the Houska Park "campground" plan, that's one week from ending, and what the county is doing both short- and long-term to help people who are...

Samantha Williams is the director of the climate and clean energy program of the Midwest Region for the NRDC. She joined for the hour to talk about the transition to clean energy and why we — people of Earth — need to do it now. Those transitions start at the top with utility companies and trickle down from there, with things like home heating/cooling and transportation. See omnystudio.com/listene...

UW-La Crosse political science professor, Anthony Chergosky, Ph. D, in the WIZM studio Friday. Kicked off the show way too serious on a local debate and how schools should be funded. Lightened it up after that discussing Halloween movies and where horror movies stand in a political light. Then we dived into the politics and policy of trying to solve homelessness, after the La Crosse County Board a...

UW-La Crosse Outreach Specialist Spencer Wilken in the WIZM studio to talk science. We dove into why there’s a mass die-off of snow crabs and the harvest has been halted for a year in Alaska. We also talked about NASA crashing a drone into an asteroid and new, haunting James Webb telescope images. Wrapped up talking about why mosquitoes may like you more than others and flustered Spencer by trying...

Wisconsin state Sen. Brad Pfaff in the WIZM studio. Pfaff is also running for the US House of Representatives in the 3rd District and we bounced between state and federal issues on manufacturing, inflation, jobs, among other things. After that, La Crosse Police Chief Shawn Kudron called in to talk about the Community Resource Unit, which will be on display for the state this week. The CRU is basic...

La Crosse Mayor Mitch Reynolds on WIZM Tuesday to talk about the city’s tax revaluation and what that means for your property tax bill. Those assessments should be in residents’ mailboxes now. Before that, La Crosse Center director Art Fahey joined, two days before he’s officially retired after 32 years on the job — 22 as director. We did some reminiscing on La Crosse Talk PM about past shows at t...

Began the show recapping the Charlie Berens experience over the weekend. The comedian performed two sold out shows at the La Crosse Center. After that, ranted quick about the Hy-Vee opening and the fact that there are now three Starbucks in one block in La Crosse. Ended talking about downtown cameras with La Crosse Police Sgt. Brooke Pataska. The city and police want to raise $50,000 to install mo...

Wisconsin state Assembly Rep. Steve Doyle in studio. Along with representing the 95th District, Doyle is also a La Crosse County Board member. Part of the discussion was county referendum going on the November ballot, which led to a Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers special session on the state having binding referendum. We also discussed the state's predicted $5 billion budget surplus and school referend...

UW-La Crosse political science professor, Dr. Anthony Chergosky, in studio. Kicked off the show talking about whether there should be crowds at political debates, as the Mandela Barnes-Ron Johnson faceoff had the night before. Later in the show, we discussed how politicians are prepared, yet not quite prepared enough, to answer softball, "Say something nice about your opponent?" question. In betwe...

Long-time Central Spanish teacher John Havlicek in studio. Highlight of the show was brainstorming ways to make debates a little more entertaining — like, perhaps, more like a game show. Started and ended the show talking about teaching and the demand/strain on teachers right now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After ranting for a bit on a bit of everything from inflation to Oktoberfest to voting, we bring on Chris Haskell, the chair of the Voter Services Committee at the League of Women Voters in La Crosse. She talked about how the Davis brothers, Johnny and Jordan, showed the initiative to help with a "get out the vote" campaign, with the mid-terms less than a month away now. Johnny Davis currently pla...

La Crosse Mayor Mitch Reynolds in studio. Spent a majority of the time on three big topics. One of those, the La Crosse Police Department's Community Resource Unit, which could be highlighted next week for a statewide convention hosted at the La Crosse Center. Also detailed an affordable-housing plan the city council's voting on and comparing that to a plan from 2017. Lastly, the city's about to s...