Spanning The State

Kristin and Brian get emotional and react to the breaking news of the mas shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School in Madison. They speak to WTMJ's Adam Roberts for more information. Later they speak to Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic and her husband Randy join to talk more about their new children's book that focuses on graphs and data and gets kids more excited about math. Then drone pilot and pho...

Best-Selling author, Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic talks to Kristin and Brian about their current work on bringing concepts of data and graphs to children in a new book “Daphne Draws Data”.

WTMJ Reporter Adam Roberts joins Kristin and Brian to give an update on the mass shooting at Madison's Abundant Life Christian School. He shares more information on what we know, the victims, and more.

Kristin Brey, the founder of As Goes Wisconsin, and longtime WTMJ host Brian Noonan are skilled at taking the complex and making it digestible. They will take you behind the headlines of the day’s biggest stories from across Wisconsin. Fans will hear the stories being told by those who live and cover those communities firsthand for the most accurate and relevant information.

Today on Spinning the State: Manitowoc - Ice boat exhibit. Green Lake - Kayakers wife files for divorce. Barron - Avian flu confirmed on Turkey farm.

Kristin Brey, the founder of As Goes Wisconsin, and longtime WTMJ host Brian Noonan are skilled at taking the complex and making it digestible. They will take you behind the headlines of the day’s biggest stories from across Wisconsin. Fans will hear the stories being told by those who live and cover those communities firsthand for the most accurate and relevant information.

Political Power Half Hour with Steve Scaffidi - Steve Scaffidi is back in the studio with Kristin and Brian for the Political Power Half Hour. Today they discuss what the first two weeks after President-Elect Donald Trump's Inauguration will look like for the American public. They share their thoughts on his current cabinet appointments like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his current stance on removing...

Kristin Brey, the founder of As Goes Wisconsin, and longtime WTMJ host Brian Noonan are skilled at taking the complex and making it digestible. They will take you behind the headlines of the day’s biggest stories from across Wisconsin. Fans will hear the stories being told by those who live and cover those communities firsthand for the most accurate and relevant information.

Adoption Coordinator for Jack’s Playground Animal Rescue, Ella Morice joins the show to share more about the upcoming fundraiser this Sunday at the Enlightened Brewery in Milwaukee. Morice explains what neonatal is, how they help save these animals, and the state of animal adoption now.

Today on Spinning the State: DeForest - Study committee recommends bill linking sandhill crane hunt to aid for farmers. Madison - Madison- More residential street to have 20mph speed limit. Milwaukee - “Flight to the North Pole” takes off Saturday.

Kristin Brey, the founder of As Goes Wisconsin, and longtime WTMJ host Brian Noonan are skilled at taking the complex and making it digestible. They will take you behind the headlines of the day’s biggest stories from across Wisconsin. Fans will hear the stories being told by those who live and cover those communities firsthand for the most accurate and relevant information.

Lead Pastor at the St. John’s Lutheran Church Reverend Peter Beeson, talks to Kristin and Brian about the how they are demolishing and voluntarily converting one of Madison’s oldest churches into a 130-unit low-income affordable housing complex.

Mario Koran, Investigative Reporter for Wisconsin Watch joins Spanning the State to dissect the Wisconsin’s Prison and Correctional Department request of $463,000 per year for per year to go to the Lincoln Hills Youth Prison. Koran shares more information on th past of the prison, the average cost to incarcerate a juvenile in and out of the state, and what efforts the state plans to make to change...

Kristin Brey, the founder of As Goes Wisconsin, and longtime WTMJ host Brian Noonan are skilled at taking the complex and making it digestible. They will take you behind the headlines of the day’s biggest stories from across Wisconsin. Fans will hear the stories being told by those who live and cover those communities firsthand for the most accurate and relevant information.

The Wisconsin State Park System is celebrating a big milestone in 2025: 125 years since the opening of the first state park in northwestern Wisconsin, Interstate State Park. Missy VanLanduyt Chief of the Recreation Partnership Section for the DNR tells Kristin and Brian more about the major milestone birthday, the history behind the department and how they plan to celebrate.

Wisconsin is falling behind when it comes to protecting children from vaccine-preventable diseases, like Polio, Measles, Mumps, Rubella and more. Professor and UW-Madison Chair in the Department of Life Sciences Communications, Dominique Brossard joins Spanning the State to share more elaborate on how vaccine hesitancy, how the new presidential administration will impact policies about vaccines an...

Today on Spinning the State: Milwaukee - New Hallmark Christmas Movie set in Milwaukee. Lake Hallie - Health cooperative hopes to reopen Chippewa Falls hospital next yea. La Crosse - Kwik Trip releases holiday merchandise.

Kristin Brey, the founder of As Goes Wisconsin, and longtime WTMJ host Brian Noonan are skilled at taking the complex and making it digestible. They will take you behind the headlines of the day’s biggest stories from across Wisconsin. Fans will hear the stories being told by those who live and cover those communities firsthand for the most accurate and relevant information.

Associate Professor of Law at UW-Madison and Criminal Law and Procedure Expert, Cecelia Klingele joins the show to talk further about the lack of body cams worn by the police. Currently Madison is the biggest city in the Midwest that doesn’t require their officers. Now due to a new pilot project, Police Chief Shon Barnes is requesting city funding to implement these devices. Professor Klingele sha...

The Fabulous Farm Babe and Host of the Midwest Farm Report, Pam Jahnke joins Spanning the State to chat all things farm related in Wisconsin. She tells Kristin and Brian about her interview with Joan Ballweg, how farmers could lose billions from Trump’s Trade war, as well as a new nationwide testing ordered from USDA for Bird Flu in milk products amid a rise in human cases and more.

Kristin Brey, the founder of As Goes Wisconsin, and longtime WTMJ host Brian Noonan are skilled at taking the complex and making it digestible. They will take you behind the headlines of the day’s biggest stories from across Wisconsin. Fans will hear the stories being told by those who live and cover those communities firsthand for the most accurate and relevant information.

Today on Spinning the State: Oshkosh - Advance tickets on sale for EAA. Sturgeon Bay - Listeners can run the radio station for charity. Green Bay - Bay Beach Wildlife sanctuary gets $500,000 grant.

During the holidays many are used to some season’s staples like Christmas Trees, holiday lights, snowflakes and of course the Red Kettle campaign. Salvation Army Commissioner Kenneth Hodder joins Spanning the State for Giving Tuesday to talk about their infamous campaign, the other ways the Salvation Army supports the community, “Fisk Johnson Match Day” and more.

Founding Director of the University of Wisconsin-Superior’s Transportation and Logistics Research Center, Richard Stewart joins Spanning the State to continue the conversation on how tariffs under the Trump Administration. He shares how this will impact the port of Duluth-Superior, what supply chain scenarios we should prepare for, and how will the rest of the state be affected.

Who said Christmas can’t also be spooky? The Rave/Eagles Club says otherwise as they are a few days away from their annual Haunted Holidays Tours. Operations Director, Colin O’Connell joins the show to chat about some of the spooks that can be found, the haunted history of the Eagles Club, how they’ve evolved the tour since 2020 COVID-19 outbreak and more. The tour is available this weekend and ne...